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I mean SERIOUSLY?! DO YOU SEE THIS!? Beautiful moments like this remind me why I love my job. This turned out better than I can could have ever hoped or dreamed. A little idea I ran past my principal that she jumped on board for so quickly that she added it to the staff newsletter as we spoke...turned into this beautiful, amazing, powerful collaborative display to celebrate such an important thing! The blobs were hand cut by me in about three days (over 400!) and the discussion and writing took place with classroom teachers. Here is the letter that went with the blobs to each teacher.... _________________________________________________________________________________ MARCH IS YOUTH ART MONTH! Youth Art Month Overview What is Youth Art Month? (From the National Art Education Association) The Council for Art Education (CFAE) administers Youth Art Month at the national level. Festivities take place annually, traditionally each March, to celebrate visual arts for grades K – 12. The Youth Art Month Program emphasizes the value of art education for all children, encourages support for quality school art programs, and promotes art material safety. Youth Art Month also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through visual arts experiences that are not possible in other curriculum subjects. What can we do at McDill? Please talk with your class about why Art matters to them and why it matters to the world. Then, on a paint blob, have them write why they personally believe it matters. It can be anywhere one word to one paragraph! Here are some conversation topics to get the ball rolling…. Asking “What is and isn’t Art?” Asking “Is everyone an Artist?” Asking “Why is Art important”? Asking “What does Art do for people? What is the purpose of Art?” Asking “Why Art is important to you?” Making connections that everything they wear, and everything they use on a daily basis, even for transportation was designed by someone. Taking it a step further by asking “Does that make everything Art?” I’ll also email out a link to a video if you just want to play that and create a discussion from that (the video is best for 4th-6th) http://youtu.be/vq_3vThBruA Why in the classroom? I am asking to do this in the classroom to make it more meaningful to students. When they are in Art, I hope they are going to think about Art and in the context of Art but when it is talked about in the classroom it puts a more “outsider” perspective on the question. I know these are going to totally make me cry when I read them. And yes, I will read EVERY blob. What is going to happen to the paint blobs!? Outside the art room the bulletin board will have a large display with #ArtMatters and “Art matters because….”. The blobs will be filling the board and potentially wrapping along the walls. Jeanne will also present some of the blobs at the school board meeting to board members when she talks about Youth Art Month. Please return the blobs by Friday (6th) morning. I know how busy you all are so if that doesn’t work for you... by next Wednesday (11th) morning I can still make it work. Please try your best to do this...I would love to have each student included! THANK YOU! You are an amazing staff and I am so lucky to work with people that support ALL of the Arts! -Kelsey _________________________________________________________________________________ It is still being added to too! I put extra blobs and this note by the visitor sign-in in the office :) If any of my McDill staff is reading this you are beautiful amazing humans for doing this with me and our students! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
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After such a long project to complete these beauties I wanted my 4th graders to have a really fun, stress free, extension for those that were done on our last workday of this project... enter Roll-A-Picasso! I did this last year after my 4th and 5th graders finished up this project. And it was a huge hit, entertained for the entire 45mins! I made these sheets up ahead of time after finding a not so great version online awhile back and borrowed some dice from a classroom teacher.... Just a few minutes to explain and do examples and then they were hard at work creating these slightly creepy but awesome drawings. They had the option to just draw faces or draw and add on to the faces, and then color if they wanted too...they always get to take extensions home day of so I snapped a ton of pictures! Try not to pee your pants laughing :)
Free Printable Multiplication Cootie Catcher Set
Final product wise, this might just have been my FAVORITE project this past school year. I am so unbelievably proud of the work these 5th graders did on these! I found this project here via Pinterest. Thanks a faithful attempt! I Can Statements: I Can talk about stylized art I Can use the Library resource A-Z Animals Encyclopedia to research a food chain that includes 3 or more animals I Can show a food chain mouth-in-mouth using stylized images of plants and animals Day 1: Students came in with this image on the screen... I asked them to figure out what they all had in common, eventually they ended up describing stylized without even knowing it (I love when that happens!) and I revealed the vocabulary of stylized. To better explain I showed them this awesome graphic I put together in lucidpress.... After a bit more discussion we had a "quiz" where I put up an image and they had to guess stylized or realistic. They did perfect. Then I showed them our inspiration image... They just wrapped up a science unit about ecosystems and food chains so it was the perfect project to connect to the classroom. After explaining the I Cans and the how to do the research and navigate the site they were using for research, they grabbed laptops and got to work filling out the packet below. There was quite a bit of sketching involved but it really seemed to help them understand how to break down their animals and plants. Day 2: After I approved their sketches they got to work! They had an option to draw and color with colored pencil or to collage with paper. We took about 4 class periods total on this, 1 for intro and research, and the rest were workdays. Next time I will probably have them writing something to go along with them when they are displayed. I just can't contain how happy these make me!
