tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81906514582415919702024-02-18T21:58:28.711-08:00Creating ArtA blog about creating art with children and adults...and what we learn along the way.Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-52981896422319698622012-08-04T12:52:00.000-07:002012-08-04T12:52:18.923-07:00Integrating Music & Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9YULLFMSycnaG42UJFML_1eU3jfAgRQukeaYaXPxIk72mK0LGaka9rIDYTPIyZeFGUKszGE5kGAiWhNQJNEHIPbm0c0CsiidbKm9wQ9qv_BeThMaFaC6iv74fFADRLTpZtdvxJrhNtNQ/s1600/IMG_1740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9YULLFMSycnaG42UJFML_1eU3jfAgRQukeaYaXPxIk72mK0LGaka9rIDYTPIyZeFGUKszGE5kGAiWhNQJNEHIPbm0c0CsiidbKm9wQ9qv_BeThMaFaC6iv74fFADRLTpZtdvxJrhNtNQ/s320/IMG_1740.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvY1QuklOQht2AGJv46RYJl-wbO01mtWQMuD1bmtIa-kI72kwp_iZPVfv92oCIDzVhj0HEfXRL214VLbiIXHpoAbpL58Ylmzge1eVrKhY4gGEKvvgYMCo0avEhif6Od8VRdtFANkMIdNHN/s1600/DSC00149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvY1QuklOQht2AGJv46RYJl-wbO01mtWQMuD1bmtIa-kI72kwp_iZPVfv92oCIDzVhj0HEfXRL214VLbiIXHpoAbpL58Ylmzge1eVrKhY4gGEKvvgYMCo0avEhif6Od8VRdtFANkMIdNHN/s320/DSC00149.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>It began with a single idea...to teach the art of Romare Bearden to my fourth graders. As I researched Romare's life, a major theme began to emerge, his love of jazz music and how it influenced his art. I realized I could not teach about his art without teaching about the music and the exciting time in our history known as the Harlem Renaissance. But, anyone that knows really me knows that I am not musical. I love music, and I love to sing, and I appreciate almost all genres of music. But, I am NOT musical. So, I decided to ask the music teacher if she could teach our students about Jazz, to set the stage for the art. She agreed, enthusiastically, and our integrated lessons began to form. Then I thought, there are SO many wonderful books on the subject of jazz musicians and African American artists form that period in history, that maybe the librarian wouldn't mind reading the students books on the subject. She decided to read books to the lower grades, and let the upper grades do research and write about a favorite artist or musician. The computer teachers had the upper grades do Power Points on jazz, choosing their favorite jazz instrument, musician and artist, writing about the Harlem Renaissance, and setting it all to music.<br />
The lessons in art were as follows:<br />
Kindergarten; Jazz Cat Collages<br />
1st grade: Mardis Gras masks and necklaces<br />
2nd grade: Jazz Instrument relief prints<br />
3rd grade: Jazz Instrument Paper collage<br />
4th grade: Romare Bearden Inspired mixed media collage<br />
5th grade: Paper Mache Jazz instruments<br />
There is so much I could say on the subject, and looking back on my blog sometimes I feel as if I write too much about a subject. So I will end with a few student comments about the integrated curriculum, and ask you to message me if you would like additional information about any of the lessons or how we went about doing this in our school.<br />
"I learned more about the saxophone by making one that I would have by reading words".<br />
"Now when I spend the weekend with my grandma and we listen to jazz on the radio, I can tell her what kind of jazz it is and I know some of the artists. That makes her smile really big". <br />
"I learned about jazz and art better because I had it in all my classes".<br />
When we asked the kids if they got tired about hearing about the same subject in all their classes, they all said "No way! It was fun! We wish we didn't have to stop!"Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-72610392974653547382011-12-27T16:22:00.000-08:002011-12-27T16:22:33.410-08:00Art is Cooler than TV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In my art room I hung two large sheets of butcher paper on my walls below my windows. One says "Art Is..." and the other says "Today in Art I Learned...". When my students are finished early with their projects, one of the things they can do is write on the posters. There are rules (and yes, I have had a couple students break them). The rules are...write only school appropriate statements on the posters. Try to think of something more meaningful to say than art is fun or cool (it is both of those things, but we have A LOT of that on the posters...think of something more original to say). It is not to just write your name on...you must SAY something. No inappropriate drawings. The students have completely filled the papers up and I will be replacing them with fresh papers in the new year. It has touched me, made me smile and laugh and made me realize the impact that art and my class have made on my students. Writing and fine arts go hand in hand...they are the best ways to express ourselves. What words can't say the fine arts can...but, words are powerful. (I have typed out what my students wrote below each picture to make it easier to read, some with their misspellings, some corrected if I thought you just wouldn't be able to tell what it said. :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNWcMNBOvNUyv0ZPGcr6-LHxLbbHx0NMwYbvB7p2o09CxjT0GLyIVptLmo3m8DRe5eq4FGPcoNQwNZTyraEHE88UTM4NCeGC_v2fY4ZvA6GbEJdJLC-5-io_NQYoNnqisKEb0kDp36iQQ/s1600/IMG_1154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNWcMNBOvNUyv0ZPGcr6-LHxLbbHx0NMwYbvB7p2o09CxjT0GLyIVptLmo3m8DRe5eq4FGPcoNQwNZTyraEHE88UTM4NCeGC_v2fY4ZvA6GbEJdJLC-5-io_NQYoNnqisKEb0kDp36iQQ/s320/IMG_1154.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art is My Life, My Soul, My Generation. Art is Me!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In art I learned that you still can be smart if you mess up.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rZ4OovlwH22uLUpW0WyGSjjN1564AeRSE-j9kyviZvDP0FOyVrdJBjnKy4lLesrS8SFrwhNmnw2sS_baRWmyY4vkYLSxSQgMkmYCuBShsRoPOt0IJermgoMwrCv12XLa5dpOGC0Dl8YI/s1600/IMG_1155.