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Nana Kvaratskhelia

Found object art

I was thiking about what I can make of my dries flowers to build an ornament piece, and I decided to shape musical notes, and G key with ear phones, which took me time to compose. as a background, I put colored construction paper.

the next item, was very easy to create, as while working on the musical notes board, I saw my folded mas next to the flowers, so idea came by itself. I built it as a tote bag on the composition to contain the flowers, and I used pushpins as a hanger.

the next pictures idea came in my classroom, when I saw a almost-rotten banana, and it inspired me to build a face with it. I used a plate, the eraser as a nose, colored cups (from the kitchen ) and pipe cleaners for eyebrows. I made the hair from treads, as I choose ginger color just like my hair color.

Nana Kvaratskhelia

Planning your Curriculum Web, First Draft

ECE 211

Professor Reich-Shapiro

Final Project: Curriculum Web Planning Sheet

  The theme (topic) of my curriculum web is: Identity           
  The “Big Ideas” I want to explore within this topic are:     My “big’’ idea about identity is to get to know and discover myself, my genealogy, my environment, and inherited customs. I also want the students to understand what it means to represent another country or tradition and why we should respect them, and how they get to accept themselves as they are, to admit all people are acceptable and why should we not criticize them. How to help myself and others overcome complexes and how not to inflict pain on others. How to love my family, my country, and my friends.                 
  The five sub-themes (topics) of my curriculum are:  
Myself      My FamilyMy Culture/Traditions                    My RelationshipsThe World Around Me
  For each of my sub-themes, three possible activities that would support students in learning about that topic are: (Make sure to include a range of creative arts activities and at least one literacy activity for each sub-theme)  
  Observe myself, how do I look? Which shape do I have, what color are my eyes, hair, and skin? What do I love? What makes me happy an unhappy? Let’s imagine “me” in every age: as a baby, as an adult, as in age and as a grandparent.          How many members do I have in my family? How many languages do we speak? Let’s play “It’s my grandmother’s birthday party”. Let’s make a family tree.    Share what do we celebrate together? Let’s talk about our national food, dance, songs, clothe. Bring any traditional food and speak about it.  What do we do with our friends? Let’s draw how our friends look. Let’s make a gift for our besties, what would you do?  Lets’ draw the map, where am I there? Let’s learn “hello” in as many languages as we could remember. World’s most famous celebrations that I like.  
Art-project:   Draw myself, with crayons on the paper. Make smile emojis.              Activity:   Pretending we are family, and we are getting ready for grandma’s birthday party. We will use kitchen area. Cut and draw tree and write down our family member’s names.Activity:   Wear traditional clothe, bring any food, singing traditional songs.  Activity:   Draw friends with coloring pencils. Cut construction paper and make rectangle, square, circle shape, color them with paint.Art-project:   Using construction paper, paint, crayons.      
Books:   “I like myself”   “It’s okey to be different.”   “What I like about me “      Books:   “Me and my family tree”   “My family, your family”   “Owl babies”      Books:   “Celebrations around the world!” By Helen Gregory   “Celebrate! The Holiday” By Sophia Day “   “Where did my clothes come from?” by Chris Butterworth    Books:   “We are better together” by Eileen Spinelli   “Chrysanthemum” by Kevin Henkes   “You’re mean Lily Jean” by Frida Wishinsky and Kady Macdonald    Books:   “The Earth and I” by Frank Asch.   “Same, same but different” by Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw   “Say Hello” by Rachel Isadora        
     

Nana Kvaratskhelia

Seminar project: Exploring Children’s Museum of Art

This is a sunny lighted living room embellished with pistachio curtains falling over low windows. 

In the middle there is a wood table on the top of which we have a glass vase with violets, roses, marigold and Lilis. In the middle ceramic coffee colored vase, we have daffodils, and spikes. On the right side we have a basket full of avocados, grapes, bananas, figs, oranges and apples. 

The house for me is where I always have flowers in Larnaca, fruits and chocolate spread and hidden. Where there are large windows for sunbeams to enter without consent. Where I change tablecloths, curtains as often as I feel it and where I never miss an occasion to decorate for Christmas or any other celebration. When I usually open the door, I greet the house “Hi home!’’ and ask my flowers how they are feeling today. There we meet the loved one who, with a smile, greets you “welcome back home.”

The drawing is made with digital line and paint brushes and filled with bucket technique