Christmas Trees Up Close

This was a super easy and cute holiday project my 1st grade made.  

3rd Grade Autumn Trees

This project was a happy accident... I did a project similar to this a couple of years ago and liked it so much I thought I'd try it again.  But, being at a new school, I'm forgetting that I don't have all of the same supplies I had at my old school.  I didn't realize that I didn't have leaf stamps like I used on the last project.  So instead we drew, colored, and cut them out.  It took much longer, but I loved the results even more than the last time I did this project! 

Happy Fall!

Wacky Hair Designs

Fifth graders had fun drawing these Wacky Hair Designs.  

Radial Leaf Designs

Fifth graders used oil pastels and watercolor paints to create these radial leaf designs.  I love adding sparks of the season throughout the school!

Van Gogh Inspired Sunflowers

 Here are a few 4th grade Van Gogh inspired sunflower.  We used marbleized construction paper, black glue and oil pastels.

Adding grades 7-12...my first 9 weeks.

Before starting at Continental I hadn't worked with high school students for 8 years.  I recently finished my first nine weeks as a K-12 art teacher.  It was a huge adjustment adding grades 7-12 to my daily schedule.  Here's some of what my students produced our first nine weeks:

This project was call "Two-Toned Drawing".  Student could choose almost whatever they wanted as their subject, they drew it on two different colored pieces of charcoal paper.  We worked on proportion, value and blending techniques.

This is an example of Art 1's first project.  This project was very basic and it helped me figure out the level each student was at.  It also helped me learn what type of craftsmanship students would put into their project.

Here are a few examples of Art 1's Value Grid, Self-Portrait Drawings.  I think that many student's surprised themselves at how much their drawings looked like them.    

A new beginning...

I worked all summer long between two classrooms going through, organizing, arranging, ordering, and re-arranging.  We've been through almost four weeks of school and I think I have whats starting to feel like my new home away from home.  Here are a few pictures of my new elementary classroom...I'm still working on the high school room. :)

This is what the kids see when they walk in the door.

My teacher corner.

My Hicksville wall of fame (artwork from my former students).

The view from my desk.

 From the back side of the room.

The back side of the room is lined with bulletin boards.

 Of course I put my "I can't" bulletin board up.

 With each project we have a "Feature Artist".

 This idea cam from Hicksville's new art teacher.  When kids get a little extra time after a project they can draw on note cards that have a pre drawn line on them.  The students have to create a picture incorporating the line.  If it looks amazing, it is put on the "Noodle Doodles" wall of fame.

 Our classes behavior chart.

Our current projects board.

 A reminder to the students to make their project as detailed as the bacon-double cheeseburger.

 My favorite part of the classroom.  This has been such a great asset to the classroom.  I don't have to constantly remind the kids what colors we are using for particular projects.  All I do now is point to the board and say look for the "Primary" color family.  

 This is our dry marker monster box.  Anytime we have a dried out marker the students put it in the box instead of throwing it away.  Thanks to my niece Presley for helping me make this. ;)

 A reminder for students to have their names on their project before they put in on the drying rack.

 Two of my best classroom management tools.  The timer which goes off just before class is over reminding the kids to put their supplies away and get ready to go.  Also the sharpened pencils container, students never have to waist time and make noise sharpening pencils.

 A cute idea from pinterest!

  My little sink area.