Sticks & Stones, 3rd and 4th Grade Visit

In early December, the 3rd and 4th grade GROW students visited the Nasher for their Sticks & Stones tour.  The students visited the same works of art as the second graders during their November tour, but just as every student is unique, so was each conversation and activity. 

Visit 1 Vocabulary:

material / material

bronze / bronce

texture / textura 

carve / esculpir

impression / impresión

Starting with Giuseppe Penone's Spazio di luce (Space of Light) and Idee di pietra - 1372 Kg di luce (Ideas of Stone - 1372 kg of Light) was a great way to warm up our minds and our bodies as we grew our own "trees" up to the sun.

Giuseppe Penone, Spazio di luce (Space of Light) 

3rd grade

4th grade Trees

Giuseppe Penone, Idee di pietra - 1372 Kg di luce (Ideas of Stone - 1372 kg of Light)

3rd grade Trees

Next, we studied Penone's 5 propogazione – maggio 2011 (5 Propagations – May 2011). Students compared these ink drawings to the concentric circles found in tree rings and fingerprints. Like the second graders, they created drawings with their fingerprint in the middle, surrounded by a circle for every year of their age.

4th grade

4th grade

3rd grade

For more details about the artworks and activities above, take a look at the blog post about the 2nd grade visit in November!

The final stop of the tour was Penone's Patate.  After just a few moments of looking, students realized that Patate was more than just a pile of potatoes.  Nestled within the potatoes were five bronze potatoes in the form of Penone's facial features: his nose, ear, and mouth.  The students learned about how the potatoes took on his likeness by growing into molds of Penone's face, which he buried next to the young potatoes underground.  

4th grade

Stay tuned to read about the 3rd and 4th grade visit next week!