tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27571510146247543772024-03-14T03:21:33.862-05:00The Artsy Fartsy Art RoomAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-33125933551028809002017-10-23T20:21:00.002-05:002017-10-23T20:23:06.757-05:00Royal Self-Portraits with 1st Grade<div style="text-align: left;">
This is the 2nd time I've done this project with my Firsts and it is just getting better. Check out the first time I did this project <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2017/01/royal-self-portraits-with-1st-grade.html">here</a>.</div>
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The next day we started with the book <i>Princess Smartypants </i>and talked about creating different backgrounds that would work well with the rest of our artworks like colors connected to their clothing or dragons if they made a knight. They used tempera cakes to paint their backgrounds.</div>
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For our gallery walk we lay the artwork on the tables and walk around looking at everyone's work. I put up this slide and pop in one of their artworks for a little excitement.</div>
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Then I pick three kiddos to share their work. They can say anything they want to about it before we do the "Hamburger". Whoever is sharing their work gets to pick three different friends to say the three statements "I Like (something they like about their art), "Maybe you could have (something they would have done different), and another "I like (something they like about their art).</div>
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Rubrics for 1st are pretty basic and we do them together the first few times. When they finished rubrics, if they wanted to do glitter, I showed that small group how to draw with glue where they wanted glitter to be.<br />
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I am so in love with these! Until next time!<br />
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These self-portraits are inspired by one of my favorite books <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Notable-Childrens-Books-Younger-Readers/dp/0152024883/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">"I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!" written by Karen Beaumont, Illustrated by David Catrow</a>, an Art Teacher book must have!<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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There are a lot of different versions of projects based on this book out there, I love doing it this way because they really get to play with the watercolors, and it is a great intake of drawing, painting, cutting, and writing skills.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've done this project many times in the past and it's made transformations over the years. Here are older posts if you are looking to see what I've done in the past and the project broken down a little more. Here is <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/11/aint-gonna-paint-no-more-self-portraits.html">November 2016</a>, <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2015/10/aint-gonna-paint-no-more-self-portraits.html">October 2015</a>, <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2015/06/kindergarten-aint-gonna-paint-no-more.html">June 2015</a>, and my first attempt in <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-aint-gonna-paint-no-more-portraits.html">June 2014</a>.</div>
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This project was inspired by contemporary illustrator <a href="http://jamesgulliverhancock.com/">James Gulliver Hancock</a> and his book <a href="http://jamesgulliverhancock.com/projects/all-the-buildings-in-new-york-book/">All The Buildings In New York</a> that was lent to me by one of my Elementary Art team memebers. </div>
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Take a minute to explore <a href="http://jamesgulliverhancock.com/">his website</a>. He is incredibly talented and does a large variety of work. I scrolled through a bit of his work with students and they loved it. I ended up buying another book of his which isn't appropriate for young students but is seriously amazing called <a href="http://jamesgulliverhancock.com/projects/artists-writers-thinkers-dreamers/">Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of 50 Famous Folk & All Their Weird Stuff</a> and I fell in love with it. You can get both books on Amazon.</div>
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So here is how the project went down, and it went fast and quick because it was their last 4 art classes of the year.</div>
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<b>I Can illustrate a building and print it to be a part of a collaborative installation art work.</b><br />
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First we looked at crazy architecture with this video:</div>
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Then, looked at his website and listened to illustrator James Gulliver Hancock:</div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/170113902">All the Buildings in Melbourne</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user2620799">James Gulliver Hancock</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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They had to finish drawing a building that filled most of a 6X9 piece of paper, without too much detail (because it won't print), and had to remember to flip any words like a stamp. I encouraged drawing directly with pen like our inspiration but didn't require it.</div>
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A quick demo of transferring to a printing plate that was cut the same size as their paper (6x9) and then they had the rest of the time to complete it so they could print next class. I just use the generic packs of foam printing sheets from School Specialty and cut them down to smaller sizes. We taped a hinge to keep drawings lined up when transferring. They traced once over/on the paper to get the initial lines then flipped up the paper and did it again to make it deeper with a dull pencil.<br />
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Printing! A quick demo of printing from the plates and then they had to find a printing buddy to work with and to assist. I cut sheets of every color construction paper I had, black and white tempera paint, and brayers for students to use. They had to print until they had AT LEAST 3 good prints, but could keep printing the entire time if they wanted. </div>
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We passed out prints, filled out the rubric and handed in the print that they wanted up in the the farewell 4th grade village and in artsonia. If they finished that, they could trade prints with friends and make mini villages. They took extra prints and mini villages with because it was the last day of art for most!</div>
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FINALLY did a dot project and finished it in time for <a href="http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/get-started">Dot Day</a>! I've wanted to do one the last few years but just never jumped on it or was inspired by something else first. This year, right before the start of the year a post on the Art Teacher facebook page caught my eye and I ran with it! This was the post by Art Educator Nichole Sitler Gates on the Art Teacher Facebook group that inspired our paintings:<br />
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I've got to give her credit because I ran it the same way based on what I saw in her pictures. Each table had a big sheet of bulletin board paper as well as a tray of paint cups with equal number of brushes so we didn't need to wash. Classes earlier in the day laid the base for classes that came after and when one paper was full I laid out another. So they started looking like the one below...</div>
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And ended up looking like this when all finished and hung together in the hallway! There are about 10 more not pictured because we ended up with so many! Very thankful for our giant empty hallway by the front of the building....<br />
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With Kindergarten in the middle of the day, I was a little nervous about letting them paint for the first time EVER on these already started dot paintings. So instead they painted on 24x36 papers (two at a table) and I turned those paintings into the lettering. I also put out less paint to keep the stimuli a little lower for their eagar hands.</div>
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I've gotten so many comments and compliments from students and staff about how much they brighten our school and I cannot wait to look at them all year!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-932372801359245932017-09-17T15:12:00.000-05:002017-09-25T21:05:03.925-05:00Back in Action!I've been MIA on the blog since February (sorry 'bout that). I instagram daily by the same name-- follow me on the sidebar of my blog or search <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theartsyfartsyartroom/">TheArtsyFartsyArtRoom</a> on Instagram.<br />
