Changing your curriculum and/or teaching philosophy can be overwhelming, and at times, you might not know where to begin. This article will take 8 minutes to read.
The Difference Between TAB and Choice and Why It Matters % %
I don't like to use up much time in class explaining things. I just don't. I would rather a mad frenzy than a bunch of yawns. I find it tricky to gets kids warmed up to the art classroom at the beginning of the year. At the grand opening of the Painting Center this year, we began work on a 100 Color Challenge. My hope is that by working with a partner in this color exploration my students will discover new ways to create colors and use these in their paintings throughout the year. So far they are having a blast!
Are you looking to move your art class towards choice-based or TAB? This simple planning sheet is a great starting place for your students! Give students the opportunity to create what interests them using materials they enjoy!
In March of 2017, Greenfield City Parks and Recreation Superintendent Ellen Kuker, Hancock County Arts Coalition member Steve Vail and...
Inside: Nazca Lines craft for kids learning about Peruvian culture and history. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017! At the end of this post, find our Multicultural Kid Blogs HHM giveaway for some fun prizes. Today I’m sharing an exploratory Nazca lines craft. The project gives hands-on feel for these marvels of Peru, and how they were
Printmaking Studio Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Have you ever come up with a fantastic drawing? Have you wanted to make more than one? The printmaking studio is the right studio for YOU! The idea of printmaking is to make more than ONE...otherwise another studio might be a better option. In the printmaking studio, you can make; MONO PRINTS - one single print or EDITION- a series of identical images. There are several choices you have in the printing making studio. (*credit Juli Toole) Here are instructions for printmaking *What can you do with pattern paper? Take it to drawing, collage, painting? Build a structure? *Do you see the pattern printed paper? *How many studios did this artwork visit? *Do you see a printed border/frame? I could have used crayon, color pencil or marker for the sky but printmaking created pattern and more WOW! Gelli Prints (Anne Bedrick) Gelli Monoprint Ghost Print - second print off the original How to STRETCH your printmaking Print a border around a drawing Print several prints on one piece of paper Print papers to use in collage color directly onto a print.
By Yuval Zommer The Big Book of Nature Art is packed with twenty-two easy art activities inspired by nature. Each of the activities can be achieved in four simple steps using natural materials combined with recycled or found materials from around the home and basic craft supplies. Little nature artists will enjoy makin
Michaelangelo is an incredible artist that children study at school or as part of a homeschool curriculum. We spent all our art lessons in the month of March this year...
One of my favorite art movements is Pop Art and I love it! I love the artists, I love what came out of it! As well, I think teaching art lessons that are inspired by the Pop Art Movement is a great way to engage the learners in your classroom. Let's look at 5 Pop Art Lesson ideas for Kids in your classroom!
I have a quick and simple tip for you today. Another teacher gave me this tip a few years ago and I love it! (I wish I remembered who gave me this tip and where they got the idea from so I could give the credit.) Do you ever start to give directions and you ... Read More about A quick classroom management tip
Illustrated art print showing a Map of Europe created from an original drawing by Holly Francesca. There is a choice of three different colour ways to select from. Want it framed? This print comes unframed & unmounted; all designs can be professionally framed for an additional £55 (same price for all print sizes). For UK orders please add this to your cart along with your chosen print: https://www.etsy.com/listing/748243257/professionally-framed-holly-francesca If ordering a framed print outside of the UK, please add this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/735307508/professionally-framed-holly-francesca This print would make a thoughtful gift for him or her; birthday, Christmas, anniversary, wedding, leaving gift and much more. Dimensions - Unframed Print Sizes: A4 (21 x 29.7cm) 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4cm) A3 (29.7 x 42cm) 11x14 inches (28x35.5cm) A2 (42 x 59.4cm) 16x20 inches (40x50.8 cm) A1: (59.4 x 84.1cm) 24x36 inches (61x91.4cm) 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 Unframed prints are sent for FREE via Royal Mail 24 Tracked delivery within the UK and Royal Mail International Tracked for orders outside of the UK. For customers in USA, Canada and Australia we now use local print partners, which means we can now send unframed prints to you for FREE & quicker too as they do not need to pass through customs. Lead times: We usually dispatch within 2-3 days. If you have an urgent deadline, please send us a message and we will help you further. Packaging: Prints are sent rolled in postal tubes, all packaging used can be recycled. Made from: All designs are printed using high quality pigment fine art inks on thick, matt white paper. This method is called Giclée printing. This is an open edition print. Please note colours may differ slightly due to your monitor. - - PERSONALISE - - In addition to the standard design here, personalisation is also available: You can add buildings (such as your house, wedding venue) to a map, which I draw from a photo: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/271019681/add-buildings-to-any-holly-francesca-map Or you can add an icon from the list of eight existing icons to the design: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/271131221/add-icons-to-any-holly-francesca-map-art Or you can add just text: https://www.etsy.com/listing/658099857/add-extra-text-to-any-holly-francesca There are so many special occasions in our lives. We can highlight were you got married, engaged, had a child or bought a house and many more on this map. Simply add this design to your shopping cart and then just click on the links above to add extra buildings, text and/or icons (or you can add all three) into this design to make something truly one-off! Description: Discover our stunning illustrated art print showcasing a map of Europe, originally drawn by Holly Francesca. Choose from three different colorways to suit your style. This unique piece makes a thoughtful gift for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, or any special occasion.
