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Re: 30 mins (Sherry) - response

From: PicasoLovr
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 15:46:47 PST

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    Sherry:
        A clay unit can be done in two parts. One period of 30 minutes or more
    can be as exploratory in modeling clay. (The cheap oil based modeling clay
    that can be bought at a school warehouse for less than $1.00 for four long
    rectangles of colored clay.) They can build slab houses in this and coil pots
    and coil or pinch pot fruits and vegetables. This is just to get them to
    understand what forms they can create and get them used to the medium and its
    properties such as pulling, pinching, smoothing, carving, and scoring. The
    older grades have to draw their model on inexpensive computer paper when
    their done with their modeling clay. The next art period the real clay is
    already balled up for each student in a large bag with just enough for the
    class. When they don't see a lot of clay available, they tend to deal with
    what they have. I noticed that the biggest loud mouths in the class always
    want more clay. They make chimney's bigger than their houses!!!! They write
    their names on the paper plates and hand their clay forms on paper plates to
    be put on trays to dry. The good part is when they are ready to be fired I
    load the kiln, and just collect the paper plates to take home and mark in my
    grade book. I only take home the outstanding ones.
                                                        Lots of luck. 

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