Teacher Reflections: New Batch of Jr. High Artists and Monkey Selfies
I'm 2 weeks into the new semester and that means a new group of Jr. High artists. Before I became a Jr. High art teacher years ago, I...
Teacher Reflections: Notes on Notan
What a great week of art making! In Jr. High, I'm working on an extensive unity on negative space. We started by using words and letters...
Teacher Reflections: The First Week = Just 2 Days
Well, here we are. I'm back in the art room, students are back in school, and you're back at my blog! There were really only 2 days of...
Teacher Reflections: It's just Art-breaking
Let me fill you in with my schedule, and hopefully that'll explain this title. My Kindergarten through 2nd grade come to Art every 2...
Teacher Reflections: Back From Break
It was a fast 3-day week back from Winter break. It was supposed to be a full week, but bad weather came in. So, coming back was simple....
Teacher Reflections: Finished Chuck Close Paintings
As my Jr. High artists were working on their large Chuck Close influenced paintings, I began to notice how they were losing focus. Some...
Teacher Reflections: Plaster Hands Slide Show
My 8th Grade artists were challenged to plaster sculpt their hands, and then create a sculpture with that hand. Some of these students...
Teacher Reflections: Chuck Close Paintings
I can honestly say I have no idea what happened to this week. It seemed to zip by in a blur. So, I'm only able to talk about the latest...
Teacher Reflections: Kiss the Paper
Running down to the last few weeks of Jr. High, we pushed to finish our Plaster Hand Sculptures. The neat aspect of this project was to...
Teacher Reflections: The Open-Ended Challenge
I only have one awesome project to talk about this week. Continued from last week, my 8th graders are challenged with what to build using...
