I love collaborating with colleagues, and am always inspired by the lessons we create together. As a staff, we are all brainstorming ways to include technology into our curriculum. One of our Judaic teachers wanted to have his 4th Grade class film a short stop motion film depicting a story from the Parsha. After just a few minutes of shooting ideas back and forth, and playing with a couple of apps on an ipad, we decided we could create a great collaborative unit in both Judaics and Art.
Our 4th Graders picked up on our enthusiasm, and have been loving this project. We decided to break the class up into 5 teams, and gave them each the charge to depict a scene from the Isaac, Jacob, and Esau story. Artists were given small cubes of modeling clay to knead and sculpt into the characters from the story. Each team was also given a shoe box to create a movie set for their chosen scene. The clay figures are impressive, and I am thrilled to watch this vision come to life. Stay tuned for updates....
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