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I wanted to kick the new school year off on the blog with a look into my room and some new things I am trying this year as well as a re-vamp of some others!<br />
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Welcome to the Art Room at Yahara Elementary (K-4) in DeForest, Wisconsin!</div>
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I am so grateful to have such an incredible space for my students. A spot to gather, two large sinks, technology, plenty of space to work, and storage! </div>
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I am even lucky enough to have my own little nook where students are restricted from. I also got rid of my big clunky desk (that I never sat at) to open up more space for early finishers and to add a book rack for the kids.</div>
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This is will be my third year in the district and I am always inspired by other art educators to try new things with my students. So here is a look into some of the new and revamped old things happening in my room this year.</div>
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Traveling Classroom Sketchbooks</h3>
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When it was her daughter's turn with the sketchbook she was so excited that she brought it to school and showed it to me. I knew I had to do it! I took some quick pictures of the sketchbook and worked from there to put together my own system for our school.<br />
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Below is what is attached to the inside front covers for families and each time a student takes it home I put a label with their name on their pages they can use and the date it needs to come back to school.<br />
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I started these with 1st-4th the second time they came to art this year. I tried choosing responsible students from each class to take it home but I have had two students already forget it. Hopefully there is enough days of art and it won't happen very often and everyone will get a turn. I am contemplating sending out a parent e-mail so they can be more aware of it when it comes home with their student.<br />
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I made it a point to communicate with classroom teachers that I was doing this so they can encourage the responsibility of it and let me know of students that may have an issue with getting it back to school. I also communicated with students that it doesn't have to be done at home either, they could do it with after school care, another teacher, or our principal.<br />
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I save about 3 minutes after clean up for the artist to sit on my teacher stool and share what they did in the sketchbook. They they are not talking much, I prompt them with questions about materials and inspiration sources.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Our district and the surrounding Madison area are doing a lot of work with mindfulness in the schools. UW Madison in particular does a lot of research on Mindfulness and it is trickling into the entire public school system in the area. Training for staff and working in the classroom with students is on the rise and it is pretty incredible.</span></div>
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Last year I dabbled in mindfulness with a bell at the start of class and a deep breath followed by us reading together...<br />
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"Artists are kind with our bodies, Artists are kind with our words, Artists are kind with our minds, Artists are kind with our hands"<br />
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We also have this bizarre extra time built into our schedules every day called Plus Time where every grade gets two extra specials during our 12 day rotation BUT we can't do curriculum with them during that time.<br />
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At a mindfulness training I took over the summer I got my hands on this incredible book and it inspired an awesome idea. During that plus time with 1st-4th I have them participate in mindful visualizations and drawings. I find some sort of youtube visual that goes with the visualization I am reading for those kiddos that can't just lay there and need something a little more to focus on. It is going off incredible and I can't wait to share the art coming out of it on a later post. For the time being, I do not do it with Kindergarten but probably will start to mid-year.<br />
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I purchased the first book from this series, there are two more that my other elementary art team members purchased. You can find them all on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Imaginations-Relaxation-Stories-Meditations-Kids/dp/1463512023">amazon</a>.<br />
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I started a "Look What We Learned" board outside of the art room. I believe this idea came from the ever incredible Cassie Stephens. The way I presented this to my students was a place to share their "Aha!" moments and things they were really proud of in the art room. I think as long as I am reminding and encouraging students they can add to it, I think it will get used on a regular basis. Two weeks in, and there is already a handful up on the board (this was taken before school started).</div>
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Sound familiar? This new greeting I do with my students when they come into the room and get seated on the carpet-- I can also thank Cassie Stephens for. The kids match my voice and it lets them say something and be loud before we settle in with the mindfulness bell. It has been working AWESOME. </div>
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Focusing on shapes while teaching architecture to K&1 seem to be a perfect fit. Around Christmas and during winter adds a whole other creative layer for students!</div>
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I Can identify the shapes in my artwork.<br />
I Can tell you what an architect does.<br />
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Day 1: Intro to Architecture and Building<br />
If you want a great story for introducing architecture read <i>Iggy Peck, Architect </i>by Andrea Beaty it is easy to understand and just the right amount of silly.<br />
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I started our lesson with that story and then had them watch this StoryBots video to reinforce.<br />
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We talked about all the different kinds of buildings they saw in the book and video and afterwards I had them think-pair-share about what they were going to build using shapes. We did this before they saw my example and my demo video so they wouldn't be set on building a house like mine. </div>
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Because identifying and not creating the shapes was the goal of the lesson I provided cardboard tracers of the basic shapes in all different sizes. If they wanted to draw shapes other than those basic ones they were encouraged to do so. They used glue sponges to assemble their buildings.</div>
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Day 2: Shape Graphing and Details.<br />
To put the focus back on the shapes, we started this second day with the book <i>Shape Shift</i> by Joyce Hesselberth.<br />
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Then using my artwork as an example, together we graphed out on a basic bar graph, the shapes I used to build with.<br />
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They were then asked to do the same with their artwork. We did this before adding details with construction paper crayons to avoid the confusion of graphing any shapes they might draw. They could have included those shapes when graphing, but I wanted to keep it consistent and make sure I knew what they were looking at when I graded.</div>
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After they finished graphing we met back on the carpet and they watched my demo of adding details with construction paper crayons and brainstormed all the different details they could add. It was close to Christmas when we worked on these so there was a lot of Christmas related ideas. Pokemon is the big thing right now so that inspired a lot of kiddos too. Some decided on a combo of both!</div>
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Day 3: Snow and Architecture Centers.</div>
To wrap up this lesson and unit we started with the book <i>Snow</i> by Uri Shulevitz. It has great pictures of a city (architecture!) during a snowfall which was perfect segway into the snow part of the project.<br />
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They watched my demo video of adding snow with a small paintbrush and Q-tips and were sent to explore the different architecture centers I had set up for them. Many were building toys like blocks, legos, straws and connectors, and also coloring sheets of different types of buildings. While they were exploring the centers I called them back in small groups to add snow if they wanted to add it. They did not have to.<br />
