Ms. Liz Godfrey

Preschool students explored a new way to paint! The true beauty of this art was the process. Our friends used a funnel to fill balloons with different materials (sparkles, sand, shells, beads), blew them up, then dipped them into paint and sent them over the railing down to paper that was in the ES courtyard. It gave us multiple things to discuss. Friends decided on a way to be safe and had a team work as the safety crew. We found out about gravity, if the balloons fell slowly or went down quickly. We experienced that some of our balloons would pop and we would make guesses based on previous experience if our balloon would pop and why. We also made a large scale collaborative abstract painting. Afterwards the activity was carried on in the preschool courtyard with playing with the balloons and the treasures found inside.

Our Preschool artists have been making work about their experiences.  The day we came back to school after the typhoon everyone had stories to share!  Swimming pools were full of leaves, noises had been heard, lights had gone out, rain had filled the streets….so we created our own typhoons in boxes to further explore and express our experiences. 

Next, I learned that our Preschool friends have been raising tadpoles and visiting the pond on campus.  We used our imaginations and turned shapes into a collage of many creatures that could be found in water based on our experiences with water.  Some artists made work about the beach, some about ponds, rivers and even rain and puddles. 

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