Landscape

What are the properties of a landscape? 

• Foreground
• Mid ground
• Background 

Firstly, I was informed to always consider every small steps in order to achieving the desired outcome. And that would mean to define and simplify most words in terms of gaining good literacy skills and knowledge of the art terminology. By using smaller steps to breaking down what a landscape consists of. For example, beginning with the general idea of what could be seen in the background. To kick it off, I had brought up the discussion of daily landscape they see in their surroundings or things they notice everyday as they travel to school. The feature first mentioned was the sky and what is within them are clouds. 

Week1-2:

The important thing I've learned is not to share some visuals and definitions and leave it as it is, what I find that is good to established is that there are variety of ways to approach something instead of just listening to what the teacher says to do. I respect and encourage the freedom of them sharing their ideas and thoughts which then helps me to improve the lessons. As it was the beginning, I might not have been very specific with details and further explaining. 
What can we tell by looking at clouds? 


I had talked briefly on this feature by sharing a small knowledge of science that is is of vapour, something that has no solid form but also added with a question, does it mean it does not have a shape we recognise? For example:

Using relatable terms: I think that would communicate well with the juniors by mentioning something they do know or aware of. I mentioned that the shapes reminded me of wooly fur on a sheep or a goat. That perked their interests and paying their attention to the visible representation of the movements of clouds which led me to show the iconic piece by Van Gogh, 'Starry Night'. They might have not known the name but their reactions showed that this was not an unfamiliar piece.

Week 3 : 

Coop teacher is letting the class carrying on with the collage landscape, almost to finishing in putting finishing touches to the aspects of landscapes, some are adding details in the foreground. I can tell they grasp the concept of landscape, and subject knowledge of what it consists of: Foreground, mid ground and background.