Our Grade 7 children are currently learning about the Renaissance period in their history block. They are learning about the polymaths, scholars and artists from this period who managed to propose unique theories and execute masterpieces in their lives.
Most of us know the "Sistine Chapel ceiling", was one of the splendors of Michelangelo's creation. However, how many of us know or have wondered what Michelangelo must have felt like and the difficulties he must have faced painting a ceiling upside down?
So, yesterday, our Grade 7 were turned into mini Michelangelos and were allowed to create their own Masterpieces in Michelangelo style. Although Michelangelo painted the ceiling standing on a tall scaffolding craning his neck upwards, this was the closest experience that could be simulated for the children to develop deep reverence and wonder for the master artists of those times.
While deeply engaged in this activity many children asked for 2 years time to finish their work as they realised how difficult it must have been for Michelangelo to work upside down. Many said that their hands and neck was paining and they wondered how Michelangelo must have painted the whole of Sistine Chapel ceiling.
We knew then, that our work was done, this activity proved powerful, without many words the children were teleported to those times.
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