SESSION 6: LET'S DRAW INSIDE MONTSENY AREA!

Hi again! What's up?

Time runs very fast and I was ready to do my sixth session with an active listening attitude and lot of things to share in a different place: Sant Guillem’s Hermitage. Before getting there, they took their bags and had breakfast at class, and also they went out of the school in turn to listen to what they were bound to experiment. For a while, we were walking with each one’s folder and an imaginative bag full of imagination.

I got impressed by how most of them said to me that they were feeling a bit sad because I was leaving this Pràcticum Period very soon with a phrase that let me think a lot with a sensation of both melancholy and satisfaction because they appreciated me a lot like: if you don’t come at class, I won’t go to school because you make classes become different! You are cheerful with us all and you make activities that are so much fascinating! You will be always one of our best teachers!

Sant Guillem was illuminated with an added light apart from its own essence: the Sun. The sky was looking as brilliant and the landspace was transmitting a sensation of relax in turn to get inspired by the nature and sounds from multiple birds mixed with the air. I told the activity that they were likely to start: it consisted in drawing a part of this area around Sant Guillem while enjoying the possibility of being in a non-usual school place and applying the techniques of charcoal.

To do this, each one had a piece of charchoal and a specific sheet to draw on it and time to move around the zone and find their inspiration. I loved how they rapidly found a place to sit and start to make an initial scheme that then turned to be a drawing similar to reality. I found necessary that they had tissues to clean up themselves, the area, and a bag to put the materials used all together. At the mere beginning, two of them seemed to be not as much motivated as desired because they looked tired, but they progressively started to feel free by a motivating purpose inside the nature which made me feel proud of them too.  

When they had almost finished, we went back to school and they wrote a title behind the drawing on a piece of cardboard that summarized it, and at the end, they pasted the final result on a cardboard in order to get a lovely and artistic composition. From my point of view, this session worked excellently well as they were joined to learn from experiences about a new material, the charcoal, while cohabitating among classmates and getting their bodies relaxed to reach their final drawing.

Once at class, it was time to... rethink of how cardboards would be pasted to get the final... the final... pieces of art!

Is there a better way to finish than with a video about views from our immediate nature? I think here you can find your way and get inspired as your children did on last day too!