The first thing I focused on this year was teaching Expectations and Procedures in the art room. This seems to be the toughest challenge for me as I am not a very organized person when it comes to the thought process so I might start on one topic then jump to another and forget something in between. Understand? My main concerns were keeping students in their seats, working quietly, and how to supply materials. Being my fourth year teaching, I'm just now starting to figure out how to organize where the students have optimal learning time and I have less stress time. It's still a work in progress though. This game board is one way to manage behavior. Each class has a game piece and each time I catch all of the students in that class following directions, I will move their game piece forward a space. When their game piece lands under one of the prizes at the top, they earn that prize. The prizes are treasure box, 10-minute game time, free art time, etc. It seems to be working pretty well so far.
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This was a gluing project that I had my younger students do to see where their gluing skills were. One of my pet peeves in the art room is when children use too much glue. I borrowed the phrase, "A dot, a dot, a dot will do. More than that is too much glue." That and I emphasize the smaller the better.
The kiddos love manipulating things with their hands and I wanted to see how creative they could get by playing with colored yarn. I really try to emphasize the Primary Colors just to get them ingrained in their brain early. The kids came up with fish, eyes, and other interesting designs with the yarn. It was a simple filler for after an Expectations and Procedures lesson.
The first project I had my 5th graders do was a lesson I borrowed from Deep Space Sparkle where the students drew St. Basil's Cathedral and learned some facts about it.
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