Teacher Reflections: The Final Jr. High Project of the Year!
With just one last week coming up, I'm winding down the art projects in Jr. High. The art project on the right was about freedom and how...
Teacher Reflections: Jr. High Creativity
The second part of my teacher reflections stems from my Jr. High groups. They are working on a challenge of creativity and aestetics....
Teacher Reflections: Kindergarten Creativity
I'm splitting this week's teacher reflections into 2 parts. The first is this series of images of Kindergarten artwork juxtaposed with...
Teacher Reflections: Piecing it all Together
It has been a long time since I've filled out a Teacher Reflections blog, and I think it's honestly because there have been so many days...
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: 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: 2 Days = 1 Image
This week was just 2 days long due to Thanksgiving, but we stayed busy in the artroom. All I can show for this week are the Tinted...
Teacher Reflections: Hands on Art
There is a lot of painting going on this week in the art room. And, with all of that painting, there is a lot of learning how to clean...
Teacher Reflections: Why can't we just make pictures?
This was one busy, whirlwind, art-making sorta week. I got my Kindergarteners to paint a wonderful Jungle border as the base of their...
