18:00 - 20:30
Egle started the lesson with a teaching walk as the weather was nice and after a long winter we were all happy to be outside in the sun. The task of the day was to measure objects or pieces of natural surroundings by using one object as a reference. So for example I used my palm to measure a water pump that I found outsde, some of the students used other found objects such as leaves, fruit, straws etc. We had to draw these objects and our observations and also take photographs. This was a really good observation exercise and forced us to think about space and how we relate to that space with our body.
After the group discussion inside we were more aware of how it is easier to measure the man made objects as they usually fit well with our bodies. So for example I found that the water pump outside had sections which were exactly length of my palm. The objects such as leaves and straws did not fit exactly in man made objects. One of the students also used a plum to measure her face and body. In addition measuring trees was not so exact as we could only measure up to the certain length of the tree and the rest of the length was very approximate, imagined in relation to the part we could measure.
These observations and sketches became part of the student's learning diary.
After the discussion we utilized some more of creative work method, which 'aims to utilise the student's ability to adopt new perspectives, to think new possibilities and alternatives' ( Hypponen & Linden, 2009, 53).
We moved to another drawing exercise where we had to imagine our portrait as a plant. This was also an interesting imaginative exercise, which brought out different impressions and moods. One of the students saw herself as the wine fruit and the drawing gave the impression of abundance and joy. She is also a singer and has been classically trained so somehow we agreed that wine fruits were a good representation of the many projects she is involved with and that it express her creativity. The other student saw herself as a birch tree, which is also the national tree of Finland. I imagined this exercise more as a merging of myself and the chosen plant. I liked the oak tree branches that I saw outside and had the image of the face and branches merging together, perhaps finding the balance in the strength of the oak tree.
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