Children were able to hear not just the birds singing, laughter of the dearest people, but also the sound of snow and water, and the song of the rainbow (shooting_star).
environment
Putting sounds in the background to the foreground
3rd Grade, 2021, China, USACommentOpen call for artworks for Science and Nature Art Exhibition in China!
2018, China, Exhibition, Open CallCommentOpen call for artworks depicting your local environment! Your art will be part of Shenzhen Senior High School’s ‘Science and Nature Art Exhibition’ from May 25th to June 11th!
What kind of nature surrounds you? What season is it where you live? Was it the same kind of weather this time last year?
Share with your friends in Shenzhen, China what your local environment looks like. You can choose which medium you would like use. For example, you could use photography, painting, drawing or collage. Use a viewfinder to create your beautiful picture!
If you wish, you can write the artist’s name on the artwork, title of the work, date, and include anything else they would like to share about their art and chosen environment.
Please email your work to finmage@outlook.com by May 22nd.
NOTE: By submitting your student’s artwork to Shenzhen Senior High School’s Science and Nature Art Exhibition, you give permission for the school and Dear You to use the photos online and in the school’s public space.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing different views of our beautiful world!
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公开征集描绘当地自然环境的艺术作品！ 5月25日至6月11日，您的作品将成为深圳高中“科学与自然艺术展”的一部分！
你周边的环境如何？现在是什么季节？去年这个时候是否是同样的天气？
与你在中国深圳的朋友分享当地的自然环境，你可以选择你想使用的任何艺术方式！例如摄影，绘画，绘画和拼贴等等！用我们的艺术取景器，创造来自自然的美丽图画！
您可以在您的艺术作品附上名字，作品名称，日期，以及您想要分享的任何作品背后的小故事和随想。
请于5月22日前将您的作品发送至finmage@outlook.com。
注意：将您的作品提交给深圳高级中学的’科学与自然艺术展’，您将授权学校和DearYou在网站以及学校的公共场所使用这些照片。
谢谢！我们期待看到来自我们美丽世界的不同观点！
You can make a viewfinder and then compose your picture!
Taizhou Pheonix Primary School translate their environment!
2018, China, FinlandCommentThe children in our class enjoy sharing things with me very much. This is no exception, the school take three days off for the Chinese traditional Qingming festival (清明节). Qingming festival, it is spring back to the earth, people sweep the tomb, a young and old in the middle reaches of the nature, home conveniently fold a few branches and leaves bud of willow branches on his head, happy.
Also, some people specially during the Qingming festival to nature to enjoy and appreciate the vibrant spring scenery, watching the spring scenery. We Taizhou area in many places and dragon boat racing, dragon dance and other traditional activities, so most of the children choose and their parents to visit, observe all kinds of activities.
After returning from the holiday, many students shared their photos with the class. We sat together and talked to each other about the fun of the holiday and the beauty we enjoyed. Then find a quiet environment to record your feelings, easy to share with you.
Sincerely,
Miss Wu Juehua
The artists in Grade 2 (8-9 years old) at Taizhou Pheonix Primary School in Jiangsu, China are making and sharing art with the artists at Linguajoy (7-10 years old) in Helsinki, Finland.
油菜花. Rapeseed Flowers.
The Monkeys translate their environment for their friends!
2018, 6 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, FinlandComment
Words have an amazing way of painting pictures in our minds! The Monkeys have created sound pieces that will hopefully tell their friends in Kontula about where they are in Olari. We started by exploring the environment and then as we were recording tried to catch as many details as we could to communicate them to our friends.
Kanelit, you can draw a picture based on our recordings! Also, do you hear what is happening in the background? The more you listen the more your visions grow.
Thank you for making art with us!
Sincerely,
Arlene, Sanna, Ben, and The Monkeys
The 6 year old artists at Your School in Espoo, Finland are making and sharing art with the 6 year old artists from Päiväkoti Pihapirtti in Helsinki, Finland.
Stirring the imagination!
2017, 2016, 2nd Grade, Finland, RussiaComment
Artworks from the artists at Кепская школа им. Ортье Степанова (Kepa School) in Karelia, Russia
We received wonderful works from Russia and many of the class in SVK were inspired by them. This time we did the environment and the means of transportation. Children made their means of transportation and the environment. The work from Russia ( underground mine and diamonds) stirred kids imagination. Many did the imaginative diamond world as their destination.
