This week was an important and exciting week for the Visual Arts class at the middle school. The 6th and 7th graders visited Drexel University and attended a tour at The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. The highlight of my week was when one of the students asked the tour guide, “Can I live here?”. The tour guide responded, “I assume so, if you pay the tuition.”
Tuesday was a work in progress day for the middle school students for my Independent Study. We are still working on The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia’s Project due to the snow days. Surprisingly, we completed a lot of work in class. A couple of students finished creating the signage while a shy 6th grader sorted the paper cut out sneakers and formed them into a shape of a giant sneaker following our initial designs in a matter of minutes. The rest of the 6th grade students created and decorated trees utilizing tissue paper for the leaves and construction paper for the tree trunk. One of the 6th grade students who seemed uninterested during the first couple of weeks due to his lack of self confidence in his artistic ability began to prepare the tissue paper, help me clean up, and gather materials after class ended. However most of the 7th graders seemed very uninterested in creating and decorating paper cut outs of the skyline for the bicycle theme. They seemed more interested in catching up on the latest gossip or running around the classroom.
On Thursday, only 8 students turned in their permission slip so they were allowed to take a field trip to Drexel University. Unfortunately, one got into a fight earlier so he was unable to attend. It was sad because he seemed very disappointed. We took the Septa bus from the middle school to Drexel’s campus. On the bus ride my supervisor gave each student a bag of healthy snacks. Once we finally arrived at Antoinette Westphal, students immediately began taking pictures to post on their social media platforms. The tour guide came and gave a tour of the school’s classrooms and facilities from the top floor down. Towards the end of the day, they met up with the Visual Merchandising class where the D&M students gave presentations.
I am in the Visual Merchandising class and having the kids come into the classroom for our presentations was a breath of fresh air. I love children, and their introductions to our class were priceless. I am glad they got to come to the URBN center, and I hope that they were too. I commend you for traveling on public transportation with the kids. Though it was not far, keeping track of several kids is no easy task, especially when you are responsible for their safety. I hope that they enjoyed their trip!
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