In my previous post about the fish, I was missing some information. That information was supplied very quickly after I posted My former colleague, Rae informed me that this was a combination art and science project. It's called artist in residence. For the whole week this artist takes over the art and science classes. At the end of the week they have many colorful fish and have learned about water and fish.
Schools here are on a school based budget.They have money for special projects so they bring people or groups in for week for a special project.
My son's very best girl told me there was one of these projects at a school she is familiar with and another person reported seeing a streams mural on a school fence.
So the next time I had better do more research when I post on one of my discoveries or I could just say that I learned much more by doing the post.
Now do some of you have a Streams mural at your school?
A few weeks ago someone posted about a mural on a fence. Aha, I said. I know where there's something similar beside me.
About 3 or 4 years ago an interesting art piece was placed on my neighborhood school fence. For about a 100 m a pattern of fish were attached to the fence. I thought, "Well, that looks nice but I wonder what it is." Well, I kept driving by the school 5 or 6 times a week. I always noticed the fish.
Now the fish were bright colors and many shapes. From the road it looked like they were ceramics. I was impressed.
I could only think that it was a very interesting school art project. So with the post a few weeks ago I decided I had to take a look at the fence mural. One afternoon I took my camera to take a look.
I was impressed. It was a project to teach kids about fish conservation. I'm sure the kids learned about different kinds of fish and fish habitat. They probably learned about fish anatomy. And the art project was a big part. I'm sure the kids will remember what they learned for a long, long time.
Someone cut out basic fish shapes from plywood. It looks like there were 5 or 6 different shapes and I'm sure each kid would get one of each pattern to paint. Some kids tried to paint a realistic fish such as speckled trout. Some were very, very good. Others had some very imaginary patterns.
So I've been driving by an interesting project for three or four years missing out on it's significance. How many other people have been passing by and not investigated?
So hats off the the kids, teachers and school for creating a very interesting project.