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rZ4OovlwH22uLUpW0WyGSjjN1564AeRSE-j9kyviZvDP0FOyVrdJBjnKy4lLesrS8SFrwhNmnw2sS_baRWmyY4vkYLSxSQgMkmYCuBShsRoPOt0IJermgoMwrCv12XLa5dpOGC0Dl8YI/s320/IMG_1155.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Art) helps me learn new things.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJo2jjcfp9rRXJ8tgy2DDVYf8SJ57C-LvyhilY241Iq3gU1hB3Ei-MWwaNQhNtx1J-uTyuUYOTwQjQOQLWe-VtQATWTRHlIZcTtsfBgw9EgglTBOLWA-y_PGaOmckfmTf376OdCzGmxeS2/s1600/IMG_1148.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJo2jjcfp9rRXJ8tgy2DDVYf8SJ57C-LvyhilY241Iq3gU1hB3Ei-MWwaNQhNtx1J-uTyuUYOTwQjQOQLWe-VtQATWTRHlIZcTtsfBgw9EgglTBOLWA-y_PGaOmckfmTf376OdCzGmxeS2/s320/IMG_1148.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That art is for you to express yourself.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0AWGsl9V06dBeKCCQGldV3xCBXTYJbubK4JywexAYEqeFGgnyXLeeHiQh2Yt9q_0bN6uHWiRS-kHb24UxLmbMZCwqUGbsVtGADV1hcVDgG_Uk1lpKpyW5qWd1L8-u3xAORznTY1hm7Bm/s1600/IMG_1150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0AWGsl9V06dBeKCCQGldV3xCBXTYJbubK4JywexAYEqeFGgnyXLeeHiQh2Yt9q_0bN6uHWiRS-kHb24UxLmbMZCwqUGbsVtGADV1hcVDgG_Uk1lpKpyW5qWd1L8-u3xAORznTY1hm7Bm/s320/IMG_1150.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Today in Art I Learned) how to draw a blue dog.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWp90B0dhsTCwoELd0jMyt5iuIqRUo9hlEsJcbONoi5RJgxxKdsQuTUNuTaS942ZGMAMn2CYZQdimXUebI4cFX10kM7GdMMfu5KLnQBonJ78zDbJNYiBdw43VllWNy7onpj6640Tc4x-II/s1600/IMG_1151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWp90B0dhsTCwoELd0jMyt5iuIqRUo9hlEsJcbONoi5RJgxxKdsQuTUNuTaS942ZGMAMn2CYZQdimXUebI4cFX10kM7GdMMfu5KLnQBonJ78zDbJNYiBdw43VllWNy7onpj6640Tc4x-II/s320/IMG_1151.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Today in Art I Learned) how to make a fish. How to do step by step.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibG101Ql5azgwSbdD1fvaD9sGHj4R91Yk4Eu9310ccKUchFADqaja0qq05gBrLbhxdMHiIWEA_-SThPRH9ThAlbuDbtF4WCREifr6nE4SYcqruAslTCrWWkRjo1fFo71ij8261SitmcQI3/s1600/IMG_1152.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibG101Ql5azgwSbdD1fvaD9sGHj4R91Yk4Eu9310ccKUchFADqaja0qq05gBrLbhxdMHiIWEA_-SThPRH9ThAlbuDbtF4WCREifr6nE4SYcqruAslTCrWWkRjo1fFo71ij8261SitmcQI3/s320/IMG_1152.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Today in Art I Learned) I love art and myself.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIm6tVNm3nM9uckvhvfPB_TVRQWPaMWqm0BbCNLgvv7Z4-_wKRKIYEO9Pf7WExEK1AWlUT0JYb8YqHNffO2Sn0ZDsazfz-wr0oS7l_rcUxKz2EXatTXd46B9SXTmxHlIJwmA4p38fbUzjy/s1600/IMG_1172.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIm6tVNm3nM9uckvhvfPB_TVRQWPaMWqm0BbCNLgvv7Z4-_wKRKIYEO9Pf7WExEK1AWlUT0JYb8YqHNffO2Sn0ZDsazfz-wr0oS7l_rcUxKz2EXatTXd46B9SXTmxHlIJwmA4p38fbUzjy/s320/IMG_1172.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art is a way to have fun.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroKPmRvYrOiicqEe1UUtUql2VzU1rvOK3pD7p85QxnnBdMycD9xBZESO-Rq8OgZZiYjcDePjqjXeaukRKYIWg3uIn7ENh7sDMQnQGNmscU2iA5ucBu5N8qMrOB4qrB1_mtThKy-qjkoJ5/s1600/IMG_1173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroKPmRvYrOiicqEe1UUtUql2VzU1rvOK3pD7p85QxnnBdMycD9xBZESO-Rq8OgZZiYjcDePjqjXeaukRKYIWg3uIn7ENh7sDMQnQGNmscU2iA5ucBu5N8qMrOB4qrB1_mtThKy-qjkoJ5/s320/IMG_1173.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today I learned how to draw a bird.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9c1GFj8cYZ_o9SZhP9G3_QuZb4aeMUSJJwNRuL2irYrobXttfuAq39sMBf2IHwbtvsmE5cfbWFKWFQlFKfsPcz0DIQUM_eua3m1bSWEmgQfhPCGpGOWIT8jkwSPJ-caVImbCvQCODNfRc/s1600/IMG_1135.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9c1GFj8cYZ_o9SZhP9G3_QuZb4aeMUSJJwNRuL2irYrobXttfuAq39sMBf2IHwbtvsmE5cfbWFKWFQlFKfsPcz0DIQUM_eua3m1bSWEmgQfhPCGpGOWIT8jkwSPJ-caVImbCvQCODNfRc/s320/IMG_1135.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art come from the heart.</div><br />
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</a>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-13400654964287609132011-11-22T15:56:00.000-08:002011-11-23T05:28:10.256-08:00Homemade Crayons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj91qR7zoHrIH_klAP8sGQp4nIDYdJT8iIrbiUa92V5EsLMhdopxxooxkdlXMGLaOHTsPz13bBVR7dLqfWGYS9lDp9UgZoPiPmRIREjGA2INSfHbc7Zw5Iqv8BhhOCsJxRZpwSLUmYYhDwm/s1600/100_2649.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj91qR7zoHrIH_klAP8sGQp4nIDYdJT8iIrbiUa92V5EsLMhdopxxooxkdlXMGLaOHTsPz13bBVR7dLqfWGYS9lDp9UgZoPiPmRIREjGA2INSfHbc7Zw5Iqv8BhhOCsJxRZpwSLUmYYhDwm/s320/100_2649.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you're like me, there's about a hundred million broken crayons in all types of containers here and there around your art room or your house. You can't bear to throw them out, because you think one day you'll get around to making something with them. Well, today's the day! Here is everything you ever wanted to know about making crayons, but were afraid to ask;</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">* I would like to thank my fellow art teachers in Humble I.S.D. for sharing this *recipe* with me. </div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-10298801531961880762011-10-30T09:12:00.000-07:002011-10-30T09:12:24.688-07:00Variations on a Theme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgip-6a8Ds0158VQ12AqzAZZlaoOyDy2pN4CQBJ9uyK-kR2wbtbzTjNYan1mvkb4rcpZBe-84zgdz_gdpJq6e1-U-4aWkfO59Q4zKyjP0SjPKfj-4aWHPOzdgllT2DxfSSN711oPUcOKpOs/s1600/IMG_1019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgip-6a8Ds0158VQ12AqzAZZlaoOyDy2pN4CQBJ9uyK-kR2wbtbzTjNYan1mvkb4rcpZBe-84zgdz_gdpJq6e1-U-4aWkfO59Q4zKyjP0SjPKfj-4aWHPOzdgllT2DxfSSN711oPUcOKpOs/s320/IMG_1019.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Pumpkins, Squash and Gourds! When Fall arrived here in Texas, the only way we knew it was from the displays in the stores. The trees did not turn, and it is only now getting cool out. With the long drought we have had to suffer through and the 100+ days of 100+ temperatures, I was ready to usher in Fall! By far my favorite season for the colors, the smells, the tastes, the temperature and the clothing! It was time to bring Fall into the art room. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I purchased a large pumpkin and a bag of smaller squash and gourds. A teacher friend, Judi, donated a bag of small pumpkins. The students were amazed at the sight of the huge pumpkin and the tiny ones, the unusual textures of the squash and gourds. I passed them around the room for the students to feel and describe before they would draw them. Then I set them all up on a rolling cart in a still life with a beautiful complementary blue cloth below them. We discussed the shapes, sizes lines and textures in the still life. Proportion, overlapping and perspective were also discussed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> K, 1st, 2nd and 5th grades all drew still lifes in different medias using different elements and principles of art. Above I've shown three examples; a 5th grade value drawing, a 2nd grade oil pastel drawing and a 1st grade painted paper collage. The painted paper collage idea I got from the wonderful Deep Space Sparkle sight. This project was a big hit with beautiful results! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> If you have any questions about how we went about these lessons, please message me and I'll be happy to share in more detail. Happy Fall Y'all!!! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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We started by making a background for our hands using Mr. Sketch watercolor markers on a 12" x 18" piece of white sulphite drawing paper. I separated containers of them by color schemes, and the students had to choose if they were a "cool" or "warm" color scheme person. Most students chose cool colors. As you can see by the last example, the students drew "bursts" of radiating colors in concentric lines all over their paper. Then they painted over their paper with clear water making sure to go off the edges of the paper. The effects were amazing! Most papers lost the initial drawing of the lines as the water worked it's magic, blending and gradating the color. The students then traced their hands on a 9" x 12" piece of black paper. I instructed them to make a small cut from the edge of the paper to the tip of their thumb to "get into" their hand and then cut around the contour line. This was just meant to reduce frustration for them. When the papers were glued down to the background, the cut becomes practically invisible. They used their same color scheme to color in their hands and frame of hand with Prismacolor pencils. I told them they could write (appropriate) words if they would like, patterns and designs and to, most importantly, express themselves! I am giving them a huge virtual clap of my hands for a job well done!Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-15986774262064045732011-09-17T07:34:00.000-07:002011-09-17T07:34:43.007-07:00A New Year, A New Room!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjok295yrbz-zyF56KA23kOU8EDunsEZS7qcOWfOMPzuGsQdjs7wez7xwEQMYwKgUiGHNT3EHZ-2s3lFIUNoYcX9Dllr0SdreANa5GgGQcLMgozQruAJo87zJun1VX-Ju9L1Tvv7St0JowM/s1600/IMG_0916.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjok295yrbz-zyF56KA23kOU8EDunsEZS7qcOWfOMPzuGsQdjs7wez7xwEQMYwKgUiGHNT3EHZ-2s3lFIUNoYcX9Dllr0SdreANa5GgGQcLMgozQruAJo87zJun1VX-Ju9L1Tvv7St0JowM/s320/IMG_0916.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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I will have tons of new posts this year and I am so excited to share with you what I'm doing with my students!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> This room (pictured above) has come to us at long last. For the past few years I have taught art on a cart at this school. With budget cuts in our district, we lost our pre-k 3 program, so it opened up some classrooms. Fortunately, one of them was a multi-purpose room with a sink! And a range and a refrigerator! An art teachers dream! Since I teach at two schools, the same happened at my other school, and they asked me to move inside the building from my portable classroom. I spent the month of August making both moves. At the end of the first week, I found out that I would possibly have to move this classroom (pictured) down the hall to make room for a new bilingual kindergarten teacher, due to over enrollment in the bilingual kindergarten program and the space I am in is in the kinder section of the school. The following week, I found out I would have to move my classroom at the other school back out to the portable, due again to unforeseen over enrollment. After spending a day feeling completely overwhelmed at the prospect, the principal at this school told me I would not have to move this classroom after all!!! Whooohooo! Turns out we were under enrolled in English kindergarten classes and one of our teachers that had a small class would be going to another school and they would be combining classes and the new bilingual kinder teacher would go in her old room. I was sooo relieved, but of course, sorry for the teachers having to switch schools, these changes are hard sometimes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I still needed to move my room back out to the portable at my other school, and completed that last week in one day (don't ask me how, but my husband was AMAZING!!!). I still need to organize it and decorate it, but it is moved, and that's all that matters right now. I'm just so glad it was only one room that was moved!