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Just LOVE this lesson and how they put all their awesome individual ideas into them. They are now on display at our district office because I loved them so much :)</div>
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Back in December I posted about how I was incorporating more play into my art room especially with K and 1 students, you can read it<a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/12/observational-leaf-drawings-and-play-in.html"> here</a>. This lesson with K&1 was another where I loaded on the play. So much so, my students thought I was crazy.</div>
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I Can mix primary colors to get secondary colors.<br />
I Can identify primary colors.<br />
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Day 1: Baking Cookies<br />
If you aren't ready to make a fool out of yourself then you might not be ready for this. Let me set the stage...Before my students came in, I took flour I brought from home and put smudges of it all over me. As they walked in the room, I had a picture of a kitchen on the SMART board and had an empty mixing bowl that I was stirring with a spatula. Behind me "in my kitchen", a toy oven borrowed from a Kindergarten room. We didn't start with our regular routine as I was too busy mixing my cookies. They thought I was bonkers but the laugher and excitement was contagious.<br />
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Once the initial shock was over and they settled, I asked each student to go their table spot with a real rolling pin (that we use for clay) and wait for me to bring them dough. This dough was totally imaginary that I plopped in front of them out of my big mixing bowl. As they were rolling out the imaginary dough, I quickly had their dough "appear" by putting a piece of heavy weight manilla tag at their spot as if the dough became visible when rolled flat.<br />
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At this time I fessed up that we were pretending and they came up to the carpet to watch my demo of tracing cookie cutters and cutting them out. Cookie cutters can be a bit tough to trace so I put emphasis on the idea that cookies in real life don't turn out perfect either. This alleviated some of the pressure. And, I told them they didn't need to use the cookie cutters at all if they didn't want to. They were asked to make 4 cookies to make sure they were able to do all the "frosting" next art time. They also watched my demo of decorating a plate and gluing my cookies on it. I showed them some festive plates for inspiration but encouraged them to decorate however they wanted.<br />
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When they were done tracing and cutting their cookies out they had an opportunity, if they wanted it, to "bake" their cookies in our play oven on pans I created out of cardboard and tinfoil. I really played into it by making sure they wore my oven mitts from home when taking the pans out because they were "hot". Yes, there were some students who did not want to use the oven but I would say 95% percent did and loved it.<br />
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In my 8 total classes of K& 1 not one section asked to do free art this day.<br />
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Day 2: Frosting with Primary Colors<br />
We kicked off the day by reading the beautiful story, <i>Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons</i> written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.<br />
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When it was time to paint, to help with the success of the color mixing I printed 24 of the document below in color and had them laminated. Students did their color mixing right on these papers, I did one mix at a time going around the room squeezing out the colors onto their papers. They were asked to use each of their new colors on their cookies and to experiment with the paint for whatever cookies they had left. When they finished they gave the sheets a "shower" (under the running water) in the sink--not a "bath" (submerged) or the sheets don't last as long. The sheets made it through all 8 classes. You would have to reprint and laminate each year but its worth it, they really worked.</div>
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Now we did this project/lesson as if they were Christmas cookies but there is no reason you couldn't do it for any other time of year and just switch cookie cutters or do without the cutters. Valentine's Day would be fun!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-24340768837768452572017-01-16T08:00:00.000-06:002017-01-16T08:00:16.173-06:00Australian Aboriginal Dot Art (2016)This project was a total hit last year so I used it again with 3rd grade. Check out the <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/03/3rd-grade-australian-aboriginal-dot-art.html">original post with lesson break down here</a>.<br />
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The only thing I changed was paint distribution. I have 3oz cups with lids and I put one of each color on a tray and a stick for dotting with each. Each table got one tray and it really kept paint from being wasted and DRAMATICALLY helped with cleanup. No washing paint palettes like last year!<br />
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Once again, this project was a hit and turned out just beautiful!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-79782956135402213092017-01-09T08:00:00.000-06:002017-01-09T08:00:02.942-06:00Royal Self-Portraits with 1st Grade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I usually do the same projects for K&1 but for the start of the year I like to do the <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/11/aint-gonna-paint-no-more-self-portraits.html">Ain't Gonna Paint project </a>with my kinders. So, while kindergarten was painting all over themselves, first grade became royal!<br />
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I can use details in my self-portrait that make me look royal.<br />
I can paint an organized background.<br />
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Day 1: Look and Draw<br />
Read a really fun book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Knight-Afraid-Dark-Picture-Puffins/dp/014054545X">"The Knight Who Was Afraid of the Dark"</a> and did a really fun activity to kick off this lesson--I put a variety of pictures of royal people real and cartoon on the smartboard and paired off kiddos with dry erase boards. They had to work together to draw or write the details they saw that made the people look royal. Then together, we combined our ideas into a big list. After this activity, they watched my demo of drawing my royal portrait and got busy drawing. I had a big stack of books from the library for visual reference for them to use as well.<br />
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Day 2: Outline and Color<br />
The next day they spent outlining and coloring but we started with a story out of the book<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Pirate-One-Wild-Brother/dp/0545042410">"A Princess, A Pirate, And One Wild Brother"</a>. It has three stories in it, we just read the princess one. When it was work time, there was a little roadblock --I asked them to outline in the color they were going to be coloring things in with--not many were able to do that, or forgot, or just didn't focus enough to accomplish that. Thinking about it now, it wasn't that important to color match, so we will probably just go all black sharpie the next time I do this lesson, especially with painting later on (if they were not super controlled with their paint their water soluble marker lines blurred or smeared).We colored with crayons and I really pushed kids to improve coloring skills.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 3: Painting sparkles and metal<br />
We started with a rather interesting TumbleBook--<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Justina-Albertina-Ellen-Davidson/dp/1570916527">"Princess Justina Albertina"</a>--it's worth the read/watch. After their coloring was finished I put out metallic and sparkle paint in all different colors for them to add details with to their self-portrait. Sparkles and shiny paint are REALLY exciting to first graders so we had a bit of chat about what would actually sparkle or shine in real life. Also chatted about being in control of our choices and really thinking about what we were doing before we did it. Impulse control baby! I only had a few kiddos go really REALLY overboard with the sparkles but there was also behavior issues involved there.<br />
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Day 4: Background painting.<br />
Started with another digital story about a King--<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-That-Missed-David-Melling/dp/0764154516">"The Kiss That Missed"</a> done by Storyline Online.<br />
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Then it was time to paint, tempera cakes are one of my favorite materials for background painting. They don't wrecked/ruined easily and they produce really beautiful colors--so just about everything looks good! We talked about making choices in the background that make our background look on purpose and organized.<br />
