Class art project

With a number of students out at various different school activities, today we worked on a class art project. All of the leftover art resources were put into the middle of the room and the class had to use the materials together to create a piece of art. The only instructions that I gave was that they had to work together to do it.

I then sat back and left them to it. For the first couple of minutes chaos reigned supreme but then Josef stepped up and began to organise the class. It took him some time to get the class under control but soon the class had voted for what they wanted to make, thanks to Liam organising that side of things.

 A caterpillar was decided upon. The class then organised themselves into groups and set about making different parts of the project.

The class then worked industriously at working on the various parts.

When the bell rang Jose organised everyone again to share what they had completed. Then the went back to work for the second half of the afternoon.

The caterpillar didn't quite get finished but that wasn't the purpose of the task. It was great to see the class actually sorting themselves out maturely and in an organised way. Children taking leadership roles while others listened and followed instructions. Here is the final result.

And finally a bit of reflection on the topic. What went well, what we need to work on.