Los+Arboles+de+la+vida

My 6th grade world Languages class completed their Tree of life projects. We studied how pottery is an important form of art in the Mexican culture. The students researched how the Tree of Life became a part of Mexico's art world. Originally The Tree of Life was used to tell the story of creation in the Bible.The 6th grade students as part of the World Languages curriculum have been studying cognates and Spanish. They were asked to create an original story about a young person in Mexico and include ten Spanish words and ten cognates. After they finished the story they recreated it in the Tree of life. As a performance based activity the culminating event was they read their story to the class and explained how their tree depicted the story. I was very fortunate to have two mothers, Mrs. Durant and Mrs. Antonelli come into the class and help with the clay sculptures. Mrs. Durant ( and Mr. Durant) did a wonderfu jobl creating all of the forms for the trees out of wood and wire hangers. I could not have done it without the parental support!