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> As you can see by my pictures, this year my theme is "smART" class. This has been the best classroom management/learning tool I have used so far. It started with a seed idea to go with this "smART" theme and use it to define my classroom rules and as a reference to everything we do in art that makes us smarter; higher level thinking skills, problem solving, creativity and recycling. I shared this idea with my facilitator who also thought it was a good idea, and from there we collaborated on how to implement it in our classrooms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> You will notice my smART theme is everywhere, from the sign on my door, to the display outside my classroom, to the rules on my board, to the Welcome sign in chalk that my daughter Sarah made for me. When I welcomed my students to smART class for the first time, I explained to them what that meant; that everything we do in art WILL make us smarter, but only if we are making smart choices. If we are not, we will not learn everything there is to learn this year in art and we will be making it more difficult for others to learn. So, to be smart, we will...and I went over my rules (which you can see pictured above). If they followed the rules during class (which everyone is EXPECTED to do), and maybe they went above and beyond by participating in class-answering questions, or asking questions, being observant, being helpful to a friend or encouraging, or helping to clean up extra well, then they may get chosen as one of my "smARTest Artists" for the day. I choose two from every class and those students receive a bracelet that says, "I am a smART Artist!" on it. I made the bracelets by first creating a paper with 1" sections divided by lines across the width of the paper and writing my phrase in each section. Then I copied this on to colorful cardstock and laminated them. Then I cut the strips to make the bracelets and I tape them onto the students wrists. When I choose the two students in each class that have EARNED the bracelet for that day, I tell them exactly how they were being a smART artist and why they earned it. The pride that they feel is so awesome to see. If they receive a bracelet, they also get a slip of paper to put in their grade level container for a chance to win an art supply to take home. I choose one student per grade level for each week I am there (for a total of 18 winners in each grade for the year). I will never give the same students a smART artist bracelet twice, unless we have gone through all the students in the class and still have art classes left. I tell them I want to give everyone a chance to show me what a smART artist they are. Once their ticket goes in the container, it stays in there all year long (unless it is pulled), so they will get several chances for their ticket to be pulled. The supplies I give away are ones that I received from the pre-k 3 teachers that cleaned out their classrooms when they left, other teachers donations at the end of last school year, free supplies I received from vendors, and homemade crayons (made by melting broken crayons in silicone brownie bite tray in oven). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The students LOVE the new art room, I have a huge increased participation in class, and they all want to earn these smART artist bracelets. If I have to warn them about their behavior, I ask them to think about if they're making a smart choice. I would NEVER tell them "you are not being smart". That language is destructive to their self esteem. I am very careful to show them I believe in them and I KNOW they are smart. I want THEM to decide for themselves if their behavior is smart or not. I remind them I have a lot to teach them and I need them to make the smart choices I know they are capable of making. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I look forward to sharing smART stories with you this year, and hope to hear from you! Please leave a comment for me if you have any questions or suggestions! We can all be smARTer teachers by sharing and blogging!</div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-18369947911030029592011-05-21T15:17:00.000-07:002011-05-21T16:30:21.504-07:003rd Grade Flowers in Vases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5HW-bZXgnTYex_aE2qnmAl8DuUtIeMR5t4lBgfR5DHSL5S0LkOVLGGR2Kz79znasCXHsgGJqpqONfMe2TApa8odBpVIqztxui2Z5c1VescxHPSdra_qocsYrSMKGNAE-G_ylgJnxvtZSp/s1600/IMG_0338.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5HW-bZXgnTYex_aE2qnmAl8DuUtIeMR5t4lBgfR5DHSL5S0LkOVLGGR2Kz79znasCXHsgGJqpqONfMe2TApa8odBpVIqztxui2Z5c1VescxHPSdra_qocsYrSMKGNAE-G_ylgJnxvtZSp/s320/IMG_0338.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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After they have completed their pencil drawing, it is time to color in their work with oil pastels. I demonstrate how they can rub the oil pastels on their sides for coloring in large areas, and how to use the tip for smaller, detailed areas. I show them how to blend colors together and how to add dimension to their flowers and vases. The students really enjoy using the oil pastels, even though they can be so messy. I always tell them to not rest their hands on their work, or wipe over their work with their hands, because the pastels will smear easily and make prints on their paper where they don't want them. They can use paper towels to rest their hands on while coloring if they like. Each picture is so uniquely the students' own vision and creative interpretation. Choices are so important when teaching students art. The more the better! This builds confidence, self-esteem, and pride in one's own work. It is wonderful, too, when students can compliment one another on how they did something different and what a good choice they made. How affirming is that?! When our peers can lift us up for making a unique choice and not going along with the crowd? These are the real lessons we are learning in art.Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-10873246601026665842011-05-16T16:48:00.000-07:002011-05-18T18:38:05.145-07:001st Grade Bird Sculptures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZATzbixVrIQhGOD6OnCDRI2hsF_2uveEDfBYyULDKOJmIk_z9E9hH75Aosdbn1pz59XGlqdvNqbNGCzI0mCcIdtS11a87KKtB3tgKq7qd6m3ejS7nXohVARH61M8V1lrj1al-kINPlTu/s1600/IMG_0404.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZATzbixVrIQhGOD6OnCDRI2hsF_2uveEDfBYyULDKOJmIk_z9E9hH75Aosdbn1pz59XGlqdvNqbNGCzI0mCcIdtS11a87KKtB3tgKq7qd6m3ejS7nXohVARH61M8V1lrj1al-kINPlTu/s320/IMG_0404.