Your students are cleaned up and you have a few minutes until their teacher comes. . . don't get caught having a staring contest with your students (confession: I had a staring contest today with a group of 25 second graders me versus them, I lost.) The next few posts will be about quick time fillers to keep your students engaged (and behaving) even in the last few minutes of class. Some ideas will be great for reviewing material and some will be just plain fun to keep your "classroom climate" happy during the few crazy weeks before holiday break. Today's Post is about VENN DIAGRAMS!!!! Venn Diagrams, remember them? We can use these scientific and important charts in the art room too. Comparing and contrasting just about anything in a Venn Diagram makes me feel oh so "teachery." Yesterday we compared Tempera Paint and Watercolors. You can compare and contrast just about anything whether it is art mediums, art works, or even comparing arts to other disciplines (for example: How is art class like science? How is it different?) If you forgot Venn Diagrams from 3rd grade let me refresh your memory. Draw two overlapping circles on the board like this. Label each circle. I used Tempera Paint on the left and Watercolor Paint on the right. We then added our observations about both. The things they have in common went in the middle ("You need to use a brush for both.") The things that are unique to each go on their own side ("Watercolors are see translucent.") Do you have any quick "no fluff filler" activities that you'd like to share!? Since I haven't been posting in a while, you probably didn't know my baby grew up!!! She's 21 months now and the reason I am away from the blog (along with my masters class.) Thank you for continuing to read! I enjoy reading your posts and have lessons and pictures for when time allows. She looks so big in her new artsy hat (compliments of some local weavers.)
