This site is meant primarily as a resource for other elementary visual art teachers. Enjoy! All works posted before August 2014 are images from an elementary school I worked at in DC, all posted after that date are from an language immersion elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. Feel free to use ideas shared on this blog.Please, if trying out the ideas , at the very minimum give me written/verbal credit. Thank you!!
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Use PowerPoint to create easy visuals to help during transitions
Due to a tight schedule, it's important for kids to get into their routines, to have good routines that flow well and that kids do them just so. Here is a slide I use when kids are ready to line up. They push in their chairs, they throw away their wipes and then line up.
This slide is for hand cleaning. I often will prefer kids to first wipe their hands, THEN wipe the tables with the same wipes. That way their hands get the wipe while its clean.
Construction unit begins in 2nd grade with exploration of the cube
Each child is given 6 squares. We discuss what makes a square a square.
Kids use masking take to tape together the sides in the form of a T
Almost done!
Once done, they use masking tape to cover the slits on the sides.
Some chose to decorate them
Some chose to make them into gift boxes. Some make them into dice. Others made them into fortune tellers.
Here is one class' worth of cubes.
4th graders personalizing their sketchbooks
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