Project calendar: October 2015 - June 2016
OCTOBER:
Show to children Magritte’s painting “the Great family” and ask them to think about their feelings observing the dove…(what do you think or feel looking at the painting?)
Introducing the topic “a journey through Art” to stimulate curiosity and imagination, enhance children’s sensibility and create a pathway to discover their emotions, linked to traditions and celebrations of different countries.
Let’s start with Magritte’s painting “La grande famille”.
On this picture children can create images.
Classes can choose a painting or a painter that will be cause for reflections and join local traditions or habits.
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NOVEMBER: From the characters to the creation of one or more stories. Students can start from the creation of individual characters (one for each pupil) followed by the creation of a cooperative story of class or of different stories for small groups. Each student will create a three-dimensional character with techniques and materials of choice (poor material such as cardboard, plastic bottles, or papier-mâché, wood, cloth, clay, etc.) and all the characters will be the protagonists of the final story (or stories). Thenes: the Peace in Ukraine and in the world, etc.
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DECEMBER:
From the stories invented by the students to the realization of the backgrounds to use as scenography. Pupils will be encouraged to make simple drawings A4 or A3 to represent their story. Pupils will transcribe the story in English, with the help of the teacher, preparing captions and any dialogues. Different forms of expression, with a theme that could be a flight that leads to the various involved countries.
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JANUARY
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JANUARY: Construction in class of a small theatre with poor material (cardboard boxes, paper, glue, tempera, etc.). A class will prepare a video tutorial to partner schools for the construction of this theater.
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FEBRUARY: Dramatization of stories designed by students in the classroom using the theater, the characters and their backdrops previously made; documentation of classroom activities and "dramatizations" using a digital video camera or a simple phone.
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MARCH
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MARCH: each class will choose local musical pieces (maybe linked to the age of local paintings) adapting them to the stories. Among the activities of the project: creating songs with children. Children will be free to create simple melodies or use songs, recorded by the teacher.
This music (or songs) will be the background for the play (thematic or local or classical music, representive of the countries or linked to local painters…)
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APRIL:
Making a “animated cartoon” with the class using Movie Maker or other software. Inserting videos previously recorded, images, texts, captions and melodies chosen by pupils as accompainment (or sounds recorded in classroom, also made with the support of simple musical instruments or body sounds). All schools will cooperate each other (for example, a school will prepare the story, another the musical backgrounds, another the backdrops and so on...).
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MAY:
All the multimedial works made by the different classes, backdrops, drawings, videos, sounds, scripts, characters, labels of the dramatizations will be shared to make a final cooperative work (cooperative animated cartoon), collecting all the stories and “dramatizations” in one unique “story”.
JUNE: Meta-reflection on the process and products created to focus the emotions aroused by paintings and come to the realization that emotions have no boundaries and are the same for all human beings: Art as a universal language.
Creating of a slogan or logo to communicate the expressive meaning of art and its universality (multimedia products to be shared on the TwinSpace). Final collaborative message (video, cartoon, song...) from all schools in different languages to ukrainian soldiers for the Peace in Ukraine and in the world.