Mail Art + Pen Friends = Dear You Art Project
This project went great, kids were really excited about their houses popping out of the paper and they got magazines cut outs to accessorize and try to make it as similar as possible.
Mrs. Vicke Benavides
The 6 year olds in Prepri C from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico are making and sharing art with the 4-6 year olds in KG2C from Collegiate American School in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
I am so happy to see this artworks, there are beautiful, I am sure that the kids will love it too. We have been working with the project of our houses,
The kids are really excited about this, and we want to share with our friends in Germany where we live, how are our houses, what color are our houses....
Here are some stories of our pictures......
Ms. Angie: This is my house, I live with my parents and brothers. My house is white and it has a balcony and two windows
Diego: I have a car and a big window.
Ivanna: My house is brown and white.
Leo: My house is big and there is a tree, I live with my parents and siblings.
Bella: My house has two windows
Gonzalo: My house is red, it has two floors and I have a white car.
Romina: My house is white and with a big tree.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did, thank you for this fantastic experience!!!!!
Happy New Year for all of you!!
Ms. Angie and her group K2 "A"
Ms. Angie and her group of 4 year olds artists from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico are making and sharing art with Lusin Boyajyan from Kita Felix and Friends in Berlin, Germany.
Kids were really excited about this project, they kept thinking about places were their characters could live and almost everybody came up with more than one idea, and so, they asked for the opportunity to make 2 or even 3 projects.
Andres said that his character lived in disney because it was the happiest place in the world.
Renata said that her character could live in the beach because he loved to swim in the ocean.
Anabella and Sofía Ayala came up with a make-believe land were their character could live, because after all, characters should be able to live anywhere we can imagine!
This was by far the most enjoyable project for my kids and I was delighted to see them so excited creating beautiful pieces for our friends in Nottingham!
Global Classroom:
The day finally came when we were going to meet our art pals! Kids came really early to school so we could make the time difference work for everybody.
We had a computer ready to make the facetime call but for some reason the connection was not being successful. So, us teachers exchanged our phone numbers and used our mobile phones to make it happen.
My students' faces were priceless when they saw their friends live! They sand and danced for them, and they watched their friends do the same for them! They exchanged questions and got to know some differences about our schools. I have to admit they were kind of jealous because in Nottingham they get 3 breaks and they only get 1! We got to sing happy birthday to a beautiful girl who happened to have a birthday that day!!
They asked questions about what was the time, how was the weather, how they get to school, what do they eat for lunch, etc.
For the rest of the day they kept talking about this amazing experience, and can't wait for us to have another global session!
I can't thank you enough Arlene and Nina, for making this happen!!
Xoxo,
Vicke Benavides
The 5 and 6 year olds in Prepri C from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico are making and sharing with the 5 and 6 year olds in Class 1 from Sneinton C of E Primary School in Nottingham, UK.
This project went really well and it was a perfect for our curriculum since we were learning about how to describe our own homes. So we took this opportunity to make a drawing and a little message describing their homes to our friends abroad.
They were really excited about letting everybody know how their houses looked. Also, when we covered the drawings with the black paint they got kind of nervous because they thought it was ruined. But then, when they draw the outside of their homes on top of the black paint their faces were priceless!! They were amazed to see that if they scratched the black paint, our friends in Nottingham could be able to see the inside of their homes!!
Saludos,
Mrs. Vicke Benavides
The 5 and 6 year olds in Prepri C from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico are making and sharing with the 5 and 6 year olds in Class 1 from Sneinton C of E Primary School in Nottingham, UK.
We read a story about a bear who didn't know why he was made so he asked several animals if they knew their mission. At the end, a girl found him and he realized that his mission was to make the girl happy. The kids chose their favorite character so we then made several animals.
Thanks for everything,
Susana Martinez
Susana Martinez's Prepri D class, aged 6 years old, from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico are making and sharing art with Vega Barathi's Pre-school class at Saraswathy Darma Muneeswaran Kindergarten (SDMKG) in Singapore.
