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This is one of my FAVORITE art lessons for 2nd grade!! I LOVE each and every one of them!! (More info. and how they were created below! Plus a little virtual gallery walk video!) &nbs…
A few weeks ago our little daredevil had her first x-ray due to a little jumping on the bed incident. Yup 1 little monkey jumping on the bed, she fell off and bumped her head… broke her clavicle. Well ever since, she has been fascinated with the bones inside her body so there couldn’t be […]
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I have updated this link with a freebie! Click here to get there. "No, David" is one of our favorite books to begin the year or use anytime we need a little review of what our classroom expectations are. One corner of our classroom is devoted to David and our school rules. We read the book several times then the students chose one rule they thought was especially important to them and they typed their rule during Computer Lab time. Then each student created a picture of David and they turned out AMAZING! We had so much fun with David this year that we decided to use iMovie to create a short video of David following the rules and showed the video to the entire school. How FUN! If you would like to view the video you can see it on my classroom webpage. The poster shown above was printed at Staples. I used PhotoShop to edit the title to fit our lesson and class.
So my daughter came home with this beautiful geometric craft project she made at school. When I was talking to her teacher she told me she just cut out a bunch of shapes and let the kids go wild wi…
National Skyscraper Day is September 3rd, the birthday of Louis Henry Sullivan, the “father of skyscrapers.” To celebrate, we decided to explore all there is to know about skyscrapers, including building one of our own! This activity turns out to be more than just a creative building exercise. It involves teamwork, problem-solving, and some math […]
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Well first off my little bloggy venture with Ffion from The First Grade Jungle is up! Please go check it out and enter in our giveaway! We are super excited about it! Second, since I have been absent for sometime now I figured I would catch you up and unload everything I have been storing on my camera. This means picture overload! Sorry. Generating Questions before reading (inspired by The Inspired Apple) Character Glove thanks to inspiration from Debbie Diller. I use this during small group as well. New workstation I added this year: Overhead. So far my students can write their words, make their words with magnets or letter tiles. I will be added sentence strips I made which I will print on transparencies and students can fill in the blanks. (Hopefully I will add this to TpT soon!) I just purchased the clear tiles and then wrote letters onto the tiles. Very simple and the kids LOVE this work station. Writing/ Handwriting Workstation. This will be transitioning into only writing next week. Another new workstation I added was the Non-Fiction Reading Station. I really wanted to promote my students to read to find out new information about a topic. I added a variety of books on various levels. I discussed with the students that they would still need to use the "good fit book" strategy to find books to read during this time. This year my kids REALLY love the Poetry Work Station. They get upset if they do not have time to finish and illustrate their poem. Love it. ABC/ Word Study Workstation Library Work Station Anchor Charts: Behavior Chart And a little reminder… Happy Monday :)
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some of 1/2B's beautiful bridge silhouettes Lesson Background: My class have been engaged in a Technology unit for the past few week...
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For this months Virtual Book Club we read The Foggy, Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt. We loved how the pages looks and how much fun they were. What you need: baby oil, paper, foam paint brush, and black paint. They
Learning how to make tissue paper flowers comes in SO handy! Next time you need an easy, but impressive, birthday party decoration, you can make some paper tissue flowers! I have even seen people decorate their kids and teens bedrooms with clusters of these paper flowers. The original inspiration for this craft comes from Mexico! […]
Do you need a an engaging articulation activity to mix up your speech sessions? Grab an ink pad and this resource! It is an activity that keeps students busy during practice. My students love making thumbprint art and yours will too! No Prep and Ink Friendly ⭐ Please note: This pack is included in my Articulation Thumbprints bundle #2 Do not buy this pack if you own the bundle. This download contains following sounds: initial/final: p, b, m; final: n, t, d; initial/medial/final: k, g, f, v, l, s, z, ch, j, th, sh; pre-vocalic r; vocalic r (er, ar, or, air, ear, ire); rblends; lblends; sblends (separate mats for sp, st, sm, sn, sk, sl, sw, mixed). I also included an open-ended page. First practice, then make a thumbprint fish! →Please note: There are 12 target words on each page (2 of each, totaling 24 words). Materials Needed: Ink pad or paint, fishy thumbprint articulation pages Optional Assembly: You can also place in a sheet protector or laminate to use with play dough. To use: The student will practice the word and then make a thumbprint scale on the oval over the word. The student will place their thumb on an ink pad and then stamp it in the paper. Use the blank template as a craft or reinforcer with any activity (or write your own