Portfolios

These are some Portfolio covers, These are where they keep all of their work

Hard working 2nd Graders

Hard working second graders making their umbrella color wheel. I was proud.

OPEN HOUSE

We are having OPEN HOUSE Tomorrow!!!!!

The way we work. Part 2 3rd-5th grade

Now the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have a slightly different task when they first enter the art room. They have sketchbook entries. It is a way I can incorperate writing into art. I do this in other ways but this is a guarenteed way that it will be done in class, sometimes we run out of time to do the other writing activities. These do count as apart of their grades.  I wised up this year and made special pages for them to put on the front and on the inside of their sketchbooks instead of having them make them, that took to much time away from working. It is working out well. So next year I will just put that on the supply list.

 There is a prompt on the board and they just follow the directions and they work for just seven minutes.

I really enjoy reading some of their entries. This also introduces them to different artist that I might not have time to go over in depth.

They way we work.

In the art room I know that lots of people think that we,The Art teachers have the messes rooms ever. Paint and water and crayons everywhere. Hahah sometimes this is true, some days and classes are just messy then others. The truth is that you have to be super organized when you work as an art teacher or as a special area teacher. You see over 100 students a day and over 500 students in a week. Hey most people don' t see that many people in a month. Parents don't realized that we see their child plus everyone else child and we are using paint, crayons, paper, glue scissors  and whatever else you can think of all in 45mins. Oh and we have to be cleaned up before the next class arrives in the next five minutes. So we have to be pretty organized to make sure we know what goes where and that the students know what's going on. So here is how we do it at the Palm.

 Students come in and on the table are caddies with general materials like pencils, pens, markers, color pencils scissors and glue. The students like this and I do too because everything you need is right there. I usually try to have all the pencils sharpen, but if not I just sharpen them during class or have some helpers do it.

 Here are the drawers that are in the room for each class from Kindergarten to 3rd grade. When they put their name on their work, they also put the teacher's name or code and the date. Sometimes students or teacher put the wrong work in the wrong drawer, it happens. This helps also at the end of class for students to know where to put the work and it is out of the way so the next class doesn't touch it.

 Each table has a color coded folder which I laminated at the district media center ( I love that place). It has the teacher name so the students know which drawer to put them in after we are done with class.

 So because of the lack of extra pull out drawers. I have given my upper grades, 4th and 5th grade their own personal folders, Thanks sharing tree this would not be possible with out you. They are located on the counter and every thing is labeled.

Just make a mark and see where it takes you

One of the stories I read to my first graders is a book called " The Dot" by Peter Reynolds. It's a story about a girl in art class who felt that she couldn't draw and her teacher encouraged her to just make a mark on the paper and the mark she made was a dot. That dot encouraged her to emerge as an artist and encourage other children to make art. Awesome book! Here are some of our "DOT" masterpieces.

 Mya

 Jadien

 Saniah

 Keyvon

 Amari

Arelyh

Breanna

Carmen

Jamie

It's a great story and it is not very long. If you don't have the book you can listen to it with your children on you tube.

MOUSE PAINT Color WHEELS

Well my first Graders are finishing up their MOUSE PAINT COLOR WHEELS. Here are some of the finished color wheels. I was really proud of them, most of them turned out well. I did have some that did not turn out not so well but it was a great improvement from last year and I was really happy about that.

 Llana

 Danny

 

 Jamie

Carmen