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-BCdseiDFuxNJ9xoc8VYdaLHNTMBmoYX81xYuyPiIuJYySfAnXIOd7FvL9x4Q9VpdxmdPvkrR4QkPEa9bxw5GFawj2b1RSl_wWk0OKKM6fKIo_HyDHMdyRmlYFU-Nsl4ZxMquvqXgQ_1o/s1600/100_2310.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-BCdseiDFuxNJ9xoc8VYdaLHNTMBmoYX81xYuyPiIuJYySfAnXIOd7FvL9x4Q9VpdxmdPvkrR4QkPEa9bxw5GFawj2b1RSl_wWk0OKKM6fKIo_HyDHMdyRmlYFU-Nsl4ZxMquvqXgQ_1o/s320/100_2310.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Students love making paper sculptures! They thoroughly enjoy cutting, folding, bending, twisting, tearing and gluing paper. Paper sculptures are one of my favorite projects to do with my younger students. It is not intimidating to work with paper, like say, it is to try and draw a person or an animal. You can't make any mistakes here, really. It is just freeform imagination at its best! Plus, you get to put to use all of those scraps of paper you've been saving all year long. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> There are so many different ways to make a paper sculpture, this is only one. It is abstract and fun! First, I begin with showing students a Power Point on Sculpture. This familiarizes them with the terms and concepts involved in making 3D art. Then, we make a base for our sculpture by folding a 12" x 18" piece of paper into 4 th's, that the students have colored lines, shapes and designs on with crayons. Glue the two ends of the paper together as they overlap, to make a tall, triangular base for your sculpture. You can cut out notches in the sides to invert for an interesting design on the edges. Last, show the students all the different ways they can manipulate the paper by folding and cutting and tearing and twisting. Students can glue each piece onto their base in any way they want. The results are so much fun and it is an hour well spent in the life of a child! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-3480678821850298082011-04-23T11:22:00.000-07:002011-04-25T17:48:02.316-07:00Versatile Blogger Award<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="VersatileBloggerAward.png" src="webkit-fake-url://C255E5C8-EBD0-429E-840F-454FFF565791/VersatileBloggerAward.png" /></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">A great big THANKS to Mary at <span id="goog_1704964515"></span><a href="http://marymaking.blogspot.com/">MaryMaking<span id="goog_1704964516"></span> </a>for giving me the Versatile Blogger Award! It feels good to know that other bloggers you admire also admire what you're doing! I love Mary's creative approach to art projects and her enthusiasm for what she does. One of my favorite posts of hers is from February, "Indian Elephants". They are so beautiful, and I can't wait to do this project with my own students. What a blessing it is to have this community of art teachers to inspire and encourage one another in the best job on earth...making art with children!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here are 7 interesting facts about me: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">1) I was in the Army for 1 month when I was 18. I contracted Hepatitis and came home. I spent 2 weeks in the hospital, 3 months on bed rest and when I got better, traveled to Louisiana to visit a friend. That is where I met my future husband. I was not meant to be in the Army. :)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2) I graduated from college at the age of 42.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">3) When I was a senior in high school, my Scholastic Portfolio placed in the top 10% in the nation.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">4) I have worked in a grocery store bakery, a hardware store (one of my most favorite jobs), as a room service operator at a major hotel in our area, in clothing and accessories retail stores for many years, and as a faux finisher and freelance artist for 16 years.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">5) My favorite movies are Sense and Sensibility, anything English or Jane Austen, and on the lighter side...Elf. I LOVE Will Ferrel! My favorite documentary is "Between the Folds", about the art of origami, it is a MUST see!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">6) God and family are of utmost importance to me. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">7) I love to cook (when I can) and watch the Food Network...especially the show "Chopped". What a brilliant show, I can't get enough of it! My family and I like to do our own Chopped competitions. We pull crazy ingredients out of the pantry and fridge for one another, or buy them at the store, and we have to make something out of what we're given. Then we score each other on taste, plating and creativity. It is so much fun!!! And my kids (12 year old daughter, 18 year old son) totally blow my mind with how creative they are!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Pass the award on to 10 recently discovered bloggers:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">1) <a href="http://keripye.blogspot.com/">Texas Art Teacher</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">2) <a href="http://bluemoonpalette.blogspot.com/">Blue Moon Palette</a><br />
3) <a href="http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/">Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">4) <a href="http://artwithmre.blogspot.com/">Art with Mr. E</a><br />
5) <a href="http://myadventuresinpositivespace.com/">My Adventures in Positive Space</a><br />
6) <a href="http://thislittleclassofmine.blogspot.com/">This Little Class of Mine</a><br />
7) <a href="http://theartofeducation.wordpress.com/">The Art of Education</a><br />
8) <a href="http://art-teacher-blog.blogspot.com/">Art Teacher Blog</a><br />
9) <a href="http://useyourcolouredpencils.blogspot.com/">Use Your Coloured Pencils</a><br />
10) <a href="http://megankimball.blogspot.com/">Studio 220</a><br />