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Another plus of tempera cakes is they dry fast so when they were done painting, I did the unthinkable--GLITTER. They used a glue bottle to draw where they wanted glitter then brought it over to me at the glitter station where we sprinkled glitter and put it on the drying rack.</div>
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This might have to be a repeat in the future with just a few changes. Also, there are some great Tumble Books available and books from Storyline Online that you could use for lessons and give your voice a break. Check out all the ones they have!</div>
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Our school district has a tradition of our 4th grade students designing the yearbook cover for the district's joint elementary yearbook that includes our four elementary schools.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">All 4th grade students create a cover and then myself and the other elementary art teachers send them up to the middle school to be selected by the middle school art teachers. One gets chosen for the overall cover, four get chosen for the back cover, and a few others get chosen for the start of each school inside the yearbook.</span></div>
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It is a VERY long process that has to be done at the start of the year because covers need to be completed by the end of November. We tried to shorten the time this year but somehow it still look 2 months! </div>
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I started with my students exploring old yearbooks and mapping out why they think the covers got selected. Then they used the sheet below to practice skills and generate ideas/sketches. The themes we selected for them to work from were "Kindness Begins with Me","Dare to Dream", and "Anything But Ordinary".</div>
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They conferenced with me after their sheet was done and created a rough draft without coloring, conferenced with me again, and then started on their finals. In the past coloring goes out the window in big areas so to help prevent that I had <a href="https://store.schoolspecialty.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?minisite=10206&item=2048227">color sticks by crayola</a> for them to use in large areas. If you haven't used color sticks they are essentially a naked colored pencil. No wood surrounding the color core.<br />
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Here is last years<a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/01/4th-grade-yearbook-covers-2015.html"> post and covers</a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-47371455634325127042016-12-11T19:15:00.000-06:002016-12-11T20:48:13.270-06:00Observational Leaf Drawings and Play in the Art RoomI'll admit it, the title of this post sounds a little contradicting but I've been inspired to try a new way of teaching with my kindergarteners and first graders and hopefully I'll inspire you to try the same!<br />
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I Can draw leaves that look realistic.<br />
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Day 1: Drawing the leaves.<br />
We started with the beautiful video below of a timelapse of fall.<br />
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After the video both Kindergarten and First grade did a "I Know, I Wonder, I Noticed" activity looking at real leaves that I brought in from my back yard. The activity went like this: They turned and told the people around them what they knew about leaves, I paraphrased conversations I heard; they turned and told the people around them what they wondered about leaves, I paraphrased conversations I head; I sent them to their tables to look at variety of leaves with a magnifying glass, and I paraphrased the things I was hearing them notice. After this activity we came back to the carpet to watch my demo video of drawing the leaves with black oil pastel. Because observational drawing is a more difficult concept for K and 1, I found it helpful to use my document camera and "think out-loud" what I was seeing as I was drawing. We had a conversation about not drawing what our brain told us a leaf looked like but what our eyes told us. Then I sent them on their way to draw. Check out the Boomerang of drawing in action.<br />
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FYI, Boomerang is my new favorite thing to do for videos so expect to see a lot of those in the future.<br />
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Now I have to warn you, this was a CHALLENGE (for the kinders especially). There was a few tears here and there but it was SO worth it, and to see the end result be successful nonetheless!<br />
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Day 2: Wind, Color "scavenger hunt", and Painting.<br />
I LOVE surprises and when my students get excited, so when they came to art next, I read them a story about a windy day and had them draw wind lines on their leaf artwork with white crayons. They looked at me like I was nuts but I told them to trust me and that it would be a surprise. After this, I had students come back to the carpet. I wanted to give them a little time to forget about the wind they just drew.<br />
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This next part is where some of the new way of teaching for me starts to come into the lesson. This summer I attended a PLC conference that had a lot of sessions on engagement. I went to one session with a huge take-away--<b>make sure my students don't have a choice but to be engaged 100% of the time</b>. That seemed like an incredibly hard task to accomplish, however, slowly but surely I am figuring out how to make that happen.<br />
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I showed a variety of artworks where each notable artist was inspired by fall. I had crayon buckets scattered on the carpet and gave them the direction to pull out the three most important colors that they saw in each artwork. We did this at least 10 times until they noticed a trend in the colors we were pulling out. Tada! Our fall color scheme and the colors we were going to use to paint the leaves. And guess what, EVERY kiddo was pulling out crayons and in on the lesson. Not one kid was crawling around on the floor, making animal noises, or distracting their peers. IT. WAS. AWESOME. And all I did was use crayons and not even for their actual purpose.<br />
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After this engaging activity, I showed them my demo video and gave each table a set of liquid watercolors with red, orange, yellow, brown, and a little green. They could paint any way they wanted--a messy wash across the entire painting, filling in some leaves, filling in all the leaves, it was up to them. When they started painting the "oooos" and "ahhhhs" 'MY WINDs"and "OH MY GOSHes" started to happen when they noticed their wind was there after all and I wasn't crazy. Again, an awesome Boomerang of painting in action.<br />
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Day 3: Raking time.<br />
In October I attended a different conference, the Wisconsin Art Ed conference and attended a session on play in the Art Room. Below are two slides directly from the presentation that summarize why play is so stinkin' important and why I did what I did next.<br />
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THIS was the absolute best part of the lesson. THIS is what I was waiting for since the day I went to that session. THIS very awesome third day of the project they made rakes, cut up their leaf paintings, threw the leaves, raked them, collected them and took them home. It was awesome to watch them play with their art and be engaged in their art making and not ONE kid was stressed or complained about cutting up their artwork. Below is my rake, I had a demo video like usual for creating the rake and cutting the leaves in a very stress free, on-lines-don't-matter kind of way.<br />
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I asked local hardware stores to donate paint sticks for the handles and used white tag board for the rake part. I did draw tick marks of where to cut the diagonal for both grades and squares to cut for kinders to make the teeth. I tried not having the squares for the first class of kinders and it was about 100000000 times harder for them, but 1st had no issues. We did do the diagonal cutting together on the carpet in both grades to ensure the highest number of success. They decorated their leaves while I went around and masking taped the paintstick handles on. Enjoy the short little Boomerang of them raking.</div>
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MAN OH MAN am I excited to keep teaching this way for the rest of the year with this bunch. They're not the only ones who will be having fun. And just in case it needs to be said, and I don't think it does. THIS is why professional development opportunities are so important for Art Teachers.</div>
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Here is a look at the "Artist Book" I created for my second graders to use each time they are introduced to a new artist. Second grade curriculum is all focused on artists so this is a great way to track what they learned.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The pages are pre-3-hole punched and the books are held together with brad fasteners. Each page gets added as we go. As a side note, if students are behind on projects I do the writing for them, they dictate to me to save time.<br />
