Oh, Mrs. Forrest and her grants! :) We love them!
The 8th grade is participating in a CAPE grant that Mrs. Forrest secured- CAPE stands for Chicago Arts Partnership in Education. The basic idea is that it brings an artist into our classroom for 15 instructional hours, the teachers (both me and the artist) attend professional development together, and the students get a unique opportunity to integrate art into their classroom learning! We are tackling concrete poetry and how to bring it to life through 3-D art... it promises to be a good time!
Our project needs 3-hour-chunks, so thank you to all the other teachers who are being flexible on our CAPE days and working around our 3-hour absence!