Each student drew one of these animals of their choice, with attention to the shapes that describe their animal. After our preliminary drawings were done, each child was given plastercine to create their animal three dimensionally.
The finished sculptures were place on boards with plastercine scenes as environments for the students' sculptures. Snow (or dirt) ground cover was created with impressions of their animals's footprints - connecting to our plaster footprints that we made when exploring the footprints we discovered on our trails.
The opportunity to create their ideas and images three-dimensionally, helps children gain spatial understanding with depth and perspective in their work. Mme Reilly