Specialist Program

ITALIAN NEWS 

 

While the Grade 6s were surfing, the Grade 5s had a stand alone cultural lesson on Murano. 

Murano is a small island next to Venice which is famous for its glass products. The students watched a video showing the island and some glass blowing in action. Their follow up activity was to create designs of glass vases and use tissue paper to create a transparent effect. 

 

 

Here are some images of real glass vases from Murano. (Sourced from Google images.)