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I've done this project quite a few times now and it's still my favorite way to start the year with Kindergarten. Check out lots of posts on this project <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2015/10/aint-gonna-paint-no-more-self-portraits.html">via this post</a>.<br />
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The portraits are inspired by one of my favorite books <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Notable-Childrens-Books-Younger-Readers/dp/0152024883/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">"I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!" written by Karen Beaumont, Illustrated by David Catrow</a>, an Art Teacher book must have!<div>
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This is a favorite project for me that will probably be a repeat every year---it's a good way to get my 2nd graders to just relax! Check out my previous posts for this project <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2015/11/matisse-paper-cutouts-with-2nd-grade.html">here </a>and <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2014/10/drawing-with-scissors.html">here</a>.<br />
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Made a few big changes to the project including a pretty big emphasis on geometric and organic shapes and using glue sponges.<br />
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<b>I Can tell you something about the artist Henri Matisse.</b><br />
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<b>I Can identify and sort organic and geometric shapes.</b></div>
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Introduced Matisse with this great video!</div>
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Then we looked at his artwork and discovered that he used a lot of shapes and dived into organic vs geometric. After we talked about organic and geometric shapes, they paired up with dry erase boards and I put different shapes up on the SMART board and they had to identify them as organic or geometric. After a few rounds of that, I showed them my example and told them to start cutting (without much instruction) and gave them a large envelope to keep pieces in.<br />
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Reviewed organic and geometric shapes using <a href="https://www.plickers.com/">Plickers</a> (USE IT, you only need 1 device!). As a review of Matisse they filled out their <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/01/2nd-grade-artist-books.html">artist book pages</a>,which have gotten a little revamp from last year. I'll update on those soon. After their page was filled out I showed them my demo of cutting a variety of shapes and sizes in different ways to get their wheels turning. They spent the rest of the time cutting away and adding to what they already had cut last time with reminders to be cutting both organic and geometric.<br />
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Reviewed the shapes with a little shape sorting as a whole class using laminated shapes. Then they heard a Matisse book that I highly reccommend. <i><span style="font-size: large;">Henri's Scissors </span></i>by Jeanette Winter, found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Henris-Scissors-Jeanette-Winter/dp/1442464844">here on Amazon</a>.</div>
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After the story we watched my demo video of arranging and gluing and talked about composition. "Bad" examples are always important during this step for my kiddos to really understand what makes a composition work (and not work). <div>
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The second big change for the project was using glue sponges to assemble their artworks. It made a HUGE difference in craftsmanship and glue amounts...i'll NEVER go back for this project. Not everyone finished gluing so I had them toss out or take with their extra paper that they weren't using on their projects and only had them put the pieces they were using on their projects back into their envelopes. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love this little section--started off as a gun (a no go!) and transformed into a spigot! </td></tr>
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Students who didn't finish last time had time to finish and we wrapped up by filling out <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/01/2nd-grade-artist-books.html">part 2 of our artist book page</a> and filling out a rubric for the project that included a shape assessment. Check it out, let me know what you think. My elementary art team has been working super hard on developing rubrics this year...</div>
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Love love love love LOVE this project. The color! The shapes! The movement! They just can't go wrong...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-42186619094888999902016-10-31T19:01:00.000-05:002016-10-31T19:01:01.357-05:00Happy Halloween!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Holidays are my favorite way to play catch up with classes that are behind on projects for one reason or another....and I also LOVE excuses to dress thematically. </div>
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Enjoy these awesome pumpkins created by Kindergarten through 4th grade students! </div>
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This one was inspired by the awesome old school Disney animation I showed 1st-4th at the start of class! Check out the Disney animation "Silly Symphonies: Skeleton Dance" below!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-15061568219723589372016-10-31T18:30:00.000-05:002016-10-31T18:30:35.857-05:00Back to School Collaborative Self-Portraits!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sorry I've been missing since mid-August but it's been a very busy start of the year and I have a lot of exciting things to start sharing again!</div>
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This project has been floating all over the internet and I was finally inspired to do it myself after <a href="https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2016/08/in-art-room-mini-monochromatic-self.html">this post</a> and<a href="https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2016/09/in-art-room-monochromatic-selfie-mural.html"> this post</a> from Cassie Stephens! Love LOVE LOOOOOVVVVEEE the way it turned out!</div>
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This was the perfect way to kick off the year and get almost all 400ish students busy making art on the first day. </div>
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<b>I Can draw a self-portrait and color it using one color to make a collaborative artwork.</b></div>
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1st grade through 4th grade started their first day of art with the art room scavenger hunt you see below... I got the idea from an instagram post but I just can't seem to find it again to give the credit this idea deserves! I had students work in teams and I helped read when needed. They went to the location in the room that matched the circle and found a color there. They filled in the circle on their sheet with the color they found. It was a great refresher for everyone and perfect for new students. </div>
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After they finished the scavenger hunt I talked about the art piece they were going to create collaboratively showing them an example of another completed one so they understood why they were just using one color. I showed them my demo video of me drawing and then they got busy. I gave them white 4x4 squares, cartooning sheets to look at for inspiration, and a black felt tip pen to draw with.</div>
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Kindergarten spent Day 1 hearing the book <i><span style="font-size: large;">Art Today!</span></i> (HIGHLY recommend for the first day for Kinders)<u>,</u> going on a tour of the art room, and drawing me anything they wanted so I could get a skills intake.</div>
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The book is a bit hard to find but <a href="http://www.crystalproductions.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=CP7240&type=0&eq=&desc=Art-Today!-(Wolfgang)&key=it#">Crystal Productions</a> does sell it. </div>
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Each table got a box of art supplies <u>in their color only.</u> This was SO worth taking the time to do. In the box there was colored pencils, regular crayons as well as glitter, metallic, and construction paper crayons, skinny markers, fat markers, fluorescent markers, and sharpies. They could use any material anywhere with the exception of marker on their face so it wouldn't cover their features. They also had to color the entire square.<br />
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It didn't take the entire time for them to finish but I anticipated that so they could have time to explore new items in the art room.<br />