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</div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-31341890238969901172011-04-19T15:41:00.000-07:002011-04-21T16:43:17.073-07:00First Grade Starry Nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yjoFTSQrjIByiWRHYhtDPPSESIC5NgVmuo05OgxpW4Hr1d7ZxM0c0NdcnXq2kvWiLj4yC2B2EG7QEiJWwj_EQOafq9QHQIoP1a-Tx_sDSq26jhOTgKa5AQlbEfA5WXkP32RvSjkuqTG8/s1600/IMG_0132.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yjoFTSQrjIByiWRHYhtDPPSESIC5NgVmuo05OgxpW4Hr1d7ZxM0c0NdcnXq2kvWiLj4yC2B2EG7QEiJWwj_EQOafq9QHQIoP1a-Tx_sDSq26jhOTgKa5AQlbEfA5WXkP32RvSjkuqTG8/s320/IMG_0132.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPi9NrEzX4dIcE5-7FhRsmtdUsbbEK9pArVc2F-SWZ54T5OUSf9nPkv9BC5phdpXvBqE9ZGEeMs4mAmT0PcZ61dBdjkCZxbcAMoJZs6CriguMI_XeoV92uwvbHWYpgH5d3gEg_43__OnDZ/s1600/IMG_0134.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPi9NrEzX4dIcE5-7FhRsmtdUsbbEK9pArVc2F-SWZ54T5OUSf9nPkv9BC5phdpXvBqE9ZGEeMs4mAmT0PcZ61dBdjkCZxbcAMoJZs6CriguMI_XeoV92uwvbHWYpgH5d3gEg_43__OnDZ/s320/IMG_0134.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Well, first let me start off by admitting something about this project...it did not start off as a Starry Night lesson. Originally, it was going to be a Snowy Mountain Cool Collage. We created them before the holidays, when it was cold, then I went away for 9 weeks to the other school I teach at and we had to put it on hold. When I returned, it wasn't cold anymore, so it felt a little funny making snow pictures. But, true to my plan, I had a first grade class sponge snow over their cool mountain collages. I was definitely non-plussed with the results! I felt that the collages were so nice, but yet still needed something to complete them and decided to hold onto them until I figured it out. Meanwhile, we went on to a new project. When that project was finished, I was looking in an art book at Van Gogh's Starry Night, and had a light bulb moment- we'll use oil pastels on top of our landscapes to create our own Starry Nights! I really love the results. First graders enjoyed making the swirly broken lines just like Van Gogh, and added their own ideas... the results are beautiful-just like them! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie2I84O2QmuHag53h6riRtOlM7tH1ODPXFEL3CJCAWXr2X9-hWJF6dPFk9biGWwbbS2442-JHiifRY2Ik-7hyrpRVz4j1_yKQaqWMzyjt6O1Z_4S6ltJoHa9GizH48w806YxOa_dPjsKmu/s1600/IMG_0152.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie2I84O2QmuHag53h6riRtOlM7tH1ODPXFEL3CJCAWXr2X9-hWJF6dPFk9biGWwbbS2442-JHiifRY2Ik-7hyrpRVz4j1_yKQaqWMzyjt6O1Z_4S6ltJoHa9GizH48w806YxOa_dPjsKmu/s320/IMG_0152.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-70292766381302986652011-04-15T18:04:00.000-07:002011-04-21T16:54:28.858-07:00Oil Pastel Dogs Inspired by George Rodrigue's "Blue Dog" Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvxh86tHXwHua-Gr_rqV8p0IswJhTEZnSoJSh-BvWOlKgLs2pzGVUe4a-TukJly7UwFuIXcNX_drNZvMPhPRjQpBq_tt8JAVDZ_A5T5hk9vKsx8TSu-N-l-Q0PFeFTcQfpT8VupfSFZ6m/s1600/IMG_0125.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvxh86tHXwHua-Gr_rqV8p0IswJhTEZnSoJSh-BvWOlKgLs2pzGVUe4a-TukJly7UwFuIXcNX_drNZvMPhPRjQpBq_tt8JAVDZ_A5T5hk9vKsx8TSu-N-l-Q0PFeFTcQfpT8VupfSFZ6m/s320/IMG_0125.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> This is probably my favorite elementary art project to date...for sure my favorite 1st grade project! Ocean scenes are a great theme in elementary art, incorporating science into the art curriculum. I also tied math into this project, by reading a great book by Lois Elhart- "Fish Eyes", a counting book. Lois' books are beautiful in their vivid simplicity, her artwork uses bold color and simple shapes combined for eye popping visuals. The students loved the book, and as we read I pointed out the bright, beautiful fish they could get ideas from. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The first step in this multi-step project, was to create the ocean water. Using a 12" x 18" sheet of white sulphite drawing paper, green, white and blue tempera paint and a 1" brush, the students created their ocean water by blending the paint on the paper. I gave them their paint in one small metal pan...3 blobs of each color paint- they shared a pan to a group table. I demonstrated for them how to pick up 2 or 3 colors with their brush at a time and then blend them together by brushing them out on the paper. I emphasized they should not stir the paint in the pan, making it into one color- the beauty of the water was in all the tints of blue and green they could make on their paper. They were to start at the top, painting from side to side, back and forth all the way down the paper- never painting in another direction. Once they were done with the water, we set the painting aside to dry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Next came the recycled portion of this project. Laminating scraps that I had been collecting in the workroom for some time were my inspiration for the fish. I have been experimenting with many different recyclable materials this year, and laminating scraps were one of the most challenging. (By the way, if you have any ideas or suggestions for using them, please message me, I would love to have your input!). I tried to warp them by applying heat from the oven, the microwave, a hairdryer, a heat gun- they are not to be warped! If only! Dale Chihuly projects were my first thought, and still are not out of the question, but they would have been easier to accomplish had I been able to warp the material. I have other project uses for these that I will be sharing in future blogs, but I digress...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Paint will not stick- at least not water based- I do not use acrylic with my elementary students, though I could with the older grades, and that could probably work. I wanted to be able to color the plastic, so I kept at it. I found that permanent markers work beautifully, and I had some with wide tips. They colored large areas more quickly than a fine tip marker, of course. So, I made some drawings on the clear plastic scraps and one was a fish...my project was born!