Our children enjoyed opening their mails. They loved them. We took out the crafts and placed them in individual envelopes and dropped them into the children's mail boxes.
With love,
Ms Rachel
Nursery 2A and Nursery 2B, 3-4 year olds at 215 EtonHouse Bi-Lingual Preschool in Singapore are making and sharing art with the 4 year olds from Nursery B at Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico.
Our artworks were shipped today! I would like you to share with your students the whole experience so they can imagine what happens when you send an envelope to a far away land. The project will also include "community workers".
Maria Elena Gonzalez, Preschool Principal at Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico had the great idea to create a platform for her teachers to share the knowledge and extend the learning experience for their students.
The Nursery and Prep classes at Colegio San Patricio are making and sharing art with schools in Germany, UK, Finland, and Singapore.
Dear friends from K1,
I´m so excited hearing from you!
Tomorrow I will read your letter to my students, they will get excited too!!
We really enjoyed making this project, my students got so happy when they first listened about the project, we did the same as you did, we found on the internet where Finland is on the map, they got surprise to see how far we are from each other, also we looked some pictures that we found on google of your school, they couldn't wait to sent the project to you!
We read Elmer the elephant story, they loved it, so our character is Elmer, you will receive many different elephants, we hope you like it too!!
My student will be very happy to see all your projects, because guess what!! they love Frozen, Dora, Spiderman, Pokemon and all the characters you mention too!!
When we made our projects we were celebrating Mexico´s Independence day! So if you can see in the pictures some of them were wearing Mexican clothes to commemorate this day.
Is nice to hear that you had a sunny day when you made the project, right now here in Monterrey is very hot!!
We sent a big hug to everybody!!
We are so excited keeping in touch with you!!
With lots of love,
Ms. Gaby, Ms. Kasandra and all K2B class!!
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant is a children's picture book series by the British author David McKee.
K2B class from San Patricio Colegio in Monterrey, Mexico are making and sharing art with the K1 class at International School of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland.
Eyes wide open and with welcoming ears, the Monkeys were very excited to hear that their new Dear You friends are from Monterrey, Mexico! The 5 and 6 year olds from Your School and Colegio Bosques de las Cumbres will be making and sharing art!
The Monkeys had the great ideas to look in the geography book where Mexico was. They then figured out ALL the ways to get to our new friends from Finland. We could swim! Use a submarine! Fly a helicopter! Drive a boat!
After we had a good conversation about our favorite stories and the characters that live in the story we got to work! We first cut and organized our transparent silk paper and then collaged it onto sticky paper. This stickiness was at first a challenge, but the artists persevered and made beautiful artworks, as you can see! We then tested our artworks against the light and then adding onto it with either more colored paper or markers.
The Monkeys like Butterfly, Ninja, Pokémon, Transformers, Chima Legos, Kung Fu Panda, Hedgehog stories. Do you recognize these stories? What stories do you like?
We can't wait to hear about your stories!
With love,
Arlene, Ben, Atefeh & The Monkeys
The 5-6 year old Monkeys from Your School in Espoo, Finland are making and sharing art with the 5-6 year olds from Colegio Bosques de las Cumbres in Monterrey, Mexico.
The Tigers from Your School in Espoo, Finland are bubbling in their seats about their new friends in Nursery A from Colegio San Patricio Cumbres in Monterrey, Mexico. Both groups of artists are 4 years old.
In the first project, Lights, Camera, Action!, we made artworks of a character from our favorite story. This is our introductory piece of art to getting to know each other. The sun was also a tool to create our art with. Good thing the sun was shining bright in Finland!
The stories liked were Goldilocks, Batman, Tree Monster, My Little Pony, Spiderman, Batman, Shark Story, Magical Fairy, Superman, Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed, and Ninja. Do you like these stories too? Which characters do you like from the story?
We can't wait to meet you!
With love,
Arlene, Toti, Zeynab and The Tigers