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Final product wise, this might just have been my FAVORITE project this past school year. I am so unbelievably proud of the work these 5th gr...
Free Printable Multiplication Cootie Catcher Set
Final product wise, this might just have been my FAVORITE project this past school year. I am so unbelievably proud of the work these 5th graders did on these! I found this project here via Pinterest. Thanks a faithful attempt! I Can Statements: I Can talk about stylized art I Can use the Library resource A-Z Animals Encyclopedia to research a food chain that includes 3 or more animals I Can show a food chain mouth-in-mouth using stylized images of plants and animals Day 1: Students came in with this image on the screen... I asked them to figure out what they all had in common, eventually they ended up describing stylized without even knowing it (I love when that happens!) and I revealed the vocabulary of stylized. To better explain I showed them this awesome graphic I put together in lucidpress.... After a bit more discussion we had a "quiz" where I put up an image and they had to guess stylized or realistic. They did perfect. Then I showed them our inspiration image... They just wrapped up a science unit about ecosystems and food chains so it was the perfect project to connect to the classroom. After explaining the I Cans and the how to do the research and navigate the site they were using for research, they grabbed laptops and got to work filling out the packet below. There was quite a bit of sketching involved but it really seemed to help them understand how to break down their animals and plants. Day 2: After I approved their sketches they got to work! They had an option to draw and color with colored pencil or to collage with paper. We took about 4 class periods total on this, 1 for intro and research, and the rest were workdays. Next time I will probably have them writing something to go along with them when they are displayed. I just can't contain how happy these make me!
One of the perks of teaching a lesson the first time is that you can use student suggestions and input to make it way better than you inten...
Hi everyone, this is Lindsay from Lindsay's Kodaly-inspired classroom. My students absolutely LOVE being read to and I love to incorporate children's literature into my music classes whenever possible. Most of the times the books I use are ones that I can sing to the kids. It gives students the opportunity to just sit and listen to a musical performance. John Feierabend calls these "song tales". He believes that just as kids love to be read to, they love to be sung to and really enjoy when the songs tell a story. He encourages you to use song tales with out books so that the children can create their own images in their mind to go with the story, but he does also have several beautifully illustrated song tale books. These are some of my favorite illustrated song tales from his collection: The Crabfish- I love to use this when I am preparing High and Low and Timbre. I use a low voice for the man, a different low voice for the fisherman and a high voice for the wife. The kids really enjoy this book. This is such a fun one to sing expressively! My Aunt Came Back- I love moving with my kids to this song. It is a great cumulative song and it's so funny to see the kids try to add all the actions. It takes a little practice, but eventually they get really good at it and they love singing "A NUT LIKE YOU" at the end and pointing to me! Once they know it pretty well, I pull out the book, and we enjoy the illustrations. They find it amusing that the "aunt" is an "ant". A Book to Practice Steady Beat I Ain't Gonna Paint No More- The kids love this silly story. It is not one I sing, but it is great for practicing steady beat and chanting through the book. Another day after we have finished reading the book, I pass out paint brushes and heart beat charts and we "paint" each heart by tapping it while I read the story again. You can find cheap paint brushes like these just about anywhere! I think I got a package of 30 or so from Target for $1. This is package of 150 from Oriental Trading. Split the cost with some teachers in your district or with the art teacher! Once every student has their paint brush, they can tap along on a beat chart like this: (From my Valentine's Beat Charts) (From my Beat Charts for the Kodaly Classroom) Low Sol Depending on which version of the song you use, Froggie Went a Courtin' is a fun book to add to your low sol concept plan. It's also a fun one to bring out around Valentine's for any grade. How gorgeous are these illustrations? Your kids will love them! If you sing this version, you can isolate the "Uh Hmmm" part with the sol, do (Visuals from my Songs and Activities for Valentine's Day) Want to find even MORE ideas for incorporating children's literature into your Kodaly Inspired classroom? Check out one of my old blog posts on Children's Books for Vocal Exploration over at the Pursuit of Joyfulness. How do you use children's literature in your Kodaly Classroom?
