big mouth strikes again
I wish I didn’t get as frustrated as I do. I never YELL directly at my kids, but I do raise my voice (it is an art room with 27+ children all talking at once). I’m worried that my loud mouth might scare my students from time to time, although I never observed any of them seeming anxious.
Regardless, after all of that nonsense went down with my 5th grader, I felt a little broken for a bit. I had a big conference with his mother and it was pretty awful. He almost confessed to lying but his overbearing, pushy parent prevented that from happening. I guess I’m over it…. I’m sure I’ll be dealing with a lot more ridiculous bullshit as the years go on.
Currently in art class we have the following:
- printmaking with Kindergarten (using fresh leaves and Styrofoam plates)
- Day of the Dead skeleton paintings with 1st graders (love having my wittle puerto rican kids pronounce “Dia de Los Muertos” for the class)
- India Batik scarves (with crayon, tempera, and paper) for 2nd - Finishing up Ojo de Dios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_eye) weavings with 3rd grade and then moving on to Native American art
- 4th graders are exploring the ancient Maya civilization and creating reliefs in gold foil
- 5th graders JUST finished their chuck close portraits, painted their background with bright acrylic paint, and are now moving on to sugar skulls for Dia de Los Muertos.
some pictures:
The art room gets a smart board!!!! Here are the 4th graders discussing the surrealist work of Salvador Dali. They were really into finding things hidden in his images - couldn’t get through all the slides because they wouldn’t stop commenting!
I maade this grip for Aljonae, my 5th grader with cerebral palsy. she usually uses a computer to write, but I wanted her to still be able to draw in art class.
I discovered potential visual dyslexia in a kindergarten student while using letters in art.
Recent works:
Clearly VERY proud of 5th graders Caitlyn and Jovaan for doing SO well on their Chuck Close grid portraits. After this, they picked a solid color and painted the background. The grid is basically unnoticeable in the finished pieces.
observational object studies using warm and cool colors
Finished: Quadir’s pear. Love the cool color one
Finished: Terrance’s bottles
see ya!
