After a fun filled summer, I'm back in action at Five Oaks! We are still on an every-other-day schedule, but I'm hoping this year will be slightly better since I got a feel for pacing and timing last year. I'm excited to try some new projects this year. We're about a week in and students are working on their nametags. Up next will be sketchbooks. I'm sticking to what I did last year, last semester. Sixth graders will still have 3-prong folders--which makes it easier to re-fill since they always tend to run out of sketchbook paper. Seventh graders are making sketchbooks out of paperbags--a project I borrowed from my fellow art teacher, Tricia. And again 8th graders will have real sketchbooks--collaging the covers. 7th grade sketchbook example I create inserts for 6th and 7th grade--including warm up pages. I adjusted those the warm ups page. I also have a list of drawing ideas I include. These, along, with blank paper will be their "sketchbooks"!
Welcome to Artful Artsy Amy! Artful Artsy Amy was started in 2009 as part of an assignment for my M.A.T. in Art Education. Eventually, Artful Artsy Amy became a place to share art education experie…
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This academic year 2013/14, we were working at school on a project on "the water in Raxó". We made a watermill with bricks (there are some pictures in the blog) and we learnt a song for Carnival Day. It´s an American song from YouTube, but we made some changes. It´s repetitive (so every child, even the youngest ones, could learn it by heart) and very, very long! The song was accompanied by mime, and the hard point was to get all of the students ( almost 80!) singing and miming at the same time. But I think we got it! Here you are the link to the video, and below you can read or even sing the song, following the lyrics we made. Enjoy it! "A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA" (LYRICS) There´s a hole in the bottom of the sea. (BIS) There´s a hole, there´s a hole. There´s a hole in the bottom of the sea. There´s A SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. Comes THE SHARK , in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. C H O R U S There´s AN EEL and A SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. Comes THE EEL and THE SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. C H O R U S There´s A SQUID and AN EEL and A SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. Comes THE SQUID and THE EEL and THE SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. C H O R U S There´s A CRAB and A SQUID and AN EEL and A SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. Comes THE CRAB and THE SQUID and THE EEL and THE SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. C H O R U S * L E T´S G O A N D S E E !!! There´s A SNAIL and A CRAB and A SQUID and AN EEL and A SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. Comes THE SNAIL and THE CRAB and THE SQUID and THE EEL and THE SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. C H O R U S There´s A WEED and A SNAIL and A CRAB and A SQUID and AN EEL and A SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. Comes THE WEED and THE SNAIL and THE CRAB and THE SQUID and THE EEL and THE SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. C H O R U S (BIS) THE SUN feeds THE WEED, (clap) feeds THE SNAIL, (clap) feeds THE CRAB, (clap) feeds THE SQUID, (clap) feeds THE EEL, (clap) feeds THE SHARK in the hole, in the bottom of the sea. (B I S) C H O R U S (TRIS) * S O… L O O K O U T !!! IF YOU GO TO THE HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!! * L O O K O U T !!! ESPEDREGADA!! LET´S DIVE IN !!
After a fun filled summer, I'm back in action at Five Oaks! We are still on an every-other-day schedule, but I'm hoping this year will be slightly better since I got a feel for pacing and timing last year. I'm excited to try some new projects this year. We're about a week in and students are working on their nametags. Up next will be sketchbooks. I'm sticking to what I did last year, last semester. Sixth graders will still have 3-prong folders--which makes it easier to re-fill since they always tend to run out of sketchbook paper. Seventh graders are making sketchbooks out of paperbags--a project I borrowed from my fellow art teacher, Tricia. And again 8th graders will have real sketchbooks--collaging the covers. 7th grade sketchbook example I create inserts for 6th and 7th grade--including warm up pages. I adjusted those the warm ups page. I also have a list of drawing ideas I include. These, along, with blank paper will be their "sketchbooks"!
