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Your students are going to love this rhyming leaves match-up in your classroom! Easy to set up and so much fun to do in your literacy center.
Drying rice for sensory bins is super EASY! It may look overwhelming at first, but I’ll show you how to make single-colored AND rainbow rice with 4 easy steps. Once...
Sometimes the most beautiful shoes are those that are perfectly designed, expertly balanced, and just exactly the right style. Jane is just such an oxford. You may think she is plain, but with svelte lines and classic colors, these vintage reproductions are everything you've been dreaming of in a practical, everyday lace-up shoe. Built on a new round-toe vintage last with a high toe box and our sturdy 1.6 in / 4 cm Cuban heel, the Jane Oxfords are designed specifically for those seeking a no-fuss shoe that is comfortable, attractive, and durable. The Janes are ideal for all attire from the 1920s to the 1960s, especially for CC41 compliant and military uniform shoes. Available in five colors, wear them for WAC, Land Girl, WAVES, Marines, medical units and impressions, and all civilian attire. Jane comes in a high-shine, glacé finish based on originals. [custom tab] Sizing Size Trends Runs true to size for most customers. Width Regular (B) width Size Chart [/custom tab][custom tab] Materials Color Black Upper 100% Calf Leather Lining Pigskin leather Sole Leather Heel Leather veneer w/ stacked look Heel Height 1.6 inch / 4 cm Footbed Lightly Padded Closure Laces Origins Design Designed in Reno, Nevada, USA Materials People's Republic of China Assembly Made in China [/custom tab]
So simple and fun, create a Halloween spiderweb sensory bottle to celebrate this October. I love adding materials that kids can use to make their own bottles for an awesome visual sensory experience. Not too
Hi! I am Carolyn from Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together. Every year I look forward to my Eric Carle unit. I use his books...
Bogolanfini (mud cloth) is a traditional art form of the Bamana people from the country of Mali. The traditional way of creating these clot...
Fall song for preschool with free printable lyrics. This super simple song is perfect for autumn circle times or music circles.
Thank you for the overwhelming response to the Rise and Shine Binder! I have had a lot of questions about how I plan to implement the activities when coffee and...
Your kids will love this plant theme playdough invitation to play. Here are lots of material ideas to make an exciting plant & garden-themed playdough tray. When I was a kid, I loved helping my
When it comes to eating healthy foods they did a number of great activities to learn all about how to eat healthy at Brighten Academy Preschool in Clovis, California! Check out all the cool things t
This week the 1st graders are revisiting the use of value and secondary colors in art. Many of the classes created MLK portraits with their ...
Learn how to make pretend snow with only 2 simple ingredients. The perfect winter sensory play idea.
Searching for local artist inspiration a little while ago, I came across the work of Jeremy Sicile-Kira. I soon discovered that Jeremy is autistic and that he is nonverbal. One of the ways he communicates with the world is through his painting. I love his bold, bright palette and his use of masking tape to create lines throughout his compositions. I have since used his work as inspiration for painting experiments with a couple groups of students. I have 2 class moderate/severe special education classes and I thought his world would lend itself so well to experiments with liquid media and color mixing. We broke the process down into 3 parts- coloring a sheet with crayon while trying to use the side of the crayon, then placing tape down and adding color with cake tempera, adding more tape and more cake tempera, and finally, more tape and liquid tempera. The cake tempera gave us transparent colors while the liquid temperas gave us more opaque colors. The first class is younger and required more hand over hand assistance with these steps. The second group is older and more independent and through the activity with less help. At the end of each experiment, students helped each other add paint to large canvases that were already taped. Again, exploring color mixing. Earlier in the year, they created the first layers of color on these by driving vehicles through primary color paint to make secondary colors. I've also introduced Jeremy's work to my first graders and when doing so, I have talked about how he is a wonder like Augie from "We're All Wonders', which the 1st grade team has read. With these experiments, students have followed the same steps, although the first layer of crayon is a bit more complex in shape and detail. With each step, we talk about creative choices- what parts of the image do they want to protect from the next layer of paint. We also go over proper care of each of the paint mediums and the paint brushes. The activities have been a blast to do with each of the groups- there has been A LOT of excitement as the tape gets peeled off at the end of the activity.
Little M&M is 2 years and 1 month old. Stacking Cheerios We started off our circle unit with something Honey Pot did when she was learn...
The 2nd graders are starting their color unit by learning about warm and cool colors this week. To help them with this, I'm using a piece of concept art from the Disney movie Big Hero 6. (the big bummer for me right now is that I can't figure out who the concept artist who made it actually is!) Before starting with the day's work, we review what the kids learned in their last project- the abstract landscapes inspired by Jason Messinger's clay tiles. We talk about dark and light, hard and soft, and big and small. I tell the kids that we are going to use all that stuff again today and that all of those are examples of contrast in art. We then get into one more pair of contrasts- warm and cool colors. We identify them and I write them on the board. I also show the kids where they are located in my room, so if they aren't sure when they are working on their drawing, they can look at the list on the board and/or look at the visual examples posted in the back of the room. When I share the bridge drawing from San Fransokyo, we talk about how it is an example of combining two places- San Francisco and Tokyo, Japan to make something new. The concept artist took the Golden Gate bridge and modified it with traditional Japanese architectural elements. We also identify that the sky is cool and the bridge is warm, that the sky is light and the bridge is bold. The bridge is big in the front and small in the back. The project is done with both chalk pastels and oil pastels. Students pick warm or cool to use in the chalk background and use the opposite on the foreground bridge with their oil pastels. We do the sky first and then draw over it for the bridge. Students can add flair to their bridge and light posts if they wish to make it more unique. This has been a very successful project in terms of correctly splitting their drawing into warm and cool parts, as well as creating a sense of 3d space. I love the dragon head light posts! look at baymax fly!
