A Ladner youngster has helped his mom complete art projects for fellow Grade 7 students that never got the opportunity to finish them.
Back in March, Grade 7 students from Dixon Elementary in Richmond and Britannia Elementary in East Vancouver joined together to attend their second session of a program at the Arts Connection in Steveston.
Ladner’s Jen den Hartogh, coordinator of the Reach to Teach program, says it was sad to have to cancel it early.
“It's run for a number of years now,” she says, “so right away I knew we had to somehow complete the art projects that the kids had started."
The concept was to collage money metaphors that were examined in a Blended Media class, but before students could finish the project, the program came to a grinding halt.
Once schools were closed, den Hartogh brought home the incomplete collages and along with her son Trey Wilson chipped away at them each week as a home learning project.
"It was a lot of work, but it looks like something kids will be proud of, I think," says Trey, a Grade 7 student at Hawthorne Elementary.
They set a goal to share the end results with all of the students as a parting gift in a PowerPoint presentation for both Grade 7 classes.
"It took a lot of discipline to complete as much of their art projects as possible,” says den Hartogh. “We hope it will gel their learning and leave a lasting memory of their Grade 7 experience."
The Reach to Teach Immersed in the Arts program supplies a healthy breakfast and chef-curated lunch to students who normally wouldn't have the chance to meet. And they get the opportunity to take four different art classes together
For more information on the program, visit www.theartsconnection.ca.