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3rd Grade's Elementary Art curriculum of world cultures allowed me to "travel" with them to Australia to learn about the country and create some Australian Aboriginal Dot Art! This project came from the ever brilliant Mrs. Nguyen over at her blog. I Can statements: I Can tell you something about Australia. I Can create an artwork in the style of Aboriginal Dot Art. 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 came up with framing my lesson in a way that gives them small background knowledge and then connecting one of those background pieces to artmaking. 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 from this post. Day 1: Intro to Australia, passport, animal practice, and set up. We started by looking at the Australian flag, looking at Australia on a map, and then 5 facts about Australia! 1. Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for 27 years 2. There are more kangaroos than people in Australia 3. There is a lake in Australia called Lake Hillier that is known for its pink color 4. The top 10 deadliest snakes can be found in Australia 5. Australian Aboriginals make artwork using dots to tell stories about their tribes and land. Obviously the fact we dived into the most was about the Aboriginals. I was trying to get them to use textual clues to figure what Aboriginals meant and we finally got it! However, their favorite fact was probably the pink lake! We watched part of this documentary from 37:02 to 40:23 as an introduction to the Aboriginal culture and their dot art. Then the first part of their passports were filled out and it was time to start working. I provided them with the handout below and then they practiced different animals they wanted to create. When they had one down comfortably they drew it on a 6x9 piece of bright construction paper, cut it out, and glued it to a 9x12 piece of black construction paper. Day 2: Starting the Dots! Kicked off the day with another short video... After the demo they got to work making dots like machines! Some students had to finish drawing and cutting their animals before creating dots. Each table had a pallette with a full set of colors and enough scratch art sticks for each color. They used the back flat end of the sticks to create the dots. We talked about using just the right amount of paint and how many dots were just enough before dipping again and what the best way to go about laying down dots was. The first workday everyone was really focused and into it.... Day 3 & 4: Workdays! Started off each day with a little review about what we remembered from Australia and then they got to work. As time went on they started to lose motivation and focus but not finishing was not an option. I did allow friends to help (if they wanted help) once we got down to the last few minutes on the last workday. When they were finally done the last job was finishing their passport and turning in their project. I am so proud of their perseverance and quality that came out of this and REALLY glad I didn't go bigger than 9x12. I am thinking next time that early finishers could do a really big group one! Looking for feedback on two things.... Do you think it was okay that I "made" them finish and not quit? Do you think it was okay that I allowed friends to help (if they wanted) at the end?
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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! This project has been floating all over the internet and I was finally inspired to do it myself after this post and this post from Cassie Stephens! Love LOVE LOOOOOVVVVEEE the way it turned out! This was the perfect way to kick off the year and get almost all 400ish students busy making art on the first day. I Can draw a self-portrait and color it using one color to make a collaborative artwork. Day 1: 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. 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. Kindergarten spent Day 1 hearing the book Art Today! (HIGHLY recommend for the first day for Kinders), going on a tour of the art room, and drawing me anything they wanted so I could get a skills intake. The book is a bit hard to find but Crystal Productions does sell it. Day 2: Each table got a box of art supplies in their color only. 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. 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. After seeing Cassie's final product, 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! Cassie's finished Product
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One of the perks of teaching a lesson the first time is that you can use student suggestions and input to make it way better than you inten...