The artists from 2B at Suomalais-venäläinen koulu are making and sharing art with the artists from Кепа школу (Kepa School) in Karelia, Russia.
Artworks from Suomalais-venäläinen koulu
From Candy Land Finland to Karelia!
2016, 2nd Grade, 8 years olds, Finland, RussiaComment
Hi Arlene! Yesterday we did the workshop in SVK with 2b class. I think everyone was interested in mobiles. I showed them the mobiles the Karelian kids made. There wad no letter from Russia. I think our workshop went fluently because everyone could make their favorite character in the environment that they like.
Everybody had different approaches to their environment. A few girls drew their favorite pets or just animals and the environment was candy land. Some drew magic land without characters, I thin there was Rapunzel and her tower in one drawing. Many drew animation and game characters.
Kristina Laine
The artists from Кепская школа им. Ортье Степанова (Kepa School) in Karelia, Russia are making and sharing art with the artists from 2B at Suomalais-venäläinen koulu.
Spirals from Russia!
10 years old, 2016, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, RussiaComment
Ученики Финско-русской школы в Хельсинки получили художественную посылку из России. Ребята из Кепской школы им. Ортье Степанова (п. Кепа, Калевальский район, респ. Карелия) рассказали об окружающей среде в в которой живут их герои, нарисовав ее на спиральных скульптурах.
Это третье задание 4-х месячной сессии проекта Дорогой ты осень-зима 2016г. Присоединяйтесь к нам!
The artists from Кепская школа (Kepa School) in Karelia, Russia are making and sharing art with the artists from 2B at Suomalais-venäläinen koulu.
Spiraling their way from Canada to Finland!
2016, 4th Grade, Dear You Art Workshops, Canada, FinlandCommentWe received the spirals and shared them the class. It was interesting to watch the kids guessing the day/night side of the spirals.
Our art is on the way. The characters are traveling using different kinds of transportation.
Our spirals (project #3) should arrive at the same time with the project #4 (different kinds of transportation). The kids wrote letters in English. There was a group of students who were eager to write in Finnish Language. They used Google Translator. We are not sure about the accuracy of our translation, but I am proud of the kids who came up with this idea.
Dance Agapieva-Vasileska
Grade 4
Ryerson PS
Dear You art project, Look around
The 4th graders from Ryerson PS in Ontario, Canada are making and sharing art with the 4th graders from Viertolan Koulu in Vantaa, Finland.
Looking around and what do we see?
2016, 6th Grade, Canada, FinlandCommentHere are the photos of the spiral artworks for Look Around project. The index cards are their explanations of their artworks. Some of them painted outside, some painted inside because it had gotten too cold the one day to paint outside of the portable! :)
These works are all on their way to Päivi and her students. They were posted earlier this week, so hopefully they arrive before the holiday break!
Teacher Kaarina Losey
The 6th graders at Ryerson P.S. in Cambridge, ON, Canada are making and sharing art with the 6th graders from The English School in Helsinki, Finland.
Looking at Vincent van Gogh's and William Turner's works for inspiration!
2016, 4th Grade, Canada, FinlandCommentWe began the 90min meeting with 4A class in Viertolan Koulu in Vantaa, Finland by reading out reflection and feedback from teacher Dance and her wonderful students in Ontario. I feel that it is always important for the young artists to know that their art appreciated and valued.
Preparing for the worksop, I found the suggestion to demonstrate artworks depicting different kinds of environments to the children very helpful. Together we looked at works by Vincent van Gogh and William Turner, and discussed how these artists captured their worlds. We talked about how light, colour and brushstrokes can tell us about the weather, time of the day and the season in the landscape.
Here is our work-in-progress, both side of the circles before they were cut into spirals. A combination of pencils and markers encouraged the creation of some very vibrant worlds. However, some of the characters live in outer space, and day there is not much different to night. (A little bit like Finland right now)
Thank you to Kirsti and Viertolan Koulu for welcoming me again. Can't wait to see the art we get from Ontario!
- Anastasia Artemeva
The 4th graders from Viertolan Koulu in Vantaa, Finland are making and sharing with the 4th graders from Ryerson PS in Ontario, Canada.
