A Closer Look At You

Students were asked to draw four objects that represent something about their identity or something they like. They were to zoom in, use an interesting composition or layout, add texture, and apply shading. Sometimes it's the simple, tried and true lessons, that end up being the most my students learn from! (Sorry for the bowing out in the pictures, my camera does that- argh!)

Premio Dardos

Thanks to The Small Art Teacher Blog for the Premio Dardos award! It's an award passed on from one blogger to another in recognition for their creativity, effort, and dedication. Blogging to share ideas, experiences, tips, and techniques does take time, but it's rewarding to know that your input is valued and appreciated : ).

And so... I pass the torch!:

Tales from a Traveling Teacher: Although her blog is not specifically an art education blog, Kelli is very deserving of this award for her terrific pictures, student examples, and worksheet examples. I know all of you have some classroom teacher friends that can be referred to her site!

Miss Young's Art Room: For a young lady, she's got some awesome, original lessons! I love how fresh her ideas are and she provides a lot of student examples!

Last, but not least,

Use Your Coloured Pencils: Another fabulous blog with some really cool lessons that you don't see on every typical art blog. She definitely has some projects that I've bookmarked to "borrow"- definitely a must check out!

Great job, ladies. Keep up the great work! I love working in a field and feeding off of creative people, so keep on inspiring : )

Very random request- Vote for me!

Alright.. so this has nothing to do with the art education world... more so just the art world. As an art teacher, I happen to be really into interior design, too.

Winter Silhouettes

Materials:

- Paint! 

Kaleidoscope Names

Materials:
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper
- Pencils
- Colored Pencils/ Markers
- Ruler

Circles into Polar Bears

Materials:
- Black Markers
- Glue
- Scissors
- Scrap Construction Paper

Each child will need:
(1) 12" x 12" blue construction paper
(1) 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" white construction paper
(2) 4" x 4" white construction paper
(1) 11" x 3" white construction paper
(1) 5" x 5" gray construction paper

Sunday Comic

Enjoy : - )

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Shaving Cream Snowfriend

Have you seen or heard of this?! I love it! It's one part shaving cream and one part glue. We made these snowfriends in my Life Skills class and 4:1:1 class, but this can easily be done with Kinders and 1st graders too!

Peter Max Space Scapes

These were done with my long term sub. Although I can not take credit for this lesson, I thought they were too fabulous not to share!

Sunday Comic

So... I go back to work tomorrow : (. Although, I love my job, I really don't want my maternity leave to end. I miss my little Abe just thinking about it (and he's sleeping right in front of me!). However... I can't be like ol' Mona here and start complaining, I am very thankful to even have a career to return to. My timing couldn't have been more perfect, coming back from Thanksgiving break, being with family, and I even had my ten year high school reunion this weekend! Seeing old friends who are new mommies going through the same thing was really nice.

So here I am art bloggers, I'm back : )- hopefully posting soon. It might take me a little bit to get organized and back into the swing of things (June was a long time ago!), but keep a look out for me! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a very blessed holiday season.

Thursday Comic

Thought I'd pop in and take a break from my little fuss bus of a baby. Hope everyone had a successful Open House this year! Enjoy : - )

Welcome Baby Abram!

Just thought I'd share the wonderful reason I will be out for the beginning of this school year- welcome to the world baby Abram! Weighing in at 8 lbs 3 oz, 21 1/2 inches long - he's by far my best creation yet : )

Hope you all had a great, successful, and fun first day to the school year.. I know I wouldn't have spent mine any other way.

Long Term Sub (Part 2)

I thought I'd share the template I used for my long term absence in case anyone wanted a starting off point for whenever they may need a long term sub. I apologize ahead of time, I use Pages on my Mac and tried saving it as a Word Document so that you can edit it yourself, but for some reason the boxes get all mixed up, so I've attached a pdf. If you'd like a copy that you can just type on to, I'd be more than happy to send you the template with just the prompts and no boxes. Hope this helps!

LONG TERM
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