Saturday, May 28, 2011

More from school

One of the things I got to do a lot during my student teaching were art lessons.  My amazing cooperating teacher Mrs. Redd (Katie) had art for rotations while the other two teachers did PE and extra math.  So I was able to do a lot of art lessons.  One of my favorites was creating three dimensional sunflower pictures based loosely on Van Gogh's sunflower paintings.  Here are the results:




We used chalk, pencils, glue, construction paper, tissue paper, black beans, and every one turned out to be different and unique!  I love how they look!

Another project I did with my class combined using warm or cool colors, mosaic, their names, and a stained glass window effect.  Each student did their name and mounted it on either matching or contrasting paper.  I love how these turned out as well.

My example




It was so much fun to watch them make these.  We also did one more art project with our names.  I only have a picture of my example but the kids really got into this project as well. 
I can hardly wait to do things like this ALL THE TIME!!!!

So today I will be grateful for art in general.  Such a great way to let out all the creativity we have inside.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I love your art projects too. One thing you could do next is connect them to some kind of writing and put that under your art; poems they wrote, speech bubbles about Van Go, I AM poems to go with their names etc. I had a district superintendent come in my room when I was student teaching and he made me promise to link art to writing. I've kept that promise. And now as a veteran teacher I see why it was important he made me promise to do it. Now it's your turn to take that challenge! :D

Amanda said...

That is GREAT advice! I will do that when I get a little more control over the time spent on each subject. I can hardly wait to do this all the time!!!!