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Once the fish were drawn on the plastic, the students cut them out and we glued them on their ocean scene. For some fun detail, we used glitter glue on top of the plastic- sometimes this can fall off when it dries, but I had very few incidents. Overall, the glitter glue adhered nicely and was a beautiful touch. The project was going to end there, except for a few white oil pastel bubbles in the water, until a student grabbed a colored oil pastel and without my knowing began drawing some sea plants in the water. When I saw what they were doing I got so excited! Oil pastels are beautiful on top of tempera paintings...why hadn't I thought of extending the lesson with that? My students ALWAYS come up with better ideas and surprise me with their creativity! So, out went all the trays of oil pastels and the bottom of the ocean came alive! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> These projects are so impressive and gorgeous! The students had a blast creating them and were proud to turn trash into treasure! I told them that I am a proud dumpster diver...especially when it means that we turn something discarded into a thing of beauty. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpT34ldg0W6fF7M3Zy8KESY5nKiwKX51liUw6QlUC3bwPn2dGuJE98Ke5c68I-0KQCDtdzgCQXq9CXDuL22VOVoWmBSFm9wdvlYjNhbAX3GXLT-Q9kTxqSJzWiwsJ3_5PKP2ZgqDYjKUOR/s1600/IMG_0109.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpT34ldg0W6fF7M3Zy8KESY5nKiwKX51liUw6QlUC3bwPn2dGuJE98Ke5c68I-0KQCDtdzgCQXq9CXDuL22VOVoWmBSFm9wdvlYjNhbAX3GXLT-Q9kTxqSJzWiwsJ3_5PKP2ZgqDYjKUOR/s320/IMG_0109.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are:</div><ul class="spacing"><li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem</li>
</ul><div style="line-height: 1.5em;">Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:</div><ul class="spacing"><li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Attend music, art, and dance classes nearly three times as frequently</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Read for pleasure nearly twice as often</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Perform community service more than four times as often<br />
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("Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations," Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts<em>Monograph</em>, November 1998)</li>
</ul><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>The facts are that arts education...</strong></div><ul class="spacing"><li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">makes a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has been proven to help level the "learning field" across socio-economic boundaries<br />
(<i>Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School</i>, James S. Catterall, The UCLA Imagination Project, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA, Americans for the Arts <i>Monograph</i>, January 1998)</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">has a measurable impact on at-risk youth in deterring delinquent behavior and truancy problems while also increasing overall academic performance among those youth engaged in afterschool and summer arts programs targeted toward delinquency prevention<br />
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(YouthARTS Development Project, 1996, U.S. Department of Justice, National Endowment for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts)</li>
</ul><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>Businesses understand that arts education...</strong></div><ul class="spacing"><li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">builds a school climate of high expectation, discipline, and academic rigor that attracts businesses relocating to your community</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">strengthens student problem-solving and critical thinking skills, adding to overall academic achievement and school success</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">helps students develop a sense of craftsmanship, quality task performance, and goal-setting—skills needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">can help troubled youth, providing an alternative to destructive behavior and another way for students to approach learning</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">provides another opportunity for parental, community, and business involvement with schools, including arts and humanities organizations</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">helps all students develop more appreciation and understanding of the world around them</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">helps students develop a positive work ethic and pride in a job well done<br />
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(Business Circle for Arts Education in Oklahoma, "Arts at the Core of Learning 1999 Initiative")</li>
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Last, I showed them a photo taken of three buildings with different styles of architecture in Houston; the photo was of one building in front of the other, the shortest one in front, then the medium sized one in the middle and the tallest at the back. It showed how the buildings overlap one another. It also showed three distinct styles of architecture in our citys' history; one from the 1970's, one from the 1980's and one from the 1990's. <br />
Before teaching this project, I tore the cardboard layer off of sheets of cardboard scraps to reveal the corrugation. I cut them into various sizes of rectangles. I cut newspaper clippings into various sizes of rectangles, as well, being careful to weed out any inappropriate ads or pictures or text. I also cut black, gray, and brown papers for buildings. Included in our supplies were; glue, black sharpie markers, white prismacolor pencils, and scissors. <br />
