This weeks in-puts was about working with materials that we would not usually work with or have the opportunity to in order to create something that we did not know that we would be able to. Throughout this week’s art in-put, we were working with Norwegian students to create outdoor sculptures, through this we were working with both people and materials that we thought we would not be able to. Through this week’s music in-put we were using garage band to create an autumn soundscape, this is a material that not many children have the opportunity to work with.

This week’s art lesson took us outside for the first time. Being outdoors during an art in-put opened up a new world of stimuli for us as future educators to take note of but also experience first-hand of exactly what it would be like if we were to ever teach or bring the children outdoors to work with the different materials. The outdoors itself allow each and every one of us to think of ways and ideas to make these sculptures however, having the priviledge to work with the Norwegian students, this opened up another world or imagination for us all to work with. We were able to work on our collaboration skills and also our communication skills as we were working in groups to create the sculptures. I believe that working alongside people who have grown up in different surroundings and environments provided us with an extra lens to how we were looking at the materials we had in front of us. We were able to create something extraordinary that we did not know was even possible prior to the in-put.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following on from our art in-put, we were looking at and working with garage band. Garage band is an app that is available on mac in which users are able to work with different instruments on in order to create our own music. Creating our own music was a very daunting task for myself to begin with as I have never seen myself as a musical person. I have struggled with the idea of how to even begin my piece, however once I got started, I wanted it to never end. Like in art, it was exploring a whole new world that I never knew I could explore. Working on a mac and creating music was something I never knew we could do nevertheless to teach children whilst doing so. This allowed me to see that when we do use new programmes and ways of working in different parts of expressive art’s we open up new worlds for both us as future educators and for the pupils themselves to explore one day.

This week, exploring different ways in which we can and do explore materials that are in our surrounding world we can create things that we never knew existed. Working with different factors such as students from a different country or a mac book allows us to see a new world that not many other influences can show us.