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After seeing <a href="https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2016/09/in-art-room-monochromatic-selfie-mural.html">Cassie's final product</a>, if I do this again I will think of a different way to assemble or go BIGGER for a bigger impact on the walls. It was so fun watching students search for theirs!</div>
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This project (<a href="http://www.artwithmre.com/2016/01/blast-off-kindergarten-mixed-media.html">inspired by Art with Mr. E's</a>) is officially one of my new favorites for K&1. It was a great review for lines and a super fun exploration of materials!</div>
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Day 1: Reviewing lines. Line paintings.<br />
Lines are one of the first things we visit in the year so I love doing a refresher project on them at the end of the year. To kick this project off I drew a picture on the SMART Board that contained all the lines they learned previously and they took turns coming up and finding them. Then we did some whole body fun by having groups of students make the different types of lines with their bodies! Just an observation: my classes that were most behaviorally challenging ended up doing the best with this activity.<br />
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After these activities they went to their seats and drew each type of line with a sharpie. Then they got to explore their first new material--metallic watercolors. Not really a "new" material as far as watercolors go but still VERY exciting for them to see sparkles and shine! I really encouraged them to have their colors touch but it was a little hard of a concept because many just tried to follow the line and not make the bands of color. I also had a glitter tempera paint station set up for them to add MORE sparkles if they wanted. Obviously they wanted it.<br />
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Day 2: Building Rocket Ships. Assessment.<br />
Tracers. I always go back and forth on using them or not. But, an old principle (and art department head) once told me that as long as the learning goal isn't creating that specific shape they are ok. So, that's what I did. Each part of the rocket ship had a tracer: the main body, the wings, and the booster. After they watched my demo video on using the tracers and gluing the pieces together I let them run wild with a huge variety of papers with different textures and patterns. This was our second material that they explored.<br />
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Because the process of building the rockets was very independent, I used this time to pull students over to me for a verbal assessment to identify the different types of line. I had the lines drawn on a piece of paper and they went through and named as many as possible. Each student took about 30 seconds or less which made a very quick and easy assessment. The one little bump was a student would come over to ask me something while I was assessing another and they would spit out the answer before the kiddo getting assessed could answer.<br />
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Day 3: Adding the rocket streams and backgrounds.<br />
We started the day talking about creating the rocket stream out of their line paintings. Again they watched my demo video and brainstormed the different shapes the stream could be and how it was okay if we cut some of our lines off. Then they added their rocketship to black paper and added some amazing details with our last material exploration -- metallic markers. I pre-punched stars on metallic paper that they could add as well and more tempera glitter paint. One last option for them was adding an astronaut. Again, I provided a tracer. The success rate overall on this project was so high and each was its own beautiful individual work of art with so much personality showing through.<br />
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If you havn't seen <a href="http://www.artwithmrsnguyen.com/2014/05/radial-paper-relief-sculptures-4th5th.html">Art with Mrs.Nguyens posts on these babies</a> (this is just one of her many posts on it) then you have been seriously missing out. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Radial-Symmetry-Paper-Relief-Project-Art-and-Math-Fractions-and-Symmetry-1436727">Her TpT lesson for these</a> is worth every penny and worked perfectly for my 4th graders. I did change up the powerpoint a bit to fit my style but other than that I used all of her resources, including the video teaching the folds. </div>
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I Can create a relief sculpture using paper that has radial symmetry.<br />
I Can use color in an organized way.<br />
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Before you do anything to start this project, cut about a billion* pieces of 3x3 construction paper in all different colors. After cutting I divided up into ice cream buckets, one for each table.<br />
*There is really no way to know how much of what colors they will use. I started with 4 pieces of 12x18 construction paper of every color that I had and cut more as they used them.<br />
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Day 1: Learning and practicing radial symmetry.<br />
Using the awesome powerpoint by Mrs. Nguyen and modified by me, I introduced radial symmetry to my students and then we spent the rest of class with my buckets of "junk" making radial symmetry on big 24x24 sheets of paper. The paper has basic radial symmetry guidelines drawn on them and students work in table teams to create the most interesting radial symmetry.<br />
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My only warning with this is sometimes they get carried away with the "junk" and start getting in fights about what table has what and who can borrow and who can't. Squash it fast.<br />
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Day 2: Review radial symmetry and learn the folds. Talk about organized color.<br />
After a review of radial symmetry I show them the handouts that teach the folds and we watch the video of learning the folds (both by Mrs. Nguyen) together. Then they grab one piece of 3x3 paper for each fold and go back to their seats. We watch the video again, pausing where needed to follow along making the folds. This process worked really well because those that got it right away kept going and those that didn't followed slowly with the video.<br />
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After we finished all the folds they went nuts folding whatever they wanted to use for their project and put them in a big envelope with their name on it for next class. Students that had more difficulty with the folds met me at the carpet and we went through the video again (maybe 1 or 2 kiddos per class). A little ways through I brought them all back up front to talk about our I Can statement of using color in an organized way. They had a choice of either using color symmetrically or using patterns and balance with color. I showed a lot of examples from Mrs. Nguyen's powerpoint.<br />
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Day 2: Another review, folding the background.<br />
We reviewed radial symmetry again by looking at a variety of pictures and they had to use <a href="https://plickers.com/">plickers</a> to tell me if the image had radial symmetry or not. Check out the video below to see how plickers works. Its seriously the best. AND FREE. AND students LOVE it.<br />
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After that they grabbed the black paper (12x12 square) and we walked through the folds together as a class to get the folded guidelines for their paper relief sculptures.<br />
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At this point the workflow became different for different students. Some wanted to fold everything before gluing and some folded and glued at the same time. It didn't matter to me as long as I could see them making smart choices in their art.<br />
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I <b>highly</b> recommend using glue sponges for this project. It allowed for such clean and beautiful work. We used popsicle sticks to rub down the paper that was in a tight space if their fingers wouldn't fit.<br />
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Days 3-6: Workdays and extensions.<br />
Give them a lot of time on these, it is so very worth it and hopefully they will love this project as much as mine did. Towards the end when some were finished and some weren't, I had two follow up activities they could do. Make a radial symmetry drawing out of their favorite things, or make a group radial symmetry paper relief sculpture on 24X24 paper. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-9393505416122685842016-07-26T11:10:00.000-05:002016-07-26T11:10:31.082-05:00Painted Paper Shape Bird HousesThere was so many great birdhouse lessons floating around Pinterest this year that I was inspired to try a version of my own. Just to name a few, inspiration came from these posts from these blogs: <a href="http://artiswhatiteach.blogspot.com/2015/03/1st-and-2nd-grade-bird-collages.html" target="_blank">For the Love of Art</a>, <a href="http://kidsartists.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-best-nest.html" target="_blank">Kids Artsits</a>, <a href="http://www.artwithmrsnguyen.com/2014/03/birdhouses-and-birds-on-wire-1st-2nd.html" target="_blank">Art with Mrs. Nguyen</a>, and <a href="http://www.paintedpaperart.com/2012/02/birds-of-a-feather/" target="_blank">Painted Paper Art</a>. <br />
