Another incorporation of Art into a lesson in my 4th grade field classroom. Since President's Day was in February my cooperating teacher decided to have the students work on a lesson that would incorporate a President. Students had to do an acrostic poem on Abraham Lincoln. When doing the acrostic they had to get on computers to do research on the President to make sure they had factual information and to get them used to conducting research on a topic. First, they did a rough draft of their poem which would then need to be approved by the teacher or any of the teacher candidates in the classroom (there are three of us). Once approved, the students wrote their final copy on a manila colored sheet of paper. Once they were finished with that they had the choice of doing the art piece (half of the art pieces were already pre-cut and the students got to add their own drawing and cut the rest of the pieces). At first the art porting of this lesson was not an option until several of the students said they didn't want to or weren't interested in doing the art. I was surprised by their reaction to this because I feel as though the art portion would be the students' favorite part of the lesson.
(Teacher example of finished product. )
(Student example of finished product.)
(Examples of student work on wall upon entering the classroom.)