target words on them). Variations: Use paint instead of ink Use play dough to smash to make the scales. Use bingo chips to place over the words. Use bingo dotters or crayons Check out more thumbprint craft activities A Bunch of Speech: Grapes Spider Thumbprints for Articulation Thumbprints Leaves for Articulation Frog Thumbprints for Articulation Christmas Lights Thumbprints for Articulation Buzzing Bees Thumbprints for Articulation Christmas Lights Thumbprints for Articulation You may also like these toy companions: Flip frogs in a pond while practicing articulation! Frog Launching Pad Race cars while practicing articulation! Articulation Racing Mats Feed farm animals and practice articulation: Artic Feeding Mats for Farm Animals Toss Pom Poms in cups while practicing articulation! Artic Toss Wind-up toy companion: Wind Up Artic To get notified of sales and freebies, sign up for my email list! I send out monthly freebies, tips, and news! Panda Speech Mail
You and your kids will love putting together these simple helicopters and watching them fly! *Video below
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Kindergarten artists read the book inspired by Paul Klee called, "The Cat and the Bird." We also looked at the images in the Paul Clay's book entitled, "Animal Tricks." We talked about the art elements of line and shape and used to them to create our own Paul Klee inspired cats. We also reviewed the art elements of shapes, lines and colors. We used shapes to draw the cats, lines to create a line pattern, and cool colors to use in the background. We used cool colors to create line patterns in the background. We reviewed warm and cool colors by putting images with these colors into a Venn Diagram on the board. We like to write our learning goal on the back of our artworks to share with our parents what we were learning about when we take our artwork home. Learning Goals; I can recognize some of Paul Klee's artwork. I can use lines to create a line pattern. I can find shapes in an artwork. I can separate warm colored markers from cold colored markers. I can create my own Klee inspired cat.
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It's taken YEARS to get my wall of wisdom. When I teach, I learn. I learn that kids are visual creatures. Stuff just sticks better if you show it with a picture. So, all the wise things I have learned over the 15 plus years of teaching I have put into a poster form. There's still a lot of ideas floating around in my brain, but it takes time to get them all out. I know not all art teachers have time to make their own posters. So i decided a few years back that very time I make a poster, I scan it and put it on TPT (Teacher Pay Teacher) to share the opportunity for other teachers to use it in their classrooms as well. Please visit my store. Here you will download the image of the poster only. You take that download and print it from your printer, send it to an online photo center and get it shipped to your house, or take you download to a photo store to have printed in house. My secret? I sign up for CVS and Walgreen photo coupons and wait for a 50% off everything sale. Then I print me some poster. That is how I get all mine down. People always ask me how they print out, are they pix led or high quality? I scan them at home on the highest digital capability on my scanner. so, when you print them big, it looks great too. Visit Store Here... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher I have included a lot of pictures below of how they turn out in real life. Tired of saying the same thing OVER AND OVER to your students! JUST A DOT, NOT A LOT!! I was. That's why I started making posters in the first place, just for me and my classroom. But things are so much more peaceful now when I have posters that say it. A poster speaks a thousand words, you know. Go see what I have I store for you and your classroom walls.. Oh, if only walls could speak.. WAIT, they can! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher My Newest Poster Get it here... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Creativity-Takes-Courage-Poster-3413925 Visit my TeacherPayTeacher store here. Got lots of colorful designs to give your classroom "class" and brighten up your walls. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher Check it out Yall'. All of these poster ideas come from 14 years of teaching! I repeat the same phrases, rules or rhymes to my students and it just didn't seem to stick. Then I just started making illustrations of those things and there I was... with a big WALL OF WISDOM! I just keep adding and adding. Now I'm addicted to making POSTERS! I love lettering and illustrating. I love color and details. I love ART! If you have an idea for a design, something that you have learned or teach your kids, let me know. It may be my next poster! Please visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store where you can get your own posters for your classroom! Yay, you might just find a free one there... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher As an art teacher, there are things that I am continually telling my students. Things like... "You are responsible for your own mess", or "Art requires patience above talent!", "There's no excuse for messiness!", "Don't use a waste a new piece of paper when you can use an eraser!". Instead of repeating myself, I decided years ago to make a "Wall of Wisdom". It is full of ideas to make your art better or my philosophy of a good art attitude. This was my old wall of poster... New wall at new school... I've went Art Elementary in 2014 ;) after 10 years of MIddle School Elementary boys = PAPER AIRPLANES!!! WHat's the deal? And they are not even CREATIVE! Maybe if they drew windows with passengers peeking through... or something, but NO! SO, I have decided to BAN THEM FROM MY ROOM! "Let your Imagination fly... NOT YOUR PAPER!" T. Morgan Kill the dead space! Fill it up with life, learn to turn! Dear art student, I am not impressed by your speed. It's slow and steady that won. Love, Mrs. Morgan Improved version Purchase this Poster here... