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Informative Meeting of the Museum Workers with Rostov Students
20.11.2017
After the autumn school holidays the Museum workers met with the students of school No 96 “Evrika-Razvitiye” and gymnasium No 118 of Rostov-on-Don.
The program of the visiting classes was devoted to the life and work of the Great Russian writer M.A.Sholokhov and the everyday and spiritual culture of the Don Cossacks.
The children of the preparatory group of kindergarten No 96 “Evrika-Razvitiye” with excitement were preparing for the meeting with the Museum workers. Their expectations were met, the Museum workers offered them different kinds of activities. The children painted a steppe tulip “lazorik” on the transparent film in the technique of stained glass, coloured clay plates and salt dough horses, made colourful pictures of plasticine, souvenirs of clay, dolls of bast and played old games – “biryulki” and “kalechina-malechina”.
For the children of middle and senior forms different activities were offered to their liking.
During the interactive game “I Love My Horse” the Rostov students learned about the role of a horse in the life of a Cossack, in his fight against the enemy. At the workshop, the children made figures of horses of clay and bast, and a holiday arch, an element of the wedding harness of the horse.
“Cossack Kuren” is the heading of the museum class, where the children learned about different kinds of dwellings of the Upper Don Cossacks, the origin of their names, the features of construction materials and the interior of the living quarters.
The senior students with great attention and interest listened to the lectures about the family tree of M.A.Sholokhov, the beginning of the writer’s literary career, the history of the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don”, the prototypes of his characters and watched a fragment of the title film made by the film director S.Ursulyak.
The children took part in new master-classes on making pencil stands of paper, a broom-“amulet” of bast and butterflies of cotton fabric.
The classes were interesting and fruitful.
Svetlana Usova