Abstract styles from Nottingham!!
2016, 5 years old, 6 years old, Dear You Workshop Leader, Dear You Art Workshops, Mexico, United KingdomCommentWe looked at pics on the internet of under the sea. The children were keen on making a list of all the animals that live under the sea.
Here are some snippets of conversations....
I think it's nice and warm
It might be dark and a bit scary
I like it in the dark... you can see awesome things under the sea
I think it's beautiful under the sea
I would like to look at all the animals under the sea
I like colouring it's fun because when you have finished you can play with it.
Spider fish
Electric Eel
Starfish
Swordfish
Seahorse
Elephant fish
Octopus
Hammerhead Shark
Stingray
Flying fish
Clownfish
John Dory
Puffer fish
Dolphin
Whale
Killer whale
Great white shark
Nina Evans
The 5 and 6 year olds in Class 1 from Sneinton C of E Primary School in Nottingham, UK are making and sharing art with the 5 and 6 year olds in Prepri C from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico.
Extending our inquiry into the world of 'Changes'
2016, 3 years old, 4 years old, Mexico, SingaporeCommentMail Art 3 was another interesting project. It was amazing. We also extended our inquiry to 'Changes' in general where children talked about what 'Change' meant to each one.
What is change? What does it mean to children? Children usually use this word in context with clothes. However the meaning varies. Why are we talking about change here?
Children wanted to know if the changes in our environment are similar with those in other countries. Celin said that she saw snow in Korea. Emilia shared that it only rains in Singapore. Advaith shared that in some parts of India it snows.
I started off by reading the 'Day and Night Monkey'. This gave the children the opportunity to converse about how night is different from the day time. A few children shared that they could only watch television for a while at night. Julian shared that there was once where the sky grew dark and he thought that it was night but it was not. It was going to rain. Ethan agreed with him and shared that the sky tricked him. He thought that it was going to rain but it was night time.
I had an amazing time conversing with the children about 'Day' and 'Night'
Jordan drew about Night and Day Safari. He shared about how his mum enjoyed the fire show at the Night Safari and about how bright the fire was. He shared that the Night Safari was dark and there were no lights around except for the lights in the shelter. Emilia asked about why there were no lights. I shared with the children that sometimes when people go on a Night Safari, they do not carry torch lights as they might invite animals to them. Then Emila asked about what else they could do. I continued saying, " Maybe A fire torch where fire is used. Fire is hot and dangerous but there is a special way of using it so that you do not catch fire." Emila continued to ask, "But why fire?" Then I asked, " What happens to darkness when a candle is lit up?" Jordan replied, " It becomes bright." Emilia smiled and went, ' Oh yes!' Then children took off from there about how animals might shun away from the fire to protect themselves.
Emilia drew buildings at LEGOLAND.She shared that the buildings were light green during the day and became very dark during the Night as she had to go to sleep. Everyone had to sleep too.
Jing Ru drew the Zoo. Jing Ru's focus was on colours. She shared about how the colour of the sign board appeared to have changed during the day and Night. During the day it appears Green and at Night it appears purple. Then she thought for a while and said "I think purple and red can make black." Great thinking! I loved it! Jing Ru can be given the opportunity to work with lights and paint of different colours." Then Adu came to me asking," What colour is this?" Pointing to a dot made by maker on his paper. When I said purple, he continued," It looks purple here right? But when I turn the paper to the back of it, it looks brown. How is that? "
Jeongwon drew her Mummy in a garden. She painted a story about how her Mum got eaten up by a shark when she went out. And that night her dad had to cook for the children and they all slept. In the morning, her Mum returned. She realised that she had been dreaming.
Ethan drew flowers and volcanos. He shared that some flowers bloom during the night and close during the day. Moreover he said that they can be found in india.
Adu drew Volcanos and shared that when everything is dark during the night, as the Volcano erupts, the lava will be bright. Besides he shared that not all the volcanos would erupt.
Xi Wen drew a legoland building. She said that the building is very colourful during the day. But at night, it will be dark only the windows will have colours and light.
Leeann shared about going to her cousin's house with her family. In her picture she drew the sun low that it almost touched the ground. She said it is going to be night time as the sun is going down. She also shared that everything(flowers)grow big during the day.
