Week five

Today the groups started drawing their designs onto the cement board. Some of the students helped me break the sheets of glass. For the blog entry I asked the students, "How does it feel to start working with the glass and the cement board? Are you excited or scared? Do you want to change your design at all?"

Zeyry: I am both excited and scared. The thing I am excited is finishing it. But also I am scared because  maybe the glass parts are not going to fit and I think I will not change my design because it pretty just the way it is.

Ana: Im excited to start designing a mural after a hard time working on the sketch. Finally we're working on it. I wanna start and yeah maybe I will change some things but finally were gonna start working on the mural.

Charline: I think I feel good to start working on the glass and the cement board cause we were getting ready a long time. I feel excited to do the glass thing.

Stephanie: No I don't (want to change the design). I am excited to start and happy to finish it and put a lot of color and is going to be beautiful.

Jackie: I feel excited about working with glass. I am fine with my design.

Amy: I'm excited because I want to see how it's going to look at the end. I like our design but maybe add something. I want to know everyone's idea and to see how it's going to look in our school. I think it's going to  be great.

Estefany: I feel excited because we finally move to the final design and I don't want to change nothing.

Week four

Today the students continued working on their designs. We also played games to fill time. Next week I bring the mosaic supplies and we start to break things and work on the actual murals. We are all very excited.

Week Three

This week we reviewed the ideas from the week before. Then I gave the kids some posterboard, pencils and markers and in teams the created some designs. The posterboard designs bring us a step closer to final designs for the actual mosaic wall murals. I feel like we got really far this week and we are possibly ready to present some of these ideas to the principal. For the blog entry I asked the students, "How do you feel about the class so far? Are we going too fast or too slow?" and, "What part of the project are you most looking forward to?"

Charline, Estefany, and Jackie:
Charline had a sudden inspiration of drawing a globe with people standing around it and words in the middle. The three girls worked hard on this wonderful poster and put some thought into what to write in the middle.

Their blog responses:
Charline: Prreeaattyy Good. Well I think my group is going far because  we are working as a team. (Looking forward) to make the mosaic & having fun.
Estefany: I am going fast because my group is almost done. (Looking forward to) making the mosaic.
Jackie: I feel fine b/c we are doing fun things and we are going just fine. (Looking forward to) finishing the mosaic.


Ana and Rochelle:
These two like the idea of a city of Minneapolis silhouette.

Their blog responses:
Ana: We're doing good because I'm likein the class and I'm havin fun. I'm looking forward to do the mosaic.
Rochelle: I feel good b/c im learning how were gonna do the picture for the school. In between.
(Looking forward to) Decorating the picture.

Amy and Zeyry:
They are one of two teams working on a design that includes the school mascot. I really like the vine border and flower corners. The people the drew are fun, too.

Their blog responses:
Amy: I feel good it OK because we are going step by step. (Looking forward to) when we work on glueing, cutting pieces and seeing it when its done.
Zeyry: Slow because were doing everything step by step by takeing our time. (Looking forward to) well, drawing I guess because I love drawing. It my talent, my passion.

Aaliyah:
Aaliyah has a real talent for drawing. She took a blank posterboard and just started drawing and coloring free-hand.

Her blog response: It is very fun, I look forward to drawing.

Angel and Charly:
These guys teamed up to work on a poster that includes the school mascot and motto.

Their blog entries:
Angel: We are going normal. (Looking forward to) the mosaic.
Charley: We are going in the normal. It is so cool. (Looking forward to) the mosaic.