I love finding short and sweet videos to show for demos. This is the one I showed today as part of day 2 of the “collage around the room” activity. I pointed out the artist’s method of cutting out everything…
Artistic Habits: Developing Craft ~UPDATED~
Today I did my first Artistic Habits Lesson on “Developing Craft” or art making skills. First off, why I am calling them Artistic Habits, instead of Artistic Behaviors which is what the TAB acronym is based on? Well, School-wide we are doing the…
Free Art Friday
Three of my classes (the ones with higher proportions of 8th graders and kids that had art before) finished the Draw Around the Room game a full day faster than the other 3 classes. So they earned their first studio…
Supply Scavenger Hunt
Our first official day of ART was last Friday. I had the kids do a supply scavenger hunt. I have always done something like this, but my past hunt was more of a question answer type of thing rather than…
Stress and Excitement
My classes this year are the most diverse they have ever been and I am very stressed about it. Basically, I am the bottom rung on the scheduling ladder. All the classes get slotted in and then whatever period is…
So Behind!
I have been trying to get set up and well organized before students. But I have been thwarted by problems left and right. Some issues are good and others not so much. We lost our bond this year in the…