Zamorano Fine Arts Academy student work and real-world collaborations. Art projects created by K-5 students in San Diego.
This week the 4th graders finished up their Rodney Alan Greenblat drawings. They also completed exit slips that had them reflecting on how they created contrast and what was the most successful part of their drawing... and WHY:) That left each class with about 45 minutes to do a quick line drawing activity that reinforced the same concepts while creating something that looked a lot different than their RAG compositions. For this activity , I shared a couple illustrations done by Mexican designer and illustrator Victor Melendez. He uses variety in line to create contrast in his work. He also heavily relies on contour line to define his shapes and add pattern elements that enrich his work further. We also looked at how one of his final designs was different than the sketch he did. We talked about how this type of revising is an important part of the artistic process. Changes, improvements, and risks are still taken when preliminary work is translated to finished pieces:) "Tell Me Jaguar" Inspired by a song of that name from the Mexican rock band Jaguares. After introducing his work and how it compared and contrasted with Rodney's, students were tasked with creating 2 different animal designs that showed symmetry while also used line to create pattern and shape. They picked one of those designs to do slightly larger (6x9) and drew it out softly. They used thick and thin markers to create contrast again and then added color to the background to add contrast that way as well. Now, these drawings aren't as refined as their first projects, but I wanted to give them a chance to explore similar concepts with a different look in a shorter amount of time. There was a lot of variety in the individual approaches to this activity, just as there was with the RAG drawings. I'm looking forward to the ideas these kids explore for the rest of the year! Below, are a few more RAG inspired drawings that were completed this week. Cool stuff!
Do your kids LOVE Brown Bear, Brown Bear as much as mine? This story is such a classic I just had to plan a week theme around Bears and our favorite Brown Bear books. Here were our plans for Bear week: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite bear […]
Grab your lesson plan book because I'm sharing all my favorite weather activities designed for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
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It is finally starting to feel like fall here in Wisconsin which means lots of fun traditions like apple picking, hay rides, and pumpkin patches. This was the perfect week to do fall themed tot school activities and talk about the changing weather. Here were our plans for Fall Week: And here are the details […]
Bogolanfini (mud cloth) is a traditional art form of the Bamana people from the country of Mali. The traditional way of creating these cloths is to hand weave the cloth and hand dye it with plant juices and mud. When I introduce the art of the mud cloth I point out that for many years it was the women of the Bamana that created this art form. The men did the weaving of the cotton cloth, but the women were and still are, in most cases, responsible for the visual designs. Also, even though the designs are abstract in style, the different patterns and shapes have distinct meanings behind them, as do the colors chosen to fill the designs. Each mud cloth tells its own story due to the combination of different shapes, patterns, and colors. The mud cloths were originally made for the Bamana's own people, but now they are also made for and appropriated by people around the world as many different people are engaged by the bold graphic qualities of these designs. Along with the powerpoint I use to discuss the Bogolanfini, I also use a site by the Smithsonian that allows you to build your own digital mud cloth. It breaks down the steps of the process and provides titles for patterns used so students can see how a narrative occurs on the cloth. For this 1st grade project I had the students work with a partner, so that their painted mud cloth could be a little larger(12x18") for the hour we had to do it. 1. teams folded their paper in half and then divided it into 6 parts. we tried to keep the outside borders thinner because of the variety we saw in the Bamana cloths 2. teams work together and decide what patterns they want in each section. i also emphasized making a pattern with the patterns across the cloth 3. after drawing with pencil, students added white, then brown, then a tint or tints of brown, and finally, black tempera paint to their designs One of our 5th grade teachers, Ms. Liggins, did a project similar to this with her 5th grade students this year and they came out fantastic!
Here is my month of April Tot School plans. Come along with us as we discover lots of yellow, Easter fun, birds & eggs and bunnies!
Zamorano Fine Arts Academy student work and real-world collaborations. Art projects created by K-5 students in San Diego.
Need a fun activity for the kids this spring? Get creative with a bird nest sensory bin! It's an easy, engaging way to explore the season and have some
The 5th graders are going retro this week. Some with a sculpture project and others with a collage project. 3 classes are creatin...
A few weeks ago, I worked with the 1st graders on a clay project that was inspired by the fabulously textured and glazed ceramic pieces by Charity Hofert. The first three 1st grade classes got to glaze their clay flowers last week. I had to wait the whole weekend to see what they turned out like:( Today I cracked open the kiln and got to see these. Upon closer inspection, they looked like this. Some of the texture patterns showed up better than others, but in each piece you can see that the kids worked the surface of each piece they shaped. Five more classes need to glaze their flowers. I decided to have each class work with an analogous color scheme, or as I tell them, a color family. The kids selected one clay layer for each of the 3 colors in the family they were working with. The final step, was to lightly sponge a fourth color onto one of their layers to give the piece just a little more visual variety. Once all the classes are done glazing, I would love to install them temporarily as a group installation somewhere. I plan on contacting some local businesses to see if they would help us put on a show near our school. I think a flower field that had a natural flow to it would look pretty cool. I played on the floor for a few minutes today:) Once again, our first graders have impressed me. Thanks for the inspiration, Charity. I'll post more pics when all the classes are done.
We are off and running at Zamo! As usual, I am starting the school year off with a collaborative project that is low stress and high impac...
Pumpkin Drawing is a fun and easy way for your little one to decorate pumpkins this Halloween! The perfect activity for small and big kids!
Today is our last of this week Story Book Summer with the Jungle theme - all summer long we are sharing posts bringing books alive for children with our Storybook summer this weeks theme all about
Charting the best ever red carpet looks at the Cannes Film Festival, including Jane Birkin, Audrey Hepburn and more.
