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Thank goodness we live in an age where we can get inspiration from teachers all over the world! Most art teachers are alone in their building, so we do not have the opportunity to collaborate with our peers as much as the other teachers do. I'm so blessed to live in an age where an art teacher clear across the country or world is accessible in mere seconds! We can all share our great ideas, and not have to leave the comfort of our pj's if we don't want to! Anyway.... As I was scrolling through Instagram, I came across this beautiful project from Art with Mrs. E. Her 4th graders did such a great job, I wanted to try it out with ours as well! We will be starting this when we come back from Christmas break! I love this technique of spreading chalk to create the look of the Northern Lights. Here's how I did it. Materials: Sargent Art chalk pastels Crayola White oil pastel Crayola Artista II white paint 9x12" Tru-Ray construction paper Sax 90 lb paper First start with black paper, and a piece of 90lb white paper. Tear that 90lb piece of paper 3 or 4 different ways horizontally. Then, use chalk pastels to add color to the top of the tear. Rub in an upward motion to spread the chalk onto the black paper. Oh, and add a thick white line in chalk for the snowy ground! Add more color than I did in this picture! I realized I didn't add enough when I starting spreading it, and not much color was coming off! Here's a new video showing how to color and spread the chalk onto your black paper For some reason the warm colors spread and colored better than the cool did. I did 4 layers, but you could do more or less, or even do them going in a different direction! Maybe vertical instead of horizontal! I'll try that next! The next class the students can add paint to their picture, by painting black evergreen trees, their reflection in the water, and stars or snow in the background. Now that I've completed mine, I'll do the stars before I do the trees next time! Whoops! Guess my trees will just have snow on them! When I instruct the students to do the stars, we will rub the bristles with our fingers to create the stars, so our paint dots are much smaller! After they paint the black trees, add the reflection of the lights with chalk to the water, in a horizontal motion. Then, add the reflection of the trees in a horizontal motion with black tempera paint. Stay tuned for some awesome art! Hope you and yours have the happiest of holidays, and a wonderful New Year! Last week we had a 1-2 hour delay, each day, so I haven't had 4th grade until today! Mrs. Fambrough's class is off to a wonderful start, and as usual, Mrs. Stacey is so very proud of them!! Dr. Fambrough's class did a great job today, too! “Lauren Stacey is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.”
From the humble garb of peasants to the elaborate styles of the nobility, this meticulously researched coloring book offers expertly rendered illustrations of medieval costumes. Both colorists and fashion devotees will adore these lovingly detailed images of lords and ladies decked in regal attire, pilgrims dressed for weeks of rough riding, crusader knights in chain mail armor, and much more.European fashions from the ninth through the fifteenth century appear in this comprehensive fashion retrospective. Forty-five ready-to-color illustrations portray people from every class of society, from farmers in plain tunics, aprons, and kirtles to courtiers in embroidered mantles and brocaded silk robes with fur-trimmed sleeves.Complete, fact-filled captions, in addition to an informative introduction, help make this volume an excellent resource for fashion historians and costume designers as well as a distinctive and entertaining coloring book. historic fashion;line drawings;fur-trimmed;colorists;brocaded;rubbings;kirtles;mantles;headdresses;tunics;garbed;aprons;pallet;coloring;fact-filled;helmets;forty-five;embroidered;captioned;faire;homeschool;regal;courtiers;crusader;robes;attire;fashions;peasants;costumes;captions;knights;colour;elaborate;colored;books on costumes
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Have you ever seen those mix-n-match books, where you have the head, mid-section, and legs of one character, but you can flip on piece of it to make an entirely new combination of characters and story? My daughter has one and it inspired me to get a little creative in my class! We have been studying similes and metaphors in class. To help the kids along, I read them "Quick as a Cricket" by Audrey Wood. It is a very simple book, in which she uses simple similes to compare the main character to various animals. After reading the book, the students created a divided circle map in which they listed all the adjectives they could think of that described themselves, then all of the animate and inanimate objects that would also be fitting for a self-description. The next step was a tree map. I had the students break their body up into 3 parts -- head, mid-section, and legs/feet. They then used their circle map to create comparisons between themselves and the objects, all relating to that portion of their body. For example, they could write "dark cave of thoughts" under head, or "fast cheetah" under legs. The idea was to get them thinking about how different parts of their body could be compared to objects that were definitely not alike. Once the Tree Maps were complete, I asked the students to choose their four favorite comparisons from each section. They needed to write as many simple similes and metaphors from those comparisons. Again, we used a divided Circle Map (can anyone tell I love using Thinking Maps???) Finally, they chose the two favorites from each category and, on a separate piece of paper, they made those simple similes and metaphors complex. For example, using the dark cave from above, a student may have written, "I am a dark cave of emotions after watching a scary movie." or "I am an active volcano ready to spurt out my knowledge during the trivia game." This is the finished product (minus cover), when it is all closed up. Once these were done, the fun began. The students were given a four pieces of paper with a person figure on each. I had pre-drawn a line separating their head, from the midsection, and then the legs. On each section, they put either a simile or metaphor. They then drew a that part of the body to resemble the metaphor. The students then cut the slips, so that you could mix and match the different parts...all of which came together to make the author (mimicking the last line of Quick as a Cricket). When you open up the flaps, the "story" changes. You can make any mixture you want! Another view with different flaps open (sorry it is so blurry! iPhone does that sometimes)
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An educational and entertaining look at what life was like in Colonial America. From moldy food and dirt covered clothes to poisonous pests and extreme weather, American colonists did not have the easiest lives. Items that we take for granted like deodorant and soap were no where to be found. A great way to get kids interested in history and appreciative of our lives today.
He was unjustly imprisoned, tortured, and executed. But he left a priceless lesson about the gift of life before he departed.
