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| Groundwaters’ School Outreach Program By Pat Edwards |
| Through a grant awarded to Groundwaters in 2010, by the Oregon Country Fair’s Bill Wooten Endowment Fund, we were given funds and the opportunity to take local authors and artists into the area’s classrooms. Our objective was to foster, encourage and support creativity by providing area youngsters the opportunity to express themselves through writing or art and reward them by allowing them to see their work published outside of the classroom. We offered the area schools a selection of authors and artists who were willing to participate and the teachers in both the Fern Ridge and Crow- Applegate-Lorane School Districts were enthusiastic. Unfortunately, class schedules were filled for the remaining spring classes and finding time during fall term proved to be a challenge, as well. As a consequence, we were only able to conduct two workshops, both held at Lorane Elementary School. The teachers there invited Nick DeAngelo, a cartoonist whose comic strip, Just Add Water, appears in each issue of Groundwaters, as their featured guest. He and Jennifer Chambers of Groundwaters, worked with 45 students from kindergarten through sixth grade. They began the program with Nick interactively demonstrating cartoon techniques to the entire group by drawing a cartoon character. He had the children suggest features that they wanted him to include in the character that they created together. They then broke into two groups. The K-2 group was led by Jennifer who, with the help of the primary teachers, Jamie Ledgerwood and Nicole Glenn, worked with the students to create their own personalized ladybug cartoon characters. Nick and teacher, Nate Robertson, worked with the students in Grades 3-6 as they designed and drew their own comic strips. The finished drawings were collected from both groups; the students who had not completed theirs were given a few more days to do so. Pat Edwards scanned all of the drawings and created two chapbooks called Cartoon Capers and Ladybug Jamboree. Enough copies were published for each one of the participating students and their teachers to have their own personal copy, thereby giving them the opportunity to see their work in print. Nick and Jennifer received rave reviews from the teachers at Lorane. It was a fun experience for all. We thank not only Nick, Jennifer and the Lorane teachers, but the Oregon Country Fair, as well, for allowing us this rare opportunity to interact with the youth in the area. We are including some of the results of the workshops in our “Bubbling Up” section (pages 30-31). Thanks to all who participated! |