This is an example of the funny essays posted online. Chinese students would write in these essay booklets with squares that made it easy to count characters. The word requirements would rise as we rose in grades: 200 characters for 2nd grader, 300 characters for 3rd graders, and so on. M...
During the first week of school, you want to be teaching routines and expectations for your art class. I always like to ease into the school year with some simple, yet creative projects to get to know my students. I am going to share with you three fun Back-to-School ideas that you ...
I hope you all have had a relaxing and restful holidays and are ready for the new year. Today I have some cardboard shape pictures to share with you that my 2nd graders created. We first looked at the artist Marcus Oakley and his cardboard shape pictures for inspiration. Students could ...
First graders will love the silliness of this project, but it’s not all just fun and games. These watercolor birds show the differences between warm and cool colors, and thelonglegs are a tribute to the master of the unexpected,Salvador Dalí. Learn more:Dalí Spring Birds youngschoolart.b...
Have a great year and try Pinterest for keeping all your “internet” ideas in one handy place. It’s SO useful. Reply Teri August 26, 2011 at 6:53 am I homeschool 3 children, grades K, 2nd, and 7th. I am not an art teacher. I struggle with including art into our already busy...
“How can two 4th graders draw something like this?!” I thought in the WAY back of my cynical adult brain… But after witnessing the passion Alice and Jenna had for creating something original content and telling a story, all of those doubts were dropped that night. And I even helped ...
Anyway. There is an opening for an Elementary Art Specialist for 3 small elementary schools that I want to apply for. I miss the kids an love to teach. I am a bit intimidated by elementary art but would love the challenge. I am looking for as many ideas as possible. I would love to...
I have excellent handwriting and even do calligraphy, but it came naturally to me. In my new 3rd grade school,, the school had taught handwriting to the 2nd graders and I was a new 3rd grader but my old school taught it in 3rd grade...so my teacher just put the letters above the ...
lots of great ideas for projects, and really helpful instructors. I actually completed almost all of the small sewing projects that practice the various elements of art, and I am learning a good deal. Part of what I am seeing is why some of my work really comes together and what’s miss...
animals to any picture or design you can dream up. Try makingaluminum foil artwith preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids in first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders too. All you need are a few simple materials to make a stunning work of art with thistin fo...