In my fourth grade classroom for field (as I have mentioned) they do art every Friday. This past week they worked on symmetry and congruency. I thought this was a fun and neat project for them. They had to make sure that (like a kaleidoscope) the sides were symmetrical with one another, so that if it was folded, it would be the same on both sides. This helped students also learn the concept of congruency (things being equal to one another). Here is some of their finished works of art :) Click here for a great link to other symmetry and art project ideas this teacher gives in her blog. She has some Robert Munsch art projects in there, and those are some of the greatest books, kids love them. Great link for teachers in the younger grade (especially first).
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When i first picked the Salt Dough project to do for art, I had no idea what I was going to do. I had yet to incorporate my dog, Miley, into a project and I wanted all my projects to include something I love or am passionate about. Miley, is my three year old Yorkie, and she is spoiled rotten, I absolutely love and adore her to pieces, so I kept thinking to myself; how can I use salt dough to represent Miley? Then, I got the idea to imprint her paw into the dough. Miley even helped me mix the dough (as seen in the photo below) she loves helping her mommy! This project was fun because it was a fun way for me to make something meaningful using something that is an important part in my life. I decided to paint in the paw print once I got to school because it was hard to see the imprint in the dough without it. This was a fun project, and I would definitely like to use salt dough in my classroom, there are so many possibilities!
I chose pop art as one of my art projects in class. Before doing my research I thought pop art was a bunch of dots thrown together in a cartoon looking thing. Come to find out, pop art is the four-square idea of (like Warhol). Using something I was passionate about I had a hard time deciding what to do for my photo. I am a big Pinterest fan, and I love makeup. Using Pinterest I took the idea of doing my eye makeup using the Urban Decay Naked palette and followed the step by step instructions. My eyes turned out amazing! I took a photo of my eyes and the Naked Palettes that I incorporated. To me, this looked like a perfect opportunity to use my pop art project, thus was my result below, and I have to say I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I used an app on the computer to change the colors the way I wanted to, so that was a way to make it even more my own.
I myself do not believe I am a very artistic person. I feel as though I don't have the creativity or skill when creating art pieces. So, when I heard that for our art class we had to conduct four art pieces, I wanted to have a panic attack (art...me?...no way!) I saw the list of categories for the art mediums we got to choose from and was relieved a little as I saw there was some things I thought I can do. For my first project I decided to do a collage (this was something I was familiar with and since it didn't require drawing, I was golden. I am always taking pictures of my niece, Reese, whenever I am able to see her, I have so many pictures and never do anything with them so I knew this would be the perfect opportunity. I am proud of how my project turned out and thought it was a great experience. The one challenging part I had was being able to fit the pictures in a way so that they could neatly fit onto the poster board without covering up large parts or main parts of the other photos. (Finished product.)
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.)
Pinterest is a great resource for finding ways to incorporate art into the classroom, click on the Pniterest link to start pinning your favorite art ideas :) https://www.pinterest.com/
Names make us feel unique and special. Some of us (like myself) may have common names, but to us, our name means a lot. It is what we are given the day we are born by our mothers and fathers, it is associated with us our whole lives. Growing up, I never felt I had an unusual or weird name, and I still don't think I do. My parents could've swore I was going to be a boy (they never found out what they were having ahead of time), so when I was born, they were surprisingly shocked (so convinced that I was going to be a boy, that they already had a boy name picked out and ready to go and weren't quite set yet on a girl's name). My oldest sister's middle name is Nicole, which is where they got my name from. My grandmother's middle name is Kathleen which is how they decided my middle name. My first name to me isn't very special, it's my last name I feel that is so unique. Every Labuzienski in the U.S. (no there are not very many of us) I am related to. Most of us are here in South Bend, but there is a handful down in Florida, and we are all related. My great grandparents last name was "Labuz" but my great-grandfather didn't think it sounded very polish, so he changed it to "Labuzienski". I love the uniqueness in my last name since there are very few Labuzienski's around, I must admit I may be a little disappointed once I am married and my name changes, however, it'll be much easier on my students ;)
To me, a creative teacher is one who can think in his/her own way (may not be necessarily "outside of the box"). In my opinion, I do not feel that I am very creative, I tend to see things as they are and my mind is not yet as imaginative as I would like it to be. I don't think creative teachers' classrooms all necessarily have the same look. (They each have their own creative way of making it look how they want.) But one thing I do picture is a lot of students' work on the walls and not just a bunch of posters, (vague or unresourceful), when I picture a creative looking classroom. Each has their own "uniqueness" about it. During our first week in field back in January (4th Grade), the students were working on a Mythology unit. One neat idea that incorporated art into their unit, was the they were to create Greek mythology trading cards.
The directions stated: "During our study of Greek Mythology, you have read several myths. For this assignment you will create six Greek mythology trading cards. You can choose your six favorite mythological characters. They can be a combination of gods, goddesses, heroes, and creatures. You will need six index cards to complete this activity. Use the following information and scoring rubric when creating your trading cards. Front of card MUST contain the following: - The name of your god, goddess, hero, or creature in color. - An illustration of your god, goddess, hero, or creature in color. - A colorful background or border (may contain symbols that represent your character) Back of card MUST contain the following: - Three facts about your mythological character (Some ideas could include: Where does your character come from? What are the characters extraordinary qualities, talents, or abilities?_ - Your first and last name needs to be written on the back of each card. The scoring rubric for this project contained: -All six trading cards were completed. - Name of characters written neatly on each card and in color. - Illustration for each character. - Colorful background or border on each card. - Each card contains three facts about the character. - Work is neat and well-planned. - First and last name is on the back of each card. *Total points out of 40. I took a couple of photos of one student who claimed he was finished with his trading cards. He did such a great job so I asked if I could borrow them, it didn't take very long until I realized this student had done Egyptian gods instead of Greek ones. I was going to use different cards to show or represent this project after realizing so, but then I realized I wanted to show how easy it might have been to interpret gods in a different sense and then when doing research on their gods it should have been more definite or clear to the students to make sure they were looking up the correct ones. It also shows the raw work that was done in the classroom. The student who did the cards has autism and has an IEP. His artwork and cards are very well done minus the fact he used the wrong type of characters. (Bottom photo is cropped to remove students identification.) I think this was a great way to incorporate art into the lesson. The students really enjoyed it and since it was a project that spanned over several days they really put a lot of work into their cards and since many of them do trading cards at home (e.g. Pokémon) they could relate this to what they already know about trading cards. Some students even went as far as to add their own information onto the cards that may not have been included into the rubric. Resource used for photo: Dragonfly Pond This project was very interesting (eye opening) once we had to work and combine our thoughts and ideas with the other class. The community project in itself focused on the idea of life and how lives would be lived around/in Dragonfly Pond. A lot of thought had to go into how certain placement of places and businesses would affect the community (whether it be in a positive or a negative way). We had to put into consideration the happiness of others as we created the pond. What I thought was interesting was how the other class handled the activity by creating their own community away from what our class had started. It pointed out how this does occur in real life (e.g. Granger). I am originally from Granger and I see a difference in communities when I moved to the Osceola/Elkhart area. So this activity really put things into perspective.
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