Julian shared about going to the Supermarket with his Grandma during the Night. He also shared about going to his cousin's home and playingswords during dinner. He had dinner with his parents' friends, went back and slept. He woke up in the morning and had his breakfast. He shared that he had the snack which Nicole had placed in the birthday goodies bag. Then he played tennis which was bought by his Grandpa from Kuala Lumpur. When it is morning, I saw a moon but it was not clear.
Nicole: It is Morning. I have drawn the eyes of Morning. Can you see the rainbow? I see the sky and the sun and the rainbow in the morning. At night, i see the Night star. I can see the birds flying and sleeping. My pool is blue at night and it is the same in the morning.
Celin: Night time is dark. The stars are sparkling. The sun is coming soon. Morning, someone gets up and smells the flower. The sun was hot and someone goes into the house. Then it was almost Night time again.
Avinaash: I drew the sun and moon. When I wake up in the morning, i see the Sun. When i sleep in the Night, I see the moon. Then the sun come up again. Then the clouds also come out.
Zhi Han drew a girl and a bunny and drew told a story. ' There was a girl. It was the first day of her own life. When the girl goes out, she sees the biggest sun in the world. The girl finds a swimming pool which is icy cold and has toy sharks inside. Then the little girl sees a bunny hopping by. She feeds him carrot as he is hungry. Then the little bunny wanted to follow the girl home. The little girl took him home and asked her Mummy if she could keep the bunny. Her Mummy said, " You can shower the bunny and you can play." And then it was Night time and the bunny slept beside the girl on the bed. And she read the story,' The Hunter who Got To the Forest' to the bunny.
Jia Wen drew the stars, moon and blue sky for the Night sky. She drew a sun and yellow sky for the morning sky. She shared that she could see clouds and Sun in the morning and moon and stars outside at night.
Hope you enjoyed reading the stories.
Love,
Rachel
Nursery 2A, 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.
K1 have open arms for their friends in Mexico!
2016, 4 years old, 5 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, MexicoCommentToday was an extra special Dear You workshop with the lovely artists at International School of Helsinki! They were so excited to see what was in the package! We read the letter from Kinder 3B and talked about their artworks. Who is this frog character? By looking at the artworks, what kind of personality does this frog have? One of the best parts of this first share was reading the names of the artists in Mexico. Some of us have friends or brothers and sisters with the same names!
Before the students came in from the park, Mrs. Maaninka showed me what K1 has been up to in their Unit of Inquiry, as part of PYP. She showed me the great dioramas of the different landscapes and habitats they have been exploring. This subject coincided very nicely with the current Dear You project, Look around, which is about creating our character's environment using watercolors and wax crayons.
In circle time, we started off the workshop with an active discussion on what elements are in our environment. When we step out of our school, what do we see? The children said rocks, birds, trees, snow. Oh, good thing they brought up snow! I asked them, when I was here in October for the Layers of Love project, did we have snow? No! So that means our environment and our habitat changes. We talked about these changes in relation to day time and night time too.
We then shifted to our characters and thought about if we were at our character's home and stepped out for a walk, what would we see? As you will soon discover, every artist in K1 was using their own imagination and making it come to life!
VA: In the day time there are bears who likes to wake up and eat berries. There are trees and lots of snow. In the night time the bear sleeps so much under the moon light in the cave.
AR: In the day time it is sunny with a rainbow in the sky. At night time it is bright.
KES: Outside of Elsa's house is the blue sky, a bench, and yellow snow. At night time there are stars, sun, and moon, in the sky.
KEI: There is snow and it is dark at night time.
DEE: There are trees and it is dark at nigh!
MIC: Doodle saw two boxes and two dog balls. At night time there are star, trees, moon and one star is starting to break.
DEV: There is a house, trees, and raining rocks in the sky. At night time birds sleep in the nest in the dark sky with the moon.
SAS: In the day time there is sunshine and trees.
ENZ: In the day time you can see Darth Vader and rocks. At night time you can see Star Wars, a princess, and Darth Vader.
SHR: In the day time, you can see a snake and princess Rapunzel. She was happy to see the sun! At night time, she is sleeping and there was a mouse.
GAU: You can see a boat on the water and mountains in the day time. At night time we sleep and the mountain looks like a letter.