Free Printable Emoji Mystery Multiplication Worksheets
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A seriously silly and fun activity my students did at the end of the year-- I am also going to add it to my drawing activity binder for this...
3rd Grade's Elementary Art curriculum of world cultures allowed me to "travel" with them to Australia to learn about the country and create some Australian Aboriginal Dot Art! This project came from the ever brilliant Mrs. Nguyen over at her blog. I Can statements: I Can tell you something about Australia. I Can create an artwork in the style of Aboriginal Dot Art. 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 came up with framing my lesson in a way that gives them small background knowledge and then connecting one of those background pieces to artmaking. 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 from this post. Day 1: Intro to Australia, passport, animal practice, and set up. We started by looking at the Australian flag, looking at Australia on a map, and then 5 facts about Australia! 1. Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for 27 years 2. There are more kangaroos than people in Australia 3. There is a lake in Australia called Lake Hillier that is known for its pink color 4. The top 10 deadliest snakes can be found in Australia 5. Australian Aboriginals make artwork using dots to tell stories about their tribes and land. Obviously the fact we dived into the most was about the Aboriginals. I was trying to get them to use textual clues to figure what Aboriginals meant and we finally got it! However, their favorite fact was probably the pink lake! We watched part of this documentary from 37:02 to 40:23 as an introduction to the Aboriginal culture and their dot art. Then the first part of their passports were filled out and it was time to start working. I provided them with the handout below and then they practiced different animals they wanted to create. When they had one down comfortably they drew it on a 6x9 piece of bright construction paper, cut it out, and glued it to a 9x12 piece of black construction paper. Day 2: Starting the Dots! Kicked off the day with another short video... After the demo they got to work making dots like machines! Some students had to finish drawing and cutting their animals before creating dots. Each table had a pallette with a full set of colors and enough scratch art sticks for each color. They used the back flat end of the sticks to create the dots. We talked about using just the right amount of paint and how many dots were just enough before dipping again and what the best way to go about laying down dots was. The first workday everyone was really focused and into it.... Day 3 & 4: Workdays! Started off each day with a little review about what we remembered from Australia and then they got to work. As time went on they started to lose motivation and focus but not finishing was not an option. I did allow friends to help (if they wanted help) once we got down to the last few minutes on the last workday. When they were finally done the last job was finishing their passport and turning in their project. I am so proud of their perseverance and quality that came out of this and REALLY glad I didn't go bigger than 9x12. I am thinking next time that early finishers could do a really big group one! Looking for feedback on two things.... Do you think it was okay that I "made" them finish and not quit? Do you think it was okay that I allowed friends to help (if they wanted) at the end?
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Second graders loved Robert Wyland so much that we did two projects inspired by him. Out first was Warm and Cool Waves, the second were these AWESOME underwater self-portraits inspired by this, this AND this project via pinterest. I Can statements: I Can draw a self-portrait with my features in the correct places. I Can draw a sea creature realistically. Day 1: To kick off the project we looked at portrait photographs that were taken underwater and discussed what looked the same and different as above water. I showed them this video of Wyland painting underwater to connect back to Wyland. How freaky and awesome would it be to paint underwater!? After all this chatting we got to work drawing the self-portraits. I did a draw along with them up on the SMART Board to help guide where to put features and how to draw the snorkel and mask. Day 2: I checked out a large variety of sea animal books from the library and had them look through the books and choose a sea creature they wanted to draw. Before they added it to their portrait they had to practice drawing it using the books and attempt to make it look more realistic. I really pushed drawing from the images and not from their minds. This was a little difficult of a concept for them, but by the last group of 2nd graders, I finally found the right way to describe what I meant. When their practice was done I gave them their portrait to add the creature to. Nearing the end of class we came back together to talk about what good coloring looks like with crayons and how to achieve it so those that were ready to color could start. Day 3: Refreshed our coloring discussion and then they got busy coloring. When the first few were done coloring, I showed my demo of using liquid blue watercolor to do a wash over the entire page. I really made a point to explain that any paper that was showing was going to turn blue so "bad coloring" would be really visible. Make sure they color the white of their eyes or their will possibly be tears when they turn blue.... These just make me so incredibly happy to look at!