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These three St. Patrick's Day-themed worksheets were made for blizzard bag assignments during one of our MANY snow days in the 2013-14 school year. Students are asked to identify notes with two sounds and the last worksheet asks students to identify sixteenth notes. This resource now has a digital layer so you can use this as a digital assignment in Google Classroom. Watch one or both of my videos about how you can add a digital layer to selected PDF resources and how to use the digital tool in Google Classroom. Other St. Patrick's Day themed products: St. Patrick's Day Celebration - Irish Music (World Music) Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for So-Mi Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for So-Mi-La Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for Do-Re-Mi Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for Ta/Ti-Ti Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for Quarter Rest Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for Half Note Lenny the Leprechaun (Help Find Me Gold) Interactive Game for Sixteenth Notes St. Patrick's Day Worksheets St. Patrick's Day Color by Number (Music) St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt (Treble Clef) St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt (So-Mi) St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt (So-Mi-La) St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt (Do-Re-Mi) St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt (Pentatonic) Rhythm Readers (St. Patrick's Day) Lenny the Leprechaun Rhythm Find FREEBIE
2013-14 has been the school year of new projects for me. One of my goals this year was to do at least one new lesson with each grade l...
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Last summer, I did a guest post over at Simply Speech on how I implement themes in my therapy planning for the entire year...well it's that time again! I worked on it yesterday and it is ready to go! I can't even begin to explain how much anxiety this takes out of planning for me. It really, really, really makes life so much easier! I use this to plan all the activities I do for the year. The week before, I pull all my materials/books/Pinterest ideas together for that theme and know exactly what I will be using with my groups. When I have something to center therapy around, it makes those material choices so much easier. If you want to know more about how themes are beneficial, read this guest post by Twin Sister Speech & Language Therapy on my blog...it's awesome! Some of it will look the same as last year and some will look a little different. I threw in a some new themes that I didn't do last year (Yay for dinosaur week!) and also left many themes running for two weeks. I did this because last year, there were tons of weeks that I wanted to keep going with certain themes. And I probably will find that it will happen with certain ones again this year. But this is my framework for this year and I am SO excited it is done :) If you want to use my calendar, you can grab it HERE. I also have a blank one if you want to make your own, check it out HERE! I also created an August to June calendar for those of you who have requested it, get it HERE. Do you use theme therapy? What are some of your favorites? ***UPDATE!!!*** I have made a blank EDITABLE version!!! You can grab the September-May version HERE and the August-June version HERE :)
Folktales, Fables, Fairytales, and Tall Tales come up at some point throughout the year with all grade levels from Kinder to 5th grade. Over the years, I’ve found some absolutely WONDERFUL anchor charts that helped me create a visual reminder for my students. Here are some of my favorites! These... Read more
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This 2013-14 is going to be my 10th year teaching art to middle schoolers! I have struggled to find ways every year to keep kids productive during free time. I liked giving them the option of doing art during this time to get extra booster grades. But I still wanted to reward them at the same time if they were on task and finished early. The problem rooted where students would turn in poor work just to have free time, then in the process would get low grades in art (by fault of their own choices) and I would run into more discipline problems as well. I struggled with trying to teach them that what they choose to do in their free time would lead to different results, hoping they would choose wisely. Unfortunately, I have realized that most middle school students are not really ready