My students need various Sharpie markers, craft sticks, an organizer for the markers, a hot glue gun, and mod podge to create character quilts out of craft sticks.
$380 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable," George Bernard Shaw said. Too many times art is taken out of school when it can easily be integrated into many lessons.
My students come from a high poverty neighborhood where more than 75% of them receive free or reduced-price lunch.
There are a very diverse range of home structures: nuclear, single parent, multiple-family, foster, migrant, and military, to name a few. Our students also come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, with a large portion being Hispanic, Punjabi and African American. Additionally, we have a large population of English Language Learners. With such diversity, it is to be expected that each student is going to have a very divergent range of personal, social, emotional, and educational needs when compared to schools that serve a more homogeneous population.
My Project
The students will be creating craft stick quilts using the materials requested. After we read our class book the students will take the craft sticks and write important quotes from the book about the main character using the ultra fine tipped Sharpies or draw symbols that represent the main character using the regular fine tip Sharpies. After students draw and write on their craft sticks they will then hot glue them down onto the other craft sticks to create a frame and to keep them together. We will use mod podge to seal the craft sticks so they do not smear or get ruined. We will then display their craft stick quilts on our wall for a display and a discussion point. The markers will be stored in the six canister carousels to help keep them organized and make sure they don't get lost. This project will cause the students to think critically about the main character while they analyze the character and find the most important details.
Currently in education there has been a stress on placed on achieving state test scores while art, sadly, has been dramatically reduced due to insufficient time.
However, with creative planning, this project intertwines art with the core curriculum and allows students to experience the creative side of learning. This enrichment will only help students to better study and understand all their classes!
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