Welcome back to school! Are you ready? We start our staff meetings tomorrow and then the kids come on Wednesday! With the new school year starting, I thought I would highlight some old posts that might be helpful to you. Create a Welcome to Our School bulletin board! Making a collaborative bulletin board display is a great way to start the year. I have some new ideas for this year, but here is an example from the past! Here are … Read more…
Well, another school year has begun! We’ve had one week of classes and I have been pleased with my student’s behavior, effort and creativity thus far. What I was not pleased with was catching strep throat the first week of school! I had to stay home the second day. 🙁 My daughter got sick the week before, so I that is where I got my illness from. I am mostly back to normal now, so let’s hope the rest of … Read more…
Here is the banner I designed for school! I’m so excited for our school to expand to hold more classes and for our school to have more space for the arts. I am not trained in graphic design, but I had a lot of fun designing in Adobe Illustrator. This was the logo that was sent to the printers. This was another design I submitted that I loved a lot too.
All of my classes have been busy making sketchbook covers. Here are a few more assignments by grade level: 1st Grade Initials:I saw this idea at Art Projects for Kids. The background has crayon texture rubbings and watercolor paint. 3rd Grade: The students wrote their names in cursive and then surrounded the name with repeating colorful lines. 4th/5th Grade Names: They drew their names and then covered the negative space with patterns. Similar to this idea… Name Tangles. … Read more…
It has been a busy 2 weeks and a rough transition back to school. The actual “school” part has been just fine. The problems have been with coordinating my schedule and “life balance.” I will talk about that more at the end of this post, but first I will show you some pretty pictures. We have been making sketchbook covers from donated file tab dividers. My sister-in-law works in medical records and they were transferring everything over to digital, so … Read more…
Juan Miro is one of my favorite artists. I used artwork by Miro to help the kids learn the difference between abstract and realistic art. The kids analyzed his artwork and we categorized prints. Then, they drew a squiggly line with their eyes closed. Then they turned their paper around to view it from many angles. The kids tried to find different things in their picture.. faces, hands, animals, etc. They could add details to their drawing. Some added … Read more…
The first week of school we decorated our sketchbook covers… went over rules…. Now the classes are starting their first projects.. for example 2nd graders are making Andy Warhol style self-portraits, 1st graders are painting sunflowers… pics will be coming soon! The company that makes Smart Fab sent me 2 sample rolls to try and perhaps share about on my blog. I’m not sure what to do with it yet, but I was excited to get it. I will have … Read more…
