The video link above shows Harris Elementary's gym and art class combined last week. The students learned about circle painting. Circle Painting is devoted to community-based art. Circle Painting is a group of artists, teachers, and community leaders who are all for art and want to bring art for all into communities. They are based in Southern California. Since we could not bring this creative group to us, I decided to use their project as inspiration and create some circle painted murals, Harris style.
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We couldn't have done this project without our gym teacher, Mr. Quarando. We had around 60 students in the gym at a time, painting, doing sit-ups, pull ups and playing a bean bag relay. The gym was set up in stations so that each student could paint and also perform some fitness assessments as well. It was an exhausting week for us, but totally worth it!
By Friday, all 600 of our Harris students will have taken part of this giant mural project. This is why I love my job!
Just a portion of our group circle mural :) The kids are having a blast.
What a great idea! Now you have to combine all three specials!
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