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Second graders loved Robert Wyland so much that we did two projects inspired by him. Out first was Warm and Cool Waves , the second were the...
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I LOVE when I find amazing resources online to show my students about contemporary artists....and the internet is full of Romero Britto ones that were perfect for this project! I knew I wanted to do a contemporary artist project with my 3rd graders and to work on my PPG (for those of you not in Educator Effectiveness land it's my Professional Practice Goal). My PPG is collaborating with classroom teachers, so I talked with the 3rd grade team and I found out they were doing USA Government. After a little pinteresting I stumbled upon this Pin of Britto's "Freedom" artwork in his shop on his website....and I had a project! Britto's Freedom I Can Statement: I can draw and color a Statue of Liberty inspired by Romero Britto. Day 1: Britto introduction...a little background information and then some GREAT youtube videos that all were embedded and flowed with my google presentation.... This first one is a clip from the Super Bowl halftime show featuring his work... Then the Piece De Resistance! An animated version of his artwork done by LG... Lastly a great little clip talking about his specific artwork we were looking at... When all was said and done they made awesome connections to their daily lives, learned more about Pop Art, and explored many Britto works of Art and we didn't even start creating yet! With the time left they practiced coloring different "Britto patterns/designs" on coloring sheets that I had broken up into different sections. Day 2: Quick review of Britto and then another AWESOME animation by LG of Britto's work. Finally time for Lady Liberty! Together we did a draw along however, I took pictures while I was drawing my example in the different steps and had this for students to look at in their spots if they wanted to do it independently. I also had it projected on the screen while I did a draw along on the board.... After we finished the draw along they started coloring, about 50/50 were done on this day so on the next work day that fell near Dr Suess, they created these Britto inspired Seuss hats! And I couldn't help but show them one more great video... If I did this again I would probably have them work on a larger scale or with materials other than marker but I am pretty happy with the way it went..
This is officially my favorite project to do at the end of the year with 6th grade. They turn out amazing, and they all end up with a piece that they really enjoyed making and can be proud of. For more info on the breakdown check out my original post on the project. The only changes were no planning sheet, incorporating their name, and adding sharpies to the material possibilities....
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Final product wise, this might just have been my FAVORITE project this past school year. I am so unbelievably proud of the work these 5th graders did on these! I found this project here via Pinterest. Thanks a faithful attempt! I Can Statements: I Can talk about stylized art I Can use the Library resource A-Z Animals Encyclopedia to research a food chain that includes 3 or more animals I Can show a food chain mouth-in-mouth using stylized images of plants and animals Day 1: Students came in with this image on the screen... I asked them to figure out what they all had in common, eventually they ended up describing stylized without even knowing it (I love when that happens!) and I revealed the vocabulary of stylized. To better explain I showed them this awesome graphic I put together in lucidpress.... After a bit more discussion we had a "quiz" where I put up an image and they had to guess stylized or realistic. They did perfect. Then I showed them our inspiration image... They just wrapped up a science unit about ecosystems and food chains so it was the perfect project to connect to the classroom. After explaining the I Cans and the how to do the research and navigate the site they were using for research, they grabbed laptops and got to work filling out the packet below. There was quite a bit of sketching involved but it really seemed to help them understand how to break down their animals and plants. Day 2: After I approved their sketches they got to work! They had an option to draw and color with colored pencil or to collage with paper. We took about 4 class periods total on this, 1 for intro and research, and the rest were workdays. Next time I will probably have them writing something to go along with them when they are displayed. I just can't contain how happy these make me!
One of the perks of teaching a lesson the first time is that you can use student suggestions and input to make it way better than you inten...
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