to make these choices wisely. Since I do not want to see failure or idleness in my class any longer! I have decided to require them to journal in their free time to hopefully change the pattern. From now on, I am requiring each art student to carry a spiral notebook to use for multiple things in the class; Class notes, instruction, sketches, thoughts, inspiration, and free work. It is a way to stay organized with their artistic ideas and have a place to turn to stay productive. I decided to give them a new topic every week (total 36). Well... That was the plan... But... You know... ;) We made it to 22 topics! If they finish their work early, they will be expected to grab their journal and begin on their weekly sketch. If they do not finish early, they will be expected to do it for homework. The earlier they finish their class work, the higher my expectation I will have for journal because they had more time to work on it. I want to begin the year by taking notes on how we use supplies in the MMS art room. I will have them write as they go and encourage them to illustrate their paper as well. Writing the rules will allow them to refer back to them and enforce it to their creative memory. We use lettering ALOT in my art class. I want to start off the basics of forming letters with them at the beginning of the year. A beginners guide to lettering is a lesson I will teach for journaling. I will have the students take these notes in their journals in order to get them started on the next entry... Write your name in 10 different styles... 5 Things you are Thankful For... LInes on LInes... Each line on the notebook spiral will contain a new line design. Bucket list Students draw a 3d bucket and fill it up creatively with at least 10 things they want to do before they graduate and get too old to be cool! Larry's SprayCan 6th grade What do you want to SprAY? Use the step by step guide to drawing a spray can from www.youtube.com/drawstuffrealeasy Then draw on the can what you wish you could spray out everywhere in unlimited amounts to say to the world, make your mark! 3D PENCIL This is supposed to look like the students drew all over their page and then laid their pencil on top of the drawing. The drawing should be 2D while the pencil will appear 3D in comparison. Draw a large pencil in your journal with your pencil. Make it appear 3d by blending darker colors at bottom and casting a shadow with grey. Develop drawings below to keep the 2D look on the paper. Use M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands picture as an example of 3D on top of 2D. Caricature of You These are a funny , goofy, exaggerated, and humors versions of ourselves. Take a feature you love or hate about yourself and flare it up! Make you even more "you" than reality! Head in the Clouds Here it is ok to have a cloudy brain... Draw clouds filling up the page focusing on variety of style here. Be free, be cartoonish, be wild, be abstract, be realisitc... just draw clouds. Pictorgraphy This is writing a message using pictures as a code or puzzle... For example, "Dear Pam" could be done by drawing a deer and then drawing a Jar of Jam with the formula P+ Jar of Jam-J... This gets cryptic, so they need to include the key on back of note. Inspiritaion Pocket or Idea Pouch... I have a worksheet for them to create the pocket. It is basically just a rectangle with a tab on right, left, and bottom. They are supposed to decorate the pouch front, cut it out then fold tabs under and apply glue to them. Then lay the pocket in the book. It is a place for them to keep ideas in for their free time journaling. Fabulous Fancy Frame Sometimes we find a frame for out art that is more fancy than the art itself. Frames can be intricately detailed and fabulously fancy at times. This entry gets the students to focus on designing a frame that is art itself. Leave the center open... Eye Collage and Eye Drawing... Students find big human eyes in magazines. Variety is good (profile, closed, open, etc). They glue the eyes on the left side of the journal and draw them on the right. Monster Morph Students use the space to make mulitple monsters or to make on bigger detailed monster. They morph parts from animals together to create monsters. They can outline, color, or shade after done... Journal Entry #21 What would you eat if it was your last meal or the meal you would eat for eternity? Journal #22 Tree Doodle Journal Entry Draw a tree creatively... Teacher Example 2014 Cody R. 7th grade 2014 Ranger T. 7th grade 2014 Seth K. 7th grade There will be more to come as I work more and more during toddler naps...