ALE: This is Chewbacca's home. I am outside. There is a window. It is in the night time. It is a special house because Chewbacca lives there.
AIS: I drew a dog and he is going to sleep. It is night time. He has a tree home. There is a bear looking at his tree. It is dark outside.
SAT: I painted all sand. There are snowballs. It is outside a boy's home. It is during the day, I see the sun. In the night time it is dark.
SPE: This is the night. The people are sleeping and the bad guys are trying to steal the candy. We are outside the treat's home. In the day time, I see candy rocks in the water. There is grass outside. The sun is shining, but it almost dark.
We hope you enjoy our artworks and stories!
With love,
Arlene and the artists of K1
The 4-5 year olds in K1 at International School of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland are making and sharing art with the 4-5 year olds in K2B class from San Patricio Colegio in Monterrey, Mexico.
Fresh air makes for a creative environment!
2016, Dear You Art Workshops, Mexico, Pre-School, South AfricaCommentDear Friends,
After enjoying the creation, fresh air, the wonderful sun and lovely coloured grass, we sat in a circle and imagined our favourite character. We talked about where our character lives, the surroundings and the colours in the environment. The children then used their pencils and created the different colours and patterns on the spirals.
We hope you enjoy our Art from the Early Childhood class at Oakdale Montessori!
The 4 to 6 year olds in the Early Childhood Class from Oakdale Preschool in Cape Town, South Africa are making and sharing art with Kinder C classes from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico.
From summer time in South Africa to sunny Mexico!
2016, 3 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Mexico, South AfricaCommentHello Mexico,
It is summer now here in South Africa, so the Toddler class really enjoyed this project. Our School is situated in a suburb called Oakdale and all around us are Oak leaves. So we decided to focus on Oak leaves and the summer flowers that are brightly coloured. Hope you enjoy our Art –
Love,
Oakdale Toddlers
The Toddler class, artists 18 months to 3 years old, from Oakdale Preschool in Cape Town, South Africa are making and sharing art with Nursery C from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico.
Autumn in Berlin
2016, 4 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Germany, MexicoCommentI am happy to send you some pictures of our wonderful artworks. Our kids depicted our environments as they see it - full of autumn colors and favourite places. You can hang our environments both from day side and from night side, they are equally beautiful!
Best regards,
Lusine
Lusine Boyajyan and her group of 4 year olds artists from Kita Felix and Friends in Berlin, Germany are making and sharing art with Angy Castillo and her Kinder A group from Colegio San Patricio in Monterrey, Mexico.
For many reasons, we are happy Monkeys!
2016, 5 years old, 6 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, MexicoCommentThe happy Monkeys just got happier! They were very excited to receive the lovely letter and artworks from K2B class in Mexico. Every part of the process was exciting- from reading the names of our friends to talking about Elmer the Elephant! Thank you! Kiitos! Gracias!
We first started talking about what we see when we walk out of the school. What is the environment like outside of Your School's doorstep? Monkeys talked about pine trees, birds, bushes, and now we have snow. Now the grass is covered with white snow.
Then we continued with our characters and where their homes are. We imagined if we were at our friend's home and stepped outside, what would we find. How would it look in the daytime and what about at nighttime? The Monkeys first used wax crayons to accentuate and outline shapes. When they painted over with watercolor this art technique helped highlight what they were trying to show in their painting.
K2B, we have a couple of questions for you. Do you have snow in Mexico? What do you like to do for fun?
We hope you like our artworks and we look forward to hearing from you!
Our best,
Arlene & 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.
Tigers are grateful for their gifts from Mexico. And then make more art!
2016, 4 years old, 5 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, MexicoCommentThe Tigers were so very happy to receive artworks from their friends from Mexico!! We read their letter and then proudly put their artworks on the classroom wall. Gracias amigos!
For the Look around project we started off by revisiting where our characters live. When we stepped out of our character's home, What did we see? What was there? What was the environment like? Everybody's imagination took them to a different place! We thought about what this environment looks like in the daytime and at nighttime. Using wax crayons and watercolors, we made our imagination come to life!
With love,
Arlene & the Tigers
The Tigers from Your School in Espoo, Finland are making and sharing art with Nursery A from Colegio San Patricio Cumbres in Monterrey, Mexico. Both groups of artists are 4 years old.