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I Can create a birdhouse using 5 or more shapes.<br />
I Can identify the shapes I use in my birdhouse.<br />
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Day 1: Painted Paper!</div>
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I recently just got to the painted paper party so we had to take an incredibly fun week in Kindergarten and First to make a lot of painted paper. Each day in the rotation was in charge of one color. Each student got to make a 18x24 piece of paper that got cut down into 4 smaller ones when dried.<br />
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Day 2: Birds!</div>
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They did a bird draw along with me straight with sharpie. While drawing, we talked about all the ways they could make them different and give them different personalities even though they were all following the same basic drawing. For painting, they used smaller brushes and all colors were made available. I wasn't planning on the birds being more than three colors, the plan was body one color, wings and tail another color. However, I forgot to say that and it naturally took off to paint them in any way possible! Some ended up with stripes, some with polka dots, and some with every color. They turned out more beautiful than I imagined, after all, this year was really about letting go and this proved to me the magic that happens when I do.</div>
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Day 3: Assemble the houses!</div>
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At the start of this class we had a really great time looking at a LOT of different birdhouses. I tried to find the greatest variety of colors, sizes, shapes, designs, and themes and after looking at the images we made a list of what a bird house <b>had to have</b>.<br />
Here is what they came up with:<br />
1. Hole for the birds to get in<br />
2. Roof<br />
3. Main house<br />
4. Walls<br />
We also came to the really excited conclusion that they could look like ANYTHING!<br />
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After this amazing discussion took place I talked about creating our bird houses using shapes and all the shapes they know and can use. Then they watched my demo video of constructing my house. The big take away of the demo video was drawing on the white side of the paper. I did provide circle tracers but all the rest of the shapes were drawn free hand.</div>
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Day 4: Put a bird on it!<br />
On this last day we started with a brief shape assessment, I handed back houses and gave them the assessment you see below and they counted up their shapes, wrote them down, and handed it back to me with their name on it.<br />
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After we got that out of the way it became the best day ever! They got their birds back, still on the white paper, and they watched my demo of decorating my house and adding my birds. I highly encouraged them to use all the lines we focused on a bunch throughout the year as well as patterns and themes. All the decorating was done with oil pastels and black sharpies. I did put the paper back out this day for them to add more shapes if they needed/wanted to add more.<br />
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My favorite part was them attaching their birds. Most kiddos painted two birds so I gave them the option of using both or just one. They attached them using one of the coolest art supplies ever--3D-Os. Sold here by <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/scratch-art-3d-os/" target="_blank">Dick Blick</a> or <a href="https://store.schoolspecialty.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?minisite=10206&item=506451" target="_blank">School Specialty</a>. They are a foam circle with adhesive on both sides, they give a subtle 3D effect by hovering about a 1/4 inch off the paper.<br />
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In the bottom left birdhouse above the student accidentally cut off the bird's legs and this was his problem solving solution! YES!</div>
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Bottom right and top above, Lots of "love birds" appeared in first grade...</div>
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All of my grade levels were able to do this, including Kindergarten with just a little extra step by step how-to for them.<br />
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I'm sure you have seen other versions of these "Roll-A-whatever" drawing activities, I created a blank "Roll-A" template on the computer so I can type titles and categories and then hand draw the rolls. Then I scan the finished one back into the computer and upload/print away! (My monster version was inspired by one created by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Monster-Roll-and-Draw-Sheets-357478" target="_blank">Expressive Monkey</a>)<br />
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FYI, one of my kindergarteners did the black and white drawing on top.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-48549909448771722652016-06-30T12:49:00.000-05:002016-06-30T12:49:38.521-05:00Japanese Koi Fish with 3rd Grade<h2>
200th post! Woohoo!</h2>
Inspiration for this project came from <a href="http://artprojectsforkids.org/portfolio/koi-fish/" target="_blank">this post via pinterest</a>...<br />
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I Can statements: I Can tell you something about Japan. I Can draw and paint two or more koi fish in an environment. I Can use watercolors correctly.<br />
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As i've mentioned in other 3rd grade "travels" my goal is to give my students the biggest picture of a culture or country as I can in a one project time frame. I would love to spend months on one culture/part of the world but with our curriculum as is--this is the best way that I have found to frame the lesson. To help my students track their new found knowledge, each time we "travel" to a new place I have them fill out a passport page. You can read more about this process <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/01/3rd-grade-passports-2015.html">from this post</a>.<br />
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Day 1: Intro to Japan, <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/01/3rd-grade-passports-2015.html">passport</a>, and practice.<br />
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We started by looking at the Japanese flag, looking at Japan on a map, and then 5 facts about Japan!<br />
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1. Japan consists of over 3,000 islands<br />
2. There are more pets than children in Japan (this BY FAR was their favorite fact)<br />
3. Around 24 billion pairs of chopsticks are used in Japan each year<br />
4. Mt. Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, is also an active volcano<br />
5. Koi fish are symbols in Japanese culture for good fortune, success, courage, and perseverance. They appear often in Japanese art.<br />
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Students shared experiences where they have seen koi fish before and what they looked like and made them feel.<br />
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Then the <a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2016/01/3rd-grade-passports-2015.html">first part of their passports</a> were filled out and it was time to start working. I provided them with the handout I created below and they practiced 4 times (or more) drawing the fish.<br />
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I put a really big emphasis on this sketching process because their final painting was going to be on watercolor paper and they were only going to get one piece (front and back) so they really needed to be prepared and practiced in drawing koi fish. When they had it down I gave them their piece of watercolor paper (only a few students got to this on the first day).</div>
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Day 3: Painting and salt demo, painting work day!<br />
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We kicked off with a demo of painting using watercolors and how to apply salt for the best results in creating one of my favorite watercolor effects. Once students started using the salt I swear it was all over my room for the next month. I put up the image below for students to look at while deciding on colors for their fish. They were also allowed/encouraged to make up their own breed of koi fish ;)<br />
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First up, these super fun abstract paintings I did with my 4th graders...<br />
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I Can talk about <b>abstract art</b>. I Can create an <b>abstract</b> artwork using my name. I can make shades and tints to paint <b>monochromatically</b>.<br />
