What I learned from this first visit at the second school was how to really motivate students to get into the projects. I loved how the teacher had discussion, visual aids like videos, and warm up activities to really get the kids into making the artwork. It made the class go by fast and it made students really invested in the art when they got to make it. This was really different from our past observations, and I really admired how this teacher structured her class to be fun. What surprised me was how she could make such interesting projects, and it inspired me to think in the future about how to make inventive projects, even by story making like showing the kids a chopped clip and then having a reveal of the mystery food they were going to make art with and having that be Oreos so then after they sculpted they could eat it. I really enjoyed being in the class with how the teacher motivated and inspired her students and I could tell students were feeding off of that energy too.
I also appreciated how she involved the contemporary artist Heather Hanson and had the students arrange at the start of class pictures with abstract and realism art such as the Mona Lisa, and they did the same at the end and had discussion about how all art has value. That was a good opening project because then kids had plenty of time to learn about the artist and make art, but for the next class the opening project I feel could have just been a project on its own and when they were getting to the big thing they have been working on, flex tangles, lost momentum because they only had a short time to make it. I would have made the Oreos the main project, and had something small to work on for the short time after, and then had the other project on flex tangles and again a small project to work on for afterwords.