Oops!

Oops! So- i totally forgot to say....

I went to meet my new cooperating teacher yesterday. I will be in a rural school, in a middle and high school art room. I observed three class yesterday and man was it different.

I am really not sure how she teaches because the students were working on several projects at once! Some were starting, some were ending, and some where doing nothing!

i asked if they have to teach art history and she said no, which i was surprised about. Then she said she actually had an art textbook! i was shocked! but she then said she doesnt use it. She said the principal is really into curriculum mapping, and that she has not yet been put into the schedule! So she doesnt have a curriculum, and I was very shocked and almost disappointed in this!

Well, hopefully when i am there for a while, i will see things different than i do now, cause im a little on the nervous side!!!!

Best Day Ever!

Hello All!

Can I just tell you that Wednesday of this week was the best day ever! I was observed for the second time in my placement, and I recieved a perfect 5! Yea for me!

The lesson i was teaching was a fourth grade lesson, on pop art. The students are asked to draw themselves from a mirror making a silly face, and then tracing over it with marker. Then, just like pop art, they are to make copies of them by tracing it! So they will have four good tracings. After the repitition part is over we will discuss complimentary colors and how they pop! And they will color their faces in compliments and mount the four images together.

Then-- if my perfect 5 wasnt enough, i was teaching my kindergarteners how to make an acordian fold book. we were working on the harold and the purple crayon lesson and this was the third time teaching it ( i have 4 kindergartens) and this group was able to accordian fold! it was great!!!!

thats all for today!

It's been a while!

Hey there!

It has been a while-- But I am still alive, barely, but still alive. Things have been busier and busier!

I am working on a bunch of different things right now, my CWS for Sage, my lessons for right now, my lessons (thinking ahead) for solo week, my kids are having an art show at the holiday concert and i am in charge of 2 grades projects, plus a display for a different grade!!

So, my thanksgiving break, was not a break at all- I even threw my back out. Yes... I got injured cleaning! yuck!

Anyways back to my projects. I am still teaching my CWS to the kindergarteners, but I am now also working with 4th grade, i have now taught 2 out of the three classes, I am tetaching my third and final pop art lesson on wednesday and being observed, ( wish me luck!)

When i am solo teaching, i will be working with K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.. I think, oh yea and the two special ed classrooms!! So i have been thinking of some ideas on what to do, but not sure what to do for all of them. I am thinking about doing marionette puppets with grade 6, so i will be making one to see if they are a.) interested and b.) can do it..

So thats all for now..

i will work on pics for the pop art faces, they are looking pretty good so far....

_____ and the ______ Crayon

Introducing literature and math in art, i used harold and the purple crayon, and then we made accordian books.

I read....





And this is how mine came out... I think it could be published globally!!!!!

yea I Did it!!!!

Wow- that only took me like three times, thanks Safari for unexpectedly quitting!

After the preassement, we did a larger version where the students were asked to create all the lines after matching their card with mine. ( i made a set of flash cards for each of the student tables, plus one for me to match theirs too) Then we worked on coloring in the lines, but instead we looked for shapes and spaces that we created from the lines.

As usual with kindergarten, some struggled and some got it. Some rushed, some were patient. I feel that with this lesson, watercolor would be better than crayon on crayon. hey - You live, you learn..And i lived through this lesson, and learned from it!


here are some photos, an overall and a detail, of a great example.....



Detail:

Assessments!

Hey There! Just thought you would like to see an assessment I have done for my kindergarten class about lines!

Instead of telling them i was testing them , i decided to play a game! what kindergartener doesnt like games?!?!

i only got one with all the right answers!!! which surprised me in a weird way! But here it is!





Then! There were these two... They didn't do so well, but at least they attempted something....

"My School!"

Hey there!

Ugh! I have finally found am minute to sit down and figure out how to post some images! so.. like i have been saying, i am currently interning at one of the 12 elementary schools in Schentady.....

http://www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/Elmer_Avenue_School/index.htm


Check out the site! Some of" my kids" art is on the site! Under the Fine Arts Section!!!