What's happening at Peralta?

My CSF site is at Peralta Elementary School, I am most closely working with two 3rd grade classes. With these classes, my supervisor and I are in the process of making a stop motion animated video about recycling, that should be finished in several weeks. Also, for the past months the 3rd grade students have been working on in class project that includes text and photos, and now we are introducing bookmaking to compliment their photos. I designed a simple book making project where the students make a step- by-step instructional guide on how to fold paper correctly to achieve accordion style pages. The final product will be put into hard bound bindings that have been in the storage room for some time, and now will be put to use.

This year every grade level at Peralta Elementary are going on a field trip to the De Young Museum. I had the pleasure of going with the 4th and 5th grade classes, to take 8 4th graders on a self-guided tour of the museums California collection. This was especially exciting for me because it gave me the opportunity to research the these relics of California history, and teach the students about each piece. I was happy to find that all the students on my tour were engaged for the entire 2 hours that we spent in the gallery. The next step in the tour I did, is to take the information the student learned, and follow through to the classroom to do an art project incorporating California history.

That's all for now. I will inform all when the recycling video is completed. It may be put into a gallery show at some point in the near future.