Have you heard of Scratch Garden?

Have you seen the YouTube channel, Scratch Garden? 

IT IS AMAZING!

I was working on patterns with my students, and was looking for some good videos I could share to reinforce the idea (and show the crossover between art/math/science and such). My students LOVED these videos.  Take some time and look through the channel to see what you might use in your classroom! 

Math Investigation Day In Art?!?!?!?

Art teachers are being asked more & more to support areas in the regular classroom where there are deficits.  Our school has started a math initiative where the whole school participates in a Math Investigation Friday.  I personally did not want to like it...or want to do it.  However, I am a team player...and found a fun way to sneak it into my classroom where it would not take a lot of time away from our curriculum.  All day I had student come back and draw their favorite shape on a post-it note(I used a different color for each grade level & placed K-4 in the corner).  I then placed the post-its on a graph(sort of).  At the end of the class I had students make observations on the results.  I recorded the results, and placed all of into the hall way.  Some of the answers my 4th graders gave me were hysterical!  I know that we naturally have math elements in so much of what we do, but I wanted to do something "extra" for our initiative.