The Latin tag above, “After this, therefore because of it” usually denotes a logical fallacy. But, in our case, it is the “apologia” for our day. Since yesterday was our field trip to the Getty, today we did some Roman-inspired art.
The most famous art form of antiquity, after sculpture, of course, is mosaic. The students saw some great examples of this yesterday at the Getty Villa. So today we made mosaics of our own. It would be fun if we could give the students cement and bits of broken tile to make their mosaics, the the logistics of that are a little too hard. So we worked on learning the same technique with bits of construction paper and glue.
Many of the students will be finishing their work tomorrow – this is a pretty time-consuming assignment – but as you can see, some of those finished today were quite impressive.
After lunch we did PE with Akiko Morrison – another regular Thursday activity. The students did a lot of fun things. They started our with a relay, which included the sit-up station you see below.
They also worked on hand-eye coordination by bouncing a rubber ball ten times on a racket and then handing it off to a teammate.
There was also an exciting relay, and the winning team is going to be treated to Yogurtland certificates, again, courtesy of Akiko.
Homework: Write a multiple-paragraph essay about the trip to the Getty Villa. The focus of the composition should be the art, not the bus trip or lunch. There should be opening and concluding paragraphs. Spelling, punctuation, and handwriting all count, though the ideas are the most important part.
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