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[elaineonteaching]

Stone Soup!

Our first project comes from a great story about friendship and generosity, and what can happen when a community comes together.

Day 1: - Read Stone Soup (I’m particularly fond of the Jon J. Muth Buddhist version.) - Discuss making our own Stone Soup: what ingredients, who to invite, when & where. - Make invitations. - Create a spreadsheet & invite families to contribute an ingredient.

Day 2: Figure out how much of each ingredient is needed (for 5 tables) when given a recipe for 1 table. We used 5 as the multiple to make the math more accessible but varied the amount of each ingredient to provide a range of difficulty (e.g. 1 carrot/table = __ carrots/5 tables, ¼ tsp salt/table = __ tsp salt/5tables). Students (in pairs) chose which ingredient to work on.

[sixtywatts]

Colour Theory Notes

Primary Colours- red, blue, yellow.

Secondary Colours- green, orange, purple.

Hue- the colour itself.

Saturation- intensity of the colour, how different the hue colour is from white.

Value- how bright or dark the colour is.

Colour can symbolise feelings or even cause them. For example some companies use different colours to manipulate how we feel during their commercials. Yellow is said to make you feel hungrier which is why McDonald's arches are yellow. Red can make you feel energetic and powerful, blue can make you feel calm, etc. You can use this to manipulate how people feel when looking at your art.

Basic Shapes- triangles, circles, rectangles.

Rectangles represent solidity, information, and regularity. 

Circles represent simplicity, infinity, love, harmony, togetherness, welcoming, etc.

Triangles represent harshness, importance, warning, pointedness, etc. 

In conjunction, shapes and colours can create moods in the most subconscious of ways. Because of the connotations of the thoughts that both colours and shapes bring separately, when used together, they can become an effective way of indirectly characterizing your characters, settings, art, etc. 

Originally published Friday September 12, 2014 on original blog.