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Day 1: Started this lesson in a really fun way with my students, I had them partner up and find a spot in the room and I put up an abstract painting or sculpture on the SMARTboard. I had given them a list of a variety things to talk/think about with their partner during this activity... "How does this make you feel?" "Do you see anything in this artwork or does it remind you of anything?" "Do you think this is art?"...and other questions that would spark the conversation. After a minute or two they changed partners and I switched the artwork. This went on for 15 minutes or so and then we came back together to talk about what we heard others say and what we thought. Eventually getting to the conclusion that we were looking at abstract art. I was also a participant in this activity with my partnering up with my students.<br />
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Because the 4th grade curriculum is centered on the 4th graders themselves, I wanted to find a way to connect back to that...ergo to set up their paintings they started by writing their names (and I don't just mean writing their names on the back to identify their work). They could write their first, middle, last or any combination of their name and they had to write it in a way that created a variety of interesting shapes and spaces that could be filled in with paint. I encouraged capital letters and stretching and rotating them to create the most interesting composition and then repeating the name over and over. Check out my demo video below (sorry no sound, I narrate live to my students).<br />
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Day 2: We reviewed abstract art and then started our discussion on value and monochromatic colors. My favorite part was showing them monochromatic photography and paintings. We got busy practicing by painting a strip of paper from light to dark of their chosen color. Once I saw the strip they were free to get busy on their final artwork. I encouraged them to mix in the best way for them (I love to do my mixing right on my paper) and made sure they knew they would be in charge of cleaning their paint pallette (which we almost never use because i'm a big fan of the disposable route).<br />
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Day 3 & 4: A lot more paint and painting.<br />
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Day 5: When a good chunk of students were done painting we did my favorite part. CUTTING!!!!!! There wasn't really any guidelines for this part of the project other than changing the edge and using every little piece of their painting, no tossing scraps! The size of the pieces that they cut was up to them. For this project, I introduced them to glue sponges which really kept these looking incredible and not full of loads and loads of glue. My helpful hint was really really really holding the pieces down after gluing. I even encouraged sitting on their artwork just to make sure they were nice and flat ;) I had them keep the monochromatic theme for their background paper but I think complementary colors for their background would be a great extra pop to these next time around.<br />
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Mixing paint always keeps students engaged and I chalked this one up to a really successful project especially during our critique where they could barely sit still and keep from coming up and pointing out all the things they "saw" in each other's paintings. One more bonus--if they get behind they can skip the cutting up part!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-6993127150620998952016-05-30T12:38:00.001-05:002016-05-30T12:38:23.966-05:00End of the Year Paper SculpturesThe last few weeks of the school year are in full swing. All 400ish portfolios are handed back which means one day-no grade-"Take it with you please!"-projects are happening all over the place.<br />
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THIS is my favorite. Any class that was caught up and had a day or so left with me are making these wicked awesome paper sculptures. HUGE thanks to the ever brilliant <a href="http://www.shinebritezamorano.com/?m=1" target="_blank">shine brite zamorano </a>for the inspiration via <a href="http://www.shinebritezamorano.com/2014/02/looping-and-pinching.html?m=1" target="_blank">this post </a>from pinterest.<br />
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These were done with a variety of K-4 classes and were <b><i><u>incredibly</u></i></b> open ended. I made the video below (Sorry I don't do sound!) to show them some of the basics and just "required" them to do two pieces of paper as the base. The two paper rule was to give it a little weight so they wouldn't lift when they started gluing. Everything else they did was up to them. Most students went abstract but I had a few do playgrounds, roller coasters, houses, and masks.<br />
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The only two negatives were the prep of cutting all the paper and having K & 1-ers wanting to do the cylinder and having difficulty gluing it down with enough glue to keep it on. There was a lot of end of the world tears when that happened.<br />
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My FAVORITE thing that happened was no one asking to do free art in my 3 & 4 classes because they were so completely engaged (which says a lot for the last 3 weeks of school).<br />
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HIGHLY recommend this as an end of the year project, if you have any paper left that is!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-5404870666740045742016-05-05T07:00:00.000-05:002016-05-05T07:00:12.254-05:00If the Dinosaurs Came Back (2015)This is another repeat project that I did with students in my last school. You can check out the original lesson <span id="goog_1330499863"></span><span id="goog_1330499864"></span><a href="http://theartsyfartsyartroom.blogspot.com/2015/04/if-dinosaurs-came-back-with-kindergarten.html" target="_blank">here</a>. It's such a fun way to teach finding shapes to draw with K & 1 because DINOSAURS!<br />
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Day 1: Read a book that is probably in my top 10 list of Best Books for an Elementary Art Room... <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Came-Back-Bernard-Most/dp/0152380213" target="_blank">"If the Dinosaurs Came Back" by Bernard Most</a>. The way he uses colors only on the dinosaurs is my favorite part and a great conversation piece to talk about with students.<br />
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After we read the story, I had a few pictures of dinosaurs on my SMART Board and had students come up and draw the shapes they saw over the top of the dinosaurs. I 100% believe this was a part of the process that made my students successful on this project. After this practice, I gave each a fabulous resource that came right from this book! A photocopy of the last page which is a picture glossary of the dinosaurs in the book. Looking at that (and practicing on it if needed) they drew their dinosaur using shapes on a 6X9 piece of paper and selected a color tempera paint to fill it in with.<br />
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Day 2: Read another one of Most's dinosaur books called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Were-Dinosaurs-Bernard-Most/dp/0152008527" target="_blank">"How Big Were the Dinosaurs?"</a>. This one is quite a bit longer but really engaging the way he compares sizes.<br />
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After reading the book, I showed them my demo of drawing the city and we talked about all the types of details they could add to make them REALLY look like a city and then they got busy drawing. They drew directly with sharpie. When their city was done they added more details to, and cut out, their dinosaur and glued it to their city.<br />
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These would have been perfect to have students record some type of audio with and add a QR code when displayed. NEXT TIME!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714472284269293667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2757151014624754377.post-64499946093518361362016-05-03T07:00:00.000-05:002016-05-03T07:00:06.977-05:00Cat in the Hats! (2015)At the beginning of March kinders and 1st grade celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with a little Cat in the Hat draw along and painting. Inspiration and some of the drawing steps came from <a href="http://foreverin1st.blogspot.com/2013/02/cat-in-hat-steps-1-2-3.html" target="_blank">this post</a> via Pinterest. <div>
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I really pushed that they could look silly and NOT perfect because Dr. Seuss would probably love that! It is a little challenging and some kiddos got frustrated easily and started over once or twice.<br />
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They used black crayons to draw and red watercolor.<br />
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While they painted and colored other Dr Seuss like things I played them these awesome read alouds of classic Dr. Seuss books... </div>
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