Museum Project and Bello Gardens

In a class meeting, the students were able to come to a consensus and agree to create a museum called The Museum of the 3/4 Mind. Perhaps you have heard of the strict and serious, but passionate and supportive museum director who runs the Museum of the 3/4 Mind? The young, inspired gallery curators in our class wrote letters to her, advocating for the opportunity to design and curate a gallery space in the museum. After receiving their letters, the museum director visited the class to give the curators two tasks:

1. Zoom in- What will be the specific FOCUS of your gallery?

2. Research- What EXACTLY will visitors learn from the experience of visiting your gallery?

Since that visit, the curators have been working hard to define specific intentions for their gallery and do the necessary research. They've been reading non-fiction texts on topics ranging from top Brazilian soccer stars to ancient Egyptian writing to North American butterflies to peaceful world leaders to the history of skateboarding to penguin adaptations and more! Today, the curators presented their notes in one-on-one conferences with the museum director who gave them a second set of individual goals and the green light to begin construction once those goals are met. 

Next week, we will discuss paragraphing and begin using those skills to better organize our research on the interpretive panels that will be placed in the exhibits. Julie will support this project in art class as well!

I love taking the students to Bello Gardens to spend time with the seniors who live there. Thanks to every one of you for making that possible. If you came along with us you know just how special the time is for the residents and for the kids. On our first visit of the year we gifted our new buddies with poetry that we'd written in class about the things that we do to make ourselves and those around us feel good. We asked questions to start to get to know our buddies and we ended our time there with a rockin' game of BINGO! I look forward to going back on October 28.