I am NOT a traveling art teacher this year (for the first time EVER! Can I get a "hallelujah"?!) and my newly opened scheduled allowed for some great opportunities. The 5th grade teachers in my building were the first ones to jump on board with my crazy idea, so they became my guinea pigs. Because of their RtI groups, they had some students that didn't need reading interventions. So...what do you do with THOSE kids, while you're trying to work in small groups with the kids who DO need the interventions?? You send them to the Art Room! I get between 12 and 18 kids, twice a week for 30 minutes, for 6 weeks. Then, another batch of kids comes in for the next 6 weeks, and so on, for the entire year. Each student works through the artistic process at their own pace and they are given much freedom when it comes to subject matter and media. The directions I gave in the beginning were simple: 1. Be inspired. 2. Choose a media. 3. Go through the artistic process. 4. Reflect afterwards. Subject matter was up to each student. Different media stations were opened up a regular intervals (drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture). I checked in with each student each day so we could check on their progress, answer questions, and problem solve together. After a project was finished, they completed a writing assignment that asked them to reflect on the entire process. I've put together a video of what they've done so far this year - please enjoy! So, call it "TAB" or "Centers" or "Stations" - but whatever you decide to call it - just try it! Because if you've been considering offering more choice in your art program, I say "Go for it!" Being a major control freak, I was really nervous in the beginning, but by giving them more control over the process, they became more invested students and more creative students. Win-Win! ~Amy
Put an end to the early finisher challenge with these fun and engaging (and free!) choice board activities for early finishers!
Hey fellow art teachers! Ever wonder how to introduce to students to choice based art education? I've gotten so many questions about just how do my students know what supply to choose? How do they get that initial urge just to "play around" out of their systems? Well, here's an overview and glimpse into how I teach my students to choose wisely, and make educated choices that will ensure them success! The first six weeks: Exploratory Learning through Material Exploration Students enter the room and there are six "stations" set up. I usually make these stations more complex and higher level supplies such as Charcoal, Chalk Pastel, Oil Pastel, Watercolor Crayons/Pencils, Watercolor Palettes, and Liquid Tempera. These centers also help students experiment and learn how to properly use and manipulate each supply. Students fold a piece of paper into sixths, then have black markers at all tables so they can label each square with it's supply. Students then rotate through the tables(roughly 5 minutes per table) to experience each supply. I usually do not limit them to what they must draw in each box, we stick to simple drawings because the purpose of this activity is to gain experience and knowledge on each supply. So what are those papers labeled with the supply and the sticky notes? This is how students share their tips, suggestions, and thoughts with other students throughout the school about each supply. By each supply in the classroom, we have a chart that has two columns. One labeled "The Good" and "The Bad". Students post sticky notes with challenges they encounter while using this supply, or things the supply works very well with/for. Once the station day is over, the following class students review basic concepts such as using the elements of art within a piece as well as key genres of art such as portrait, landscape, still life, etc. These next 4-5 weeks are when we practice the procedures of responsibly getting up, retrieving, cleaning, and putting away supplies while completing review projects. It is crucial that students learn, understand, and demonstrate the ability to take care of their supplies and environment properly during these weeks. During these weeks I also introduce them to the concept of tracking their own time by using a darkroom film developer timer. It is color coded as follows: Yellow: 10 minutes of Group Instruction Green: 27 minutes of Independent Work Time Orange: 3 minutes (Clean up begins for paint, charcoal, chalk pastel) Red: 5 minutes of all students cleaning up their materials and work space. After these initial 6 weeks I have found that students are able to make educated choices about the remainder of their projects throughout the school year. I will admit, there are times that these procedures seem to be lost in the excitement of field trips, holiday breaks, or three day weekends. So what do I do when that happens? Well, we go back to the basics. If students are not properly cleaning up their supplies and classroom, they lose that supply for a week. If we have forgotten a simple procedure such as how we enter the classroom quietly, we stand up line up back outside, and try again until it is done correctly. The visual timer is great at these moments because they are able to see the time which they are losing that day because of their behaviors. So, there you go, a brief but hopefully helpful introduction to the daily life in a choice based art room. It may look like chaos when you walk into my room, but talk to any student, and you'll find inside, it's organized!
My favorite teaching units are my research and rhetorical analysis unit. I love teaching rhetorical analysis and assigning students a rhetorical analysis PAPA square. Read on to learn more about the rhetorical analysis PAPA square activity and to sign up to receive your own free copy! I love providing my students with the knowledge and resources they need to critically read and analyze text, know why it is powerful, and understand how the author crafted it. I feel that truly understanding the language and the text, primarily through rhetorical analysis, is something that makes all of my students critical thinkers.