Comme vous le savez peut-être déjà, mon petit Maé fêtera ses 4 ans dans deux semaines avec ces copains ! Première fête d’anniversaire sur le thème des supers héros (of course !). J’ai passé environ…
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So you have this student who seems determined to ruin your school year. He (or she) is blatantly disrespectful. He makes fun of and laughs at other students. He’s rude and silly. He’s argumentative and attention-seeking. He is well known by every staff member ... Read more
Inspiration for this beautiful lesson came from the Jamestown Elementary Art blog! Second graders began this week's lesson by learning a bit about the artist Vincent Van Gogh. First we took a look at arguably his most famous painting "Starry Night" and talked about how he painted (colors, brushstrokes, etc.)... and then moved on to his sunflower still-lifes. We talked about what a still-life was, and how an artist could arrange one -- I dramatically arranged a pile of items from my desk on a table and pretended to ecstatically paint it - the kids love the drama. ;) Then I had my students fold a sheet of drawing paper in half and on the first half had them draw their own still-life of flowers (just from memory or imagination). After about 5-10 minutes, I placed a vase of fake sunflowers in front of them and asked them to look at exactly what was in front of them and draw that. We talked about the three-dimensional shape of the vase and how all the sunflowers do not point directly towards the viewer (some you can only see from the side or behind!!). The kids drew directly from observation on the second half. It was amazing to see the difference between the two pictures! The next day the kids came in and made a sheet of painted paper. They painted one part yellow and orange and then added some texture, and painted a small part of it brown by mixing orange and black and added texture. The following day we began creating the background and flower vase with chalk pastel (ohhhh it's always so messy!). We briefly talked about blending colors (and analogous color schemes) to make items look more interesting (like the flower vase). The vase was then cut out and glued down to the background (we talked about placement before students glued their vases down - that way they wouldn't automatically put it on the edge of the table/horizon line). The next day students began tearing up their painted paper and arranging their flowers on their background papers. For some students this took a class and a half. After all the gluing was done, students used oil pastel to add in stems, leaves, and other details.
This post brought to you by Walmart. All opinions are 100% mine. This school year I am anticipating a lot of flash cards. My youngest will begin on the journey of learning to read, which means lots of sight word practice. I thought it would be a lot of fun to make a note card/ flash card holder...
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These easy portraits were a great way to wrap up the school year in 2nd grade at Brimfield. I was inspired by the article "Contour Line Portraits; Excited About Artistic Abilities" from the March issue of Arts & Activities of this year. The article is written by Kari Gertz Neal and I loved the polished look of this tracing process that is so simple I feel like I should have thought of it myself! I also found a very similar project over at Dali's Moustache that turned out awesome too. We've already done portraits and abstract paintings in 2nd grade this year, so the students were already familiar with the vocabulary and concepts for this project. They chose either warm or cool colors and created abstract paintings (with Biggie Cakes) while I took their photographs one at a time. During our next class we taped transparencies to the black and white photos that I printed for them and the students just traced all the details they could find with Sharpies. To complete them we made nametag titles and stapled the tracings to the paintings. The kids were amazed by how much their "drawings" really looked like them and I was really happy with the success the kids clearly felt with their work.
After a fun filled summer, I'm back in action at Five Oaks! We are still on an every-other-day schedule, but I'm hoping this year will be slightly better since I got a feel for pacing and timing last year. I'm excited to try some new projects this year. We're about a week in and students are working on their nametags. Up next will be sketchbooks. I'm sticking to what I did last year, last semester. Sixth graders will still have 3-prong folders--which makes it easier to re-fill since they always tend to run out of sketchbook paper. Seventh graders are making sketchbooks out of paperbags--a project I borrowed from my fellow art teacher, Tricia. And again 8th graders will have real sketchbooks--collaging the covers. 7th grade sketchbook example I create inserts for 6th and 7th grade--including warm up pages. I adjusted those the warm ups page. I also have a list of drawing ideas I include. These, along, with blank paper will be their "sketchbooks"!
