Week 12

This past week, we worked on creating three-dimensional "location cubes." Using a piece of construction paper, the students created six 6-inch-by-6-inch boxes on both sides of the paper. Next, each student selected a location - beach, desert, mountains, farm, etc. etc. - that they wanted as the basis of their outer cube design. Then, on the opposite side of the paper, the students chose a building or place one would find in that location (beach = hut, city = office building, farm = barn, etc. etc.) and designed an interior room. Finally, after decorating both sides, we folded the cubes together and fastened them with glue. The result was a cube with a landscape design on the outside and an interior room/building design on the inside.

Thursday was Omega's last class day before their Spring Break, so we had a game day. Our first game was "Human Knot" - a problem-solving game we had played the previous class - where a group of students clasps hands with two other people from their group, creating a large tangle of arms. The object was to untangle your group's knot without letting go of each others' hands. We also played reverse musical chairs, another problem solving game. Like regular musical chairs, each time the music stops, a chair is removed from the circle, but a team member is not eliminated. The goal is to keep the entire group's feet off the floor, even when there may be only one chair left.

Next week, on Friday April 24th, the ArtSpace group will be taking a field trip to Arizona State University to visit the art museum and look at some of the campus architecture.