1/28/23
validation that sharing your learning helps
This is a post about validation. I believe fully in sharing all I do so that others can engage with it, maybe even try the things I do themselves. I shared this video ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvkjFD9gZAY on a Facebook group and days later I get this amazing response from another reader.....
1/26/23
cutting hearts and snowflakes
Kindergarten students need a lot of scissor practice. BUT, too many teachers just give out boring cut-for-no-purpose activities and expect kids to remain engaged. Around January and February we combine paper folding and paper cutting to make snowflakes and hearts. These two subject matter are exciting enough to keep kids this age engaged as they get better. This series of lessons allows kids to have plenty of options and choices..... names go on the back.
Day 1: practice cutting snowflakes (have kids take them home)
Day 2: Practice cutting snowflakes and glue them on some paper (blue or black for day or night)
Day 3: Practice cutting hearts (take them home)
Day 4: Practice cutting hearts and gluing them onto paper. Students can glue the positive AND the negative shape of the heart and if they so wish they could also cut snowflakes and glue those on their work
Day 5: they can add paper sprinkles to their work by cutting there paper into parallel line strips then across to make tiny square sprinkles.
Day 6: Can use oil pastel to add details to their work. (take home or hang for display)
1/3/23
watercolor unit -2nd grade
Instagram reel covering this class: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm_1RGdos9K/
Always let kids explore a media first before starting a unit. You will learn quite a bit.
below are some examples of 2nd grade exploration paintings ....and what I learned from them....
I learned that they over-mixed colors
I learned that they lack control of the water in the brush and that they try to use the brush like a pen
Same here.....in the image below I learned that they try to layer but do not understand that the "details" get lost IF the paper below is still wet. they do not yet know the concept of wet on wet and wet on dry.
here too....the artist tries to detail but the paper below is still wet.
here the artists shows a lack of understanding of the correlation between color intensity on the paintbrush matching the color intensity in the paper.
And here.....the student thought she was done because she covered the entire paper with paint.....
Students don’t often know that several layers of water colors make the color more opaque. Instead of telling them it’s much more fun just watching them learn this on their own. This was the second day of watercolor exploration in second grade and students were given their paintings from the other day and told to add Details and anything else they wanted on the same painting. On the third day we are going to take a look at these paintings and talk about why the colors might differ in some areas why some are lighter why some are more opaque why some are very watery looking while others look really intense
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