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This 2013-14 is going to be my 10th year teaching art to middle schoolers! I have struggled to find ways every year to keep kids productive during free time. I liked giving them the option of doing art during this time to get extra booster grades. But I still wanted to reward them at the same time if they were on task and finished early. The problem rooted where students would turn in poor work just to have free time, then in the process would get low grades in art (by fault of their own choices) and I would run into more discipline problems as well. I struggled with trying to teach them that what they choose to do in their free time would lead to different results, hoping they would choose wisely. Unfortunately, I have realized that most middle school students are not really ready to make these choices wisely. Since I do not want to see failure or idleness in my class any longer! I have decided to require them to journal in their free time to hopefully change the pattern. From now on, I am requiring each art student to carry a spiral notebook to use for multiple things in the class; Class notes, instruction, sketches, thoughts, inspiration, and free work. It is a way to stay organized with their artistic ideas and have a place to turn to stay productive. I decided to give them a new topic every week (total 36). Well... That was the plan... But... You know... ;) We made it to 22 topics! If they finish their work early, they will be expected to grab their journal and begin on their weekly sketch. If they do not finish early, they will be expected to do it for homework. The earlier they finish their class work, the higher my expectation I will have for journal because they had more time to work on it. I want to begin the year by taking notes on how we use supplies in the MMS art room. I will have them write as they go and encourage them to illustrate their paper as well. Writing the rules will allow them to refer back to them and enforce it to their creative memory. We use lettering ALOT in my art class. I want to start off the basics of forming letters with them at the beginning of the year. A beginners guide to lettering is a lesson I will teach for journaling. I will have the students take these notes in their journals in order to get them started on the next entry... Write your name in 10 different styles... 5 Things you are Thankful For... LInes on LInes... Each line on the notebook spiral will contain a new line design. Bucket list Students draw a 3d bucket and fill it up creatively with at least 10 things they want to do before they graduate and get too old to be cool! Larry's SprayCan 6th grade What do you want to SprAY? Use the step by step guide to drawing a spray can from www.youtube.com/drawstuffrealeasy Then draw on the can what you wish you could spray out everywhere in unlimited amounts to say to the world, make your mark! 3D PENCIL This is supposed to look like the students drew all over their page and then laid their pencil on top of the drawing. The drawing should be 2D while the pencil will appear 3D in comparison. Draw a large pencil in your journal with your pencil. Make it appear 3d by blending darker colors at bottom and casting a shadow with grey. Develop drawings below to keep the 2D look on the paper. Use M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands picture as an example of 3D on top of 2D. Caricature of You These are a funny , goofy, exaggerated, and humors versions of ourselves. Take a feature you love or hate about yourself and flare it up! Make you even more "you" than reality! Head in the Clouds Here it is ok to have a cloudy brain... Draw clouds filling up the page focusing on variety of style here. Be free, be cartoonish, be wild, be abstract, be realisitc... just draw clouds. Pictorgraphy This is writing a message using pictures as a code or puzzle... For example, "Dear Pam" could be done by drawing a deer and then drawing a Jar of Jam with the formula P+ Jar of Jam-J... This gets cryptic, so they need to include the key on back of note. Inspiritaion Pocket or Idea Pouch... I have a worksheet for them to create the pocket. It is basically just a rectangle with a tab on right, left, and bottom. They are supposed to decorate the pouch front, cut it out then fold tabs under and apply glue to them. Then lay the pocket in the book. It is a place for them to keep ideas in for their free time journaling. Fabulous Fancy Frame Sometimes we find a frame for out art that is more fancy than the art itself. Frames can be intricately detailed and fabulously fancy at times. This entry gets the students to focus on designing a frame that is art itself. Leave the center open... Eye Collage and Eye Drawing... Students find big human eyes in magazines. Variety is good (profile, closed, open, etc). They glue the eyes on the left side of the journal and draw them on the right. Monster Morph Students use the space to make mulitple monsters or to make on bigger detailed monster. They morph parts from animals together to create monsters. They can outline, color, or shade after done... Journal Entry #21 What would you eat if it was your last meal or the meal you would eat for eternity? Journal #22 Tree Doodle Journal Entry Draw a tree creatively... Teacher Example 2014 Cody R. 7th grade 2014 Ranger T. 7th grade 2014 Seth K. 7th grade There will be more to come as I work more and more during toddler naps...
It is the first week of kindergarten! What do I teach? I get this question all the time! I am so excited to put together this page together for you. I’m sharing our favorite first week of kindergarten read aloud stories and the free coordinating printables I made to go with them. Plus I will s