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Slow-and-Steady-Wins-the-A-2710822 I have some kids that get super excited when they are the first ones done with their work. Being quick is not always a good thing. Remember the tortoise and the hare? Sometimes that means they did not take the time to be neat or to complete the work. So, slow and STEADY wins the race. Some kids work hard at first, then get tired, then quit doing their best. If you start neat, finished neat. Be consistent with your work. I let kids know on the first day of school, that I do not grade them based on talent. Nobody can pick their talents when they are born. I am sure if they had a choice, all students would choose to be artistically inclined. So, I grade on their "ARTtitude". Do they try, do the fix mistakes, do they improve, do they listen to advice? Or do they give up, give half effort, or turn work in knowing it could be better? It takes blood, sweat, and tears. It's about distance vs. speed. My pet peeve is when kids waste paper! They put one measly mark down and then throw it away! UGHHHHH! I want to just throw erasers at those wasters! So, I made this sarcastic ad for the NEWEST INVENTION... THE ERASER! You don't have to be talented to be neat. It just takes special care and patience. All you have to do is a back and forth motion with your hand while holding a crayon... it's not that hard. So, I do grade hard on kids who are sloppy. It is just them telling me they don't care. It's a bad "art"titiude. In most cases, it is best to color dark. It shows up better, it pops out, and it reveals the true color. At least if you don't color the inside dark, then emphasize it by outlining dark on the outside. Plus, coloring darker is harder and more time consuming, which in the end shows more care. I tell the kids that if the paper is big, draw big. Fill the space up. The picture is more important than the emptiness behind it. Drawing bigger allows the artist to include more detail as well. If you have the room, use it! Otherwise, you are wasting. Patience is a virtue... You have to practice patience while you create art. When my students work hard by showing patience, I like to post their work online. The great educational philosopher Harry Wong said something like this when I saw him speak. I just took what he said and make a poster for it. I let the kids talk while they work. As long as they do this responsibly, But, if they talk more than they work, inhibit others from working because of their talking, or they fail because of their mouth, then they have a problem that needs to be fixed. Art, the most important meal of the day. Shhhhhhh!.... Draw secret, soft & light lines if you're not sure in the beginning stages. If you draw hard, yiu make it harder on yourself to fix. I try to teach kids to avoid putting the too much pressure on their pencils in the beginning stages of drawing. So many times, they mess up, try to erase, but can't get rid of their original drawing lines. Then I make them use the back of the paper. If they already did, then I make them erase the lightest side. I do this to teach them to draw light till they KNOW they have it right. Kids beat, bang, and drop colored pencils. This tears them apart! Then they try to sharpen them and the lead falls out. It is a horrible result of an abused supply. I have this to encourage them to treat the pencils like glass. I keep the markers in a vertical storage tip down. This allows the flow of the ink to travel to the tip. It increases the life of the markers. Some kids do not close the glue. This open hole lets air in and that air hardens the remaining glue under the cap. Then kids think that jabbing a larger hole in a clogged up glue bottle will make it work better. It will temporarily make it work better for them right then, but in the long run, this massive hole they poked just makes the tip get clogged even more from the extra air that gets in it. This is a never ending cycle! Since this annoys me, I made a poster to try to get my point across. I also get tired of kids not cleaning brushes out. Then the paint dries on the brush, hardens the tip and it is never able to be used again. Or, they do clean it, but leave it with the bristles down. Then it dries bent and is permanently bent. My are teacher from High School, Mrs. Liddell, had a poster like this one. I liked it, so I made one for my classroom. "Your mamma doesn't live here, so clean up your own mess". My self made Principles chart... Self made Elements chart... Somplified my charts for elementary ;) I decided to make this motivational poster for my classroom just recently. I did some research behind it and found the history of the original very interesting. So, this is my parody of the We Can Do It poster. ------------ Think positive! Mini Masterpiece wall (Index card art) 4 kids per table, everybody has a purpose. Rules and rewards... Palette of positivity. Each class has a paper palette that colored stickers are added to for noticeable efforts. http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2013/04/we-can-do-itart-classroom-encouragment.html And that is my Art Class. Hope you are more the wiser!
An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.
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