September 20, 2013

Painted Branches: 2nd Grade




Here is a fun project my student teacher is doing this week with my 2nd graders. They are using the Biggie Watercolor sets by Crayola.  We felt this would be best as not to have the students muddy up colors in their painting by all the choices.   The Biggie sets only have four colors, and Ms. G told the student to not use the red.   Plus the bright colors look almost tie dye "ish"...and the brightness of the color allows the black to really have a great impact.  We cut the 12x18 paper to 10x18 just to emphasis the length of branch. This project was completed in one class time.










September 18, 2013

Teacher After School Art


I noticed many of our teacher getting stressed over the past couple weeks....
so I decided tooffer an after school art session.  One of the teachers
 had asked me if they could do the same project that my 3rd graders 
had done (the Chagall / Van Gogh hybrid).  I only had 4 teachers come, 
but they had a great time...and that is what matters!!!


September 17, 2013

PROGRESS ON THE STACKED BOX MURAL


....Little by Little....
The selected students are loving extra time in the art room painting!!!  
They are doing a great job...and I'm going to need to get busy with the design for the other side in the not too distant future!!!!!!!!!  

September 16, 2013

TGE's Stacked Box Mural Project

If you follow other MNPS art teachers' blogs....you may have seen
The Stacked Box Mural Project.
They were able to obtain sponsors for the boxes going to area schools.  I had 32 boxes available to me, but only took 20(I was afraid of the time factor).  They asked the art teacher to draw out the image and have the students paint it.  I've only done one side so far.  We'll see how quickly the kids paint it.

Here is a bit of information about the project!

September 14, 2013

17 DAYS!!!!

17 DAYS
AND THE FUNDS WERE RAISED!!!!!

I'm so excited, my goal was reached on Friday morning...just 17 days after I started.  By this time next month, I'll be posting what all I'm using my iPad for!!!!! 

I'm going to leave my campaign active until the time expires on it.  Who knows..maybe more money will come in and I can get an iPad mini to allow my students to use too!!!

Last night our Title One coordinator placed it on the school facebook page...and that is how I finished up today!!! AMAZING PARENTS COMING ON TO REACH THE GOAL!!! 
THANK YOU TO:
THOSE WHO CAME ON TODAY 
CHRYSTAL STARBIRD
KEITH SHERRY
JANET TURNER-MCDONALD
GRETCHEN BORDERS
& A PARENT THAT DID NOT GIVE THEIR NAME!  

THANKS AGAIN TO THE OTHERS THAT SUPPORTED THIS CAMPAIGN:
Alaethea Hensley
Shanna Piatt
James Meyers(Artsonia)
Bethany Johnson
Marion McIntyre
Meg Hayes
Laura Maxwell


September 13, 2013

Elementary Art Teacher PD: Kindergarten Focus

"WHAT?!?!?! PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ELEMENTARY ART TEACHERS?!?! 
I LOVE IT...SIGN ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Ha ha ... I love this picture of Ms. Edwards from yesterday's PD!!! She's one of my former student teachers, and I told her I was going to put this picture up!! (hee hee...evil laugh)

Yesterday started our elementary art professional development sessions!!  This year we have 6 days set aside for PD just for the elementary art teachers in our district(there are over 90 of us!!).  This first installment was focused on Kindergarten Art.  We had asked the teachers at our final PD day last year what they would be interested in ....and that was at the top of the list!!!!  Ms. Malone & I both love Kindergarten...and found that they are who we most frequently post about!!! 
We had back to back projects the whole day...and would share ideas/tips/products/supply management/classroom management/books as we worked on the different projects.
























The AMAZING MS. MALONE
She & I taught the PD Day!!  






This "BUBBA" fish is my fav!!! ha ha