It's been a while!

As I said before, Graduate School and Interning have been keeping me busy and goinng insane! So.. Let me get you all up to date!

For the past two months I have been interning at an Elementary school in Schenectady. The first four weeks or so, I was observing and helping out here and there passing out papers, helping students during working time and helping keep the peace. The art room can be a crazy place, between cleanup and excitement of the projects.

Then the past couple weeks I have been mirroring my cooperating teacher ( who I LOVE! she has great projects!). She would teach one class and I would teach the next. It has been going pretty well, I am working on the things we have discussed for me to improve.

Some of the great projects we have done have been Blotter Bugs ( making secondary colors from primary colors) Torn Landscapes ( tearing paper to create mountains, trees, and leaves.) Shape Creatures ( using shape tracers to create "robot"like creatures) 6th grade Self Portraits ( students are using photos of themselves (we took them in class) and enlarging portraits) and then the basics contour line drawing, creating 3d froms, and value.

This coming week i will have a lot to write about, as I will be begining my 5 week Kindergarten unit. The unit is about the art element, Line. I will be pre and post testing the students, and doing 5 projects in between. I am incorporating Math and English ( literature) into my unit. I will be reading "Harold and The Purple Crayon" for one lesson, we will be discussing folding of paper and creating halves and quarter sections on a sheet of paper. We will be making a sculpture out of lines and we will be making a piece mimicing some of Wassily Kandinsky's "Compositions" pieces.

Again, I hope to load some pictures soon, As we start creating some art I will start taking some images.

Take Two!

Hello Out there...

Graduate School is busy, Student Interning is crazy.... That is my life at the moement.

Graduate School keeps me busy, morning, noon and night... If I am not doing schools work, I am doing school work...

My internship is in an Elementary school in Schenectady, and I do not remember school being that exciting.... Everyday is an adventure there. Whether it being a temper tantrum, or a kid saying the darndest thing....

Thats all for now, Sorry so short. Maybe next time I will have some pictures!