I handed the students a brown piece of paper as their background, a gray piece of paper to tear for their road, and piled a variety of materials for their buildings in the center of their tables. They were free to choose the papers in the sizes and colors they wanted. I instructed the students to make interesting rooflines, overlap buildings, fill their papers up with them and most of all, make sure there was a lot of variety in their building sizes and rooflines. I demonstrated different ways they could cut or add to their papers to create them, and told them not to be concerned with the finer details of their buildings in the beginning, that would come last. Right now they were "building" their citys.<br />
Once the students had glued the buildings to their papers, it was time to add those details; windows, street scenes, billboards and signs, newspaper clouds in the sky, were some of the suggestions. As usual, they totally blew me away with their creativity and imaginations! This project allowed them the freedom to express their own ideas of the city and what they know and feel about it. The wheels were spinning in their heads as they were deciding on what papers to use, what buildings they could have in their artwork, how they were going to make all the windows on their skyscrapers and what types of details they wanted to add. I reminded them about the scale in their project; making sure they didn't make their doors or windows too large, or a sign or a person the size of a skyscraper, that they would be tiny in comparison. <br />
They all loved working on this project. Not a student in the class didn't know what they wanted to do. It was great to witness them so engaged and working with their hands and their minds to problem solve and make choices and decisions. They also found it interesting to work with the cardboard and the newspaper, commenting they didn't know they could make art with those materials. The recyclable aspect of the project was appealing to everyone.<br />
This project took about three art classes to complete. When they were done, we had cityscapes galore and an entire school ooohing and ahhhhing over them. They were amazed at how creative the students were and how beautiful their art was. Since the project was such a hit, I decided to expand on this architecture theme in art and have them create 3D buildings using paper folded into right angles to make the structures of the buildings... more on this project to come. We had to put it on hold, since I teach 9 weeks at a time at each of my two campuses. It was time for me to go to my other campus, so we put away our buildings until I return... that's life in the big city!Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190651458241591970.post-81299837490949438382011-02-06T14:24:00.000-08:002011-02-13T10:24:34.311-08:00Bodies in Motion!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_lQ57kpsj-C00dKrSqS95M_KDuFReOWKELPELqdeo30rtC0rKbgqCUG0DCm3tQTAWOzgE099zHEDik0DRp7Rrm5XivUbmcQ55ZcRhy973nmrAZ-F8r4WSW2-cZMDUz6cCbqZzGkPlXwH/s1600/100_2262.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_lQ57kpsj-C00dKrSqS95M_KDuFReOWKELPELqdeo30rtC0rKbgqCUG0DCm3tQTAWOzgE099zHEDik0DRp7Rrm5XivUbmcQ55ZcRhy973nmrAZ-F8r4WSW2-cZMDUz6cCbqZzGkPlXwH/s320/100_2262.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> While the original idea for this project (Torn Paper Zebras) was found on the wonderful Deep Space Sparkle Website, I decided that since I have (6) 2nd grade classes, that would be waaayyy too many zebras hanging around this art room! So, I decided to make this a unit on wild animals, making a Power Point Presentation for each class on a different wild animal to introduce our animal and our art project. So far, we've learned about zebras, lions, tigers (2 classes made tigers) and owls. Still to come are giraffes. 2nd grade students love to learn and talk about wild animals... really, who doesn't? They're endlessly fascinating. We not only learned about the animals and their habitats, but also about different types of animal art, how the animals are the subjects of sculptures, paintings, drawings, graphic design, and more. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> First, the outline of our animals was drawn using an oil pastel, then we tore and pasted stripes, manes and feathers on. Next, the students cut their animals out and glued them to another sheet of paper that would become their animals habitat. Students got creative, making rainbows, suns, clouds (even rain clouds with raindrops falling from them!), grass, water, rocks, trees, flowers, moons and stars. They really enjoyed this project from start to finish and so did I... we learned a little about our animals and a lot about how to take what we learned and create a wonderful work of art from it!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Once their paintings were complete, I showed them how to create a simple, abstract line drawing on a 6" square piece of paper. Their only instructions were to use their space in an interesting way (i.e.; not leaving one side of the square blank and not making too small of shapes), and to not draw too much detail, as this would be difficult for them to cover exactly with yarn. After they made drawings that were satisfactory to them, they transferred them onto a 6" square piece of foam core. Using glue to trace over the lines and yarn to lay down on top of their glue, they created their string printing plate cards.<br />
During the next art class, after their papers and plates had plenty of time to dry, the students were ready to create their prints. The idea was to make multiple prints on their 9" x 12" paper. They chose either white or black ink to make their print with, rolled onto their plate with their brayers, then placed them first in the corner of their papers, rubbed them well, and made their first print. The following prints just lined up on the paper one right after the other until the entire surface was covered.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"> The students enjoyed the printmaking process very much and have asked me when they can make more prints. Ahhh, there are always too many things to create and too little time!</div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332641827381663369noreply@blogger.com0