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The garden design process is a big contest. Students from the entire grade level work together in teams to create a design. The teams that follow the rubric (ie have every component from it) will be allowed to advance to the teacher vote. Teachers will vote on the top three designs by the students. The top three designs will then be refined for presentation to Real School Gardens. At that point it is up to Real School Gardens to make a decision on which design they will use or whether they will incorporate elements from each of the designs.
There will be no formal Spanish lessons for the rest of the semester. The students are now going to be working on an IB project to create a garden in the front of the school with Real School Gardens. Since I am part of this project however, I will try to incorporate Spanish as much as possible into the garden. My students will have to somehow incorporate a way to show off the country they are studying into their design. One of the rubric points for the project is that they must also incorporate elements from 5 Spanish speaking countries into their design.
Below is a picture of a design that Mrs. Zheng (Librarian) and I created as an example. The 5 Spanish speaking countries are represented in these ways: 1. Costa Rica- "alien" spheres dotting the garden as they do all over the country. 2. Argentina- Sun dial painted with the Argentine flag sun. 3. Spain- Statue of a bull in the Europe section of the garden. 4. Peru- Nazca lines etched into the flower bed in the South America section of the garden. 5. Mexico- Wooden "papel picado" hanging in the entryway to the garden. I can't wait to see what the students come up with! Pictures to come of their ideas! Only one garden design will be chosen, but I will try to put as many pictures up of their work as I can. |
Mrs. CoxenPreston Hollow Elementary Spanish Teacher Archives
April 2016
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