Student Art Work - Photos of First Weeks Lessons

Kindergarten student making a Leaf Person.

Kindergarten student making a Leaf Person.

2nd Graders making Leaf Rubbings.

2nd Graders making Leaf Rubbings with black crayon......will be painted over with water colors.

The happy Kindergarteners making Paper Plate Pumpkins.

Kindergarten student making a Paper Plate Apple.

Kindergarteners making Paper Plate Pumpkins.

Nice work boys!

2nd Graders - Leaf Rubbings.

These turned out beautiful!

Excellent work!

Beautiful fall leaves!

This is a picture of what I give students as rewards at the end of class.  My sticker chart has boxes and the class earns a sticker if they all follow my art rules.  Each day I choose different students to take a High Five, an Art Star, or a Smiley Face.   The High Five is given to a student who did a great job following the rules, the Art Star is for someone who did their personal best with their project, and the Smiley Face is for someone who made me or another student smile (sharing, being nice, giving a compliment, etc).  The kids LOVE to earn these and I enjoy rewarding students for good behavior.

Kindergarteners cutting out lines.

Kindergarten Line Variety Project.

Kindergarten Line Variety Project.

Art for Students with Autism

I've listed below some art projects I've done with my Art class for students with autism.

Day 1 - Name Dot Painting, Play-doh, Coloring Page

Day 2 - It was a HOT day.  We made suns out of construction paper using one large circle and rectangle strips of paper for the sun's rays.  Then the students practiced lacing cheerios on pipe cleaners.

Day 3 - We did apple printing, and made Paper Plate Apples.

Day 4 - Mrs. Brown's Line Variety Project

Day 5 -  Apple Trees

Day 6 - Nature Walk to collect leaves. 

Day 7/8/9/10 - Leaf People , Paper Plate Pumpkins, Apple Jack Pumpkins and leaf rubbings.

 

Day 11/12 - Cute Spiders, Candy Corn

First Weeks of Art Class

Things we have learned about in Art class this year:

Kindergarten/2nd Grade:

1st Day - We read the book "Art" by Patrick McDonnell, learned about the Art room rules and rewards, Choice draw/coloring time.

2nd Day - Lesson on Lines - Students practiced drawing the different kinds of lines (straight, curvy, zig-zag, curly, etc) and practiced cutting lines and gluing on paper.

3rd Day - Lesson on Lines - We read the book  - "Lines That Wiggle" by Candice Witman.  Students learned about vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines.  We did "Mrs. Brown's Line Variety" project.

4th Day - The class drew their September Self-Portraits and Kindergarten finished their line variety paintings.  2nd graders learned how to draw an owl and started step one of their Apple Tree Project.

5th Day - Lesson on Shapes - We read the book "When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins" by Rhonda Growler Greene.  Kindergarten students did a Shape Person Project.  2nd Grade students finished their Apple Tree Project and made sketch book covers along with one sketch book page (....how to draw a clown and how to draw a sheep).

6th Day - Leaves - We read the book "Let It Fall" - and did some art using real leaves.  We did leaf rubbings, and Kindergarten students made Leaf People.  2nd Graders also began a Leaf Rubbing Project using black crayons (to be painted over with water colors the next week).

7th Day - Kindergarten - We read the book "Apples and Pumpkins" and students had the choice to make a paper plate pumpkin or a paper plate apple.  2nd Graders finished their Leaf Rubbing (used water colors) and also had time for their sketch books (how to draw a panda bear and how to draw a train). 

New Art Teacher

Hi Everyone,

I am new to teaching Art this year.  I have been teaching Physical Education since 2005.  This year I am teaching some PE and some Art (Kindergarten, 2nd grade and Art for ASD students).  I created this blog as a way to communicate with parents, share ideas with other teachers, and keep track of my lessons online.  (I have a PE blog at http://carly3.blogspot.com/). 

So far the year is off to a great start!  My goal is to maximize the time in the Art room for students.   I often start my lessons off with a great book that ties into the lesson idea for the day, then the kids are off to creating beautiful pieces of art work!

My Art lessons will be based on teaching the elements of Art which include line, shape, color, texture, space and value.  We will also be doing a lot of seasonal art projects.  :-) Here is a link to my parent newsletter.