Are you looking for a super-successful clay project for 3rd-5th grade? Our third graders loved making these sea turtle pinch pots. Check out the video tutorial! I’ve included a short video of our school’s Skutt kiln. I’ve found that young students don’t understand the process that ...
My first graders... Learn More 1 Related Categories: 1st Grade Art Lessons Inclusion/Special Needs Art Projects Spring Art Mexican Art Unit: Sombrero & Poncho Art Project MEXICAN ART UNIT: SOMBRERO & PONCHO My third grade classes are a creative and energetic bunch. They have a hard time...
This is a fun, one-day project for kids that teaches about positive and negative space and is good for spatial awareness. I taught this to my 1st graders and most of them understood the concepts and some of them needed help. First, positive space is the shape you cut out of the paper...
I feel like I have been getting into a groove and things are going pretty well. Here is a lesson I did for kindergarten and first grade. Repetition in art means to repeat something again and again. If you have been making distance learning art lessons and have shared them on a website...
and say “My mom did that when you were her teacher!” There are some lessons I do each year, simply because they teach technique, idea well and students love them. I ran into a 25 year old who said she still had her drawing based on Picassso’s 3 Musicians she made in third ...
problems on the board. No paper visible among these second graders. Students would raise their hand with a solution they had worked out in their heads, be called upon, come to the front of the room, and respond. We don’t even begin teaching basic multiplication facts until third grade…...
The stakes feel high. You want the lesson to go well, for the students to have a lot to say and truly connect with the work of art. But they all have different tastes, interests, and attention spans. How do you capture 25 third graders or a bunch of screen-loving teens?
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 ...
Since it would be pretty difficult for all our 4th graders to duplicate his effort, we instead used paint to create the gentle landscape of Coloma, and sprinkled gold glitter on to represent how gold changed the California landscape. Some students took on the challenge of cutting out images ...
And so, in conceptualizing lessons for my early learners, I add another question to the mix: What environment do my families and I need in order to learn authentically? In my experience, we need the following things: Novelty Flexibility Understanding We need novelty to keep us guessing, ...