CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART NYC – VALERIE KHARCHENKO – 5 HOURS
This week was my first week only working in the Exploring Media class. We started class out with a drawing challenge. One of the kids had brought a few of their stuffed animals. These stuffed animals were in the shape of cubes, and the class decided it would be fun to draw your favorite animal in cube formation. After the drawing challenge we started the lesson for the day which was focusing on learning what sequences and story lines are. We watched an episode of a YouTube series called Shaun the Sheep. Throughout the episode, we would pause the show and have the kids describe some of the sequences that were happening in the story. After finished the episode, we split into groups. Each group was assigned with a teacher and was required to come up with a story. The group that I was working with came up with a story about a baby cheetah getting lost and being really sad that she couldn't find her home. Then a Star Wars character and a Pokemon find the baby cheetah and decided to take her home. On the way home the three characters run into all sorts of different traps in which they have to solve puzzles correctly to move on. The three finally make it to the cheetahs home, and throw a party. After everyone was done writing their stories, we had one student from each group present to the class. It was really great hearing all the different stories that each group came up with. After our story writing time, we watched a few more episode of Shaun the Sheep.