16 art activities/prompts to engage kids in creative, tactile and interdisciplinary learning! Kids can choose challenges by closing their eyes and landing their finger on a random box, checking off the ones they complete as they go! ...
Instructions, techniques and tools for your drawing center in a TAB or choice-based classroom. uploaded corrected file 9/2016. please download the corrected file if you already own this.
A (way cool) 21st Century Elementary Art Room in Flower Mound, Texas
I love that the big topic this week has been teaching art to Kinders! This is a subject that I enjoy discussing because I love to teach ...
A master list of free art printables, art worksheets, and art PowerPoints from Art Class Curator to help you teach art appreciation and art history.
This is a lesson designed to teach value, grid drawing, and shading. In this lesson students will draw a silver balloon of their choice using the grid method. Students will create a value scale and shade the drawing using shading techniques to create a realistic balloon. This lesson will teach students about the correct graphite pencils to use, tips for using the pencil, how to find values in a drawing and how to find the relationship between values. Great lesson to use for an introduction to drawing unit. This can be completed digitally as students can use the instructions Included in this file is: Powerpoint lesson (8 pages) Letters A-Z balloons images Letters A-Z images with grid Grading Rubric Student example Value scales worksheet
The choice between the phrases there is and there are at the beginning of a…
So much Twitter love from my post about my walls this year. Y’all know how to make a girl feel good! I don’t have my lesson plans ready, and am not entirely sure what I’m doing on…
A lot of premade anchor charts for you to fill in. It includes these and more: Drawing (Chalk pastel, colored pencil, oil pastel, drawing pencils), Painting (tempera, watercolor), Collage (Adhesives), Sculpture (Paper, attaching methods), Clay (Vocabulary, tools, techniques, drying), Printmaking (Collagraph, Stamping, Vocabulary), Fibers (Stitching, weaving) The idea is to color or paint directly onto the boxes, glue the attachments and paper sculpture onto those pages, add QR codes of you showing the techniques, etc. It makes it personalized, but also makes sure all the info is included (and spell checked). These were written with K-5 in mind, but can be adjusted or added to for 6-12. Some of these can also be used as worksheets for students to fill in while they practice and experiment at centers!
Students use an Art self-evaluation to critique themselves and aid in the grading process.
Help students plan their individual artworks!This acts as a pre-assessment, establishes an understanding of revision and reflection, and also integrates smoothly as a part of a modified choice art classroom, geared to elementary grades. In order to help students develop their art skills, we as teach...
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Kelso is back in ACTION at Lee Elementary! Kelso & His Friend Lily sitting atop my bookshelf Students have been begging for Kelso to come visit their classroom with me and it is finally time! Kelso is our counseling mascot at Lee, helping students solve their problems with his simple wheel of choices: Kelso's Choices is a conflict-management curriculum that teaches children that they can be problem solvers themselves. Students learn to determine small problems they can handle on independently and large problems that require an adult's help. After reintroducing him to our students and having them explain how it works (see previous post here), we were ready to create our own Kelso to help us out. I was inspired by two different bloggers, Mrs. H & The Creative Counselor, and adapted their ideas to "Kelso-ize" them. In first grade, students made their Kelso's with his mouth containing the different choices they can try to resolve conflict: In second grade, students made a problem solving lily pad for Kelso and his choices. The bottom plate had the 9 choices glued onto it and the top plate had a slice cut out for them to spin it around until they found one they wanted to try:
I have used the reading workshop model for about 8 years now. It has changed a lot over the years! One thing that has stayed the same is the ‘Respond to Text’ station. This is a time where students get to write about their reading. The station stays the same all year, but the activities in the station change. Below is a list of activities you can add to your ‘Respond to Text’ station at the beginning of the year. 1. Bookmark Book Report At the beginning of the year, some students struggle to finish chapter books. I find that this bookmark book report helps them stay engaged in their reading. The students keep track of the pages they read, and complete activities as they read their book. There is a fiction and nonfiction version available for download. 2. Text Structures Tri-fold Students can use this trifold to ‘hunt’ for different text structures. Just put a basket of nonfiction books at the station and you are set! It’s a great way to get them reading nonfiction books. 3. Choice Board Students get to choose what activities they’d like to complete. This is great because it can be used for the story of the week (if you follow a basal) or the chapter book they are currently reading. You can have the students glue this page inside their reading notebook, or have them staple their responses to this sheet and turn in. Download the Printables: Click here to download the bookmark book report. Click here to download the text structures trifold and choice board. Add editing tasks to your reading workshop block! Math Resources: 1st Grade Tri-Folds 2nd Grade Tri-Folds 3rd Grade Tri-Folds 4th Grade Tri-Folds 5th Grade Tri-Folds Thanks for reading! I hope you will find these printable helpful :) Visit my blog @ Learning With Mrs S. Visit my TPT Store Follow me on Pinterest! Follow me on Instagram! Follow me on Facebook :)
Yes, You Can Write a TAB Lesson Plan % %
