tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65718325260705840622024-02-18T23:19:55.007-05:00RNE Art BlogMrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-69080879748689863792019-01-25T15:37:00.000-05:002019-01-25T15:37:13.164-05:005th Grade Jungles! Mixed Media Reductive Printmaking with Oil Pastel and Paint!One of the big projects this year for our 5th graders is to make a reductive print. I'm never totally happy how these come out, and this year I decided to walk back to the beginning of my career, when I tackled jobs that were huge and unwieldy and sucked all the air out of my body. I pulled out a lesson about Henri Rousseau; students would print a jungle background, research jungle plants and animals, draw both on different pieces of paper, paint and embellish with oil pastel, and then make them into bas relief layers by putting rolls of paper beneath each level. It was kinda cool to see it all come together. Took a while but the kids loved it. Nearly everyone said that they never dreamed that the pieces would come together to look as good as they did--lots of pride in their work!<br />
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First, we talked about Rousseau--that he was self-taught, worked as a customs agent, and that he told people he fought in the jungles of Mexico, and saw all these wild animals. In reality, he spent a lot of time at the botanical gardens sketching plants, and at the zoo, sketching the animals.<br />
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The plants and animals that show up in his paintings are sometimes incongruous with where they live in actuality, and size is a decision made with artistic license (personally, I just want to see a guy riding a tiger, playing the ukulele, in real life).<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Beginning with a reductive print, students followed up with an underpainting for their background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Adding the background features helped to show depth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Students followed their underpaintings with oil pastel embellishments on the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Looking at real jungle plants, they drew, painted, and then applied </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">oil pastel on strips of paper</span><span style="font-size: small;"> that later would be cut out </span><span style="font-size: small;">and used as a first layer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Testing out the look of the animal on the background, before assembly</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The finished products were amazing. Students cut 1/2 " strips of paper and rolled them around a marker to make rolls to place in between layers. They situated their plants and then decided where their animals would go. Like Rousseau, some of them took artistic license and made animals that don't actually live in the jungle. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Look at how clean these paints are. It pays <br />to clean them up. They get treated like<br />they're as important as they are!</i></td></tr>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Materials Make the Class </u><b> </b>(pun intended)<br />
When I first started teaching I'd have loved to have a magic wand to make it easy to get materials out to the kids and then get them back, quickly and neatly. I'd still actually like to have a magic wand, but even without it, I can get the supplies out and back in pretty decent time. Call it organization, motion study, or laziness, but I don't like to put in extra time/work unless I'm forced to.<br />
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Many years of learning how to get stuff out and back has given me some pretty good ideas of what I can make a kid do in the housekeeping front. It's also had the added benefit of letting me go home instead of staying at work till 6 every evening, because my students have already done so much of the prep work! Also, when the supplies look good, they get treated well, also. It's efficient, and keeps things in good shape. If you want to have students respect your stuff, keep materials clean, orderly and ready.<br />
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Most folks know I'm an organizational freak. It's really self-preservation; the less I have to do, the more time I have to teach. Front loading is the way to make your days less crazy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I never move materials on the supply shelf around from year to year. Students need to know that certain things can always be easily found, in the same place they've always been. Routine is the key to keeping things flowing. Stuff for the littles is lower and easier for them to access than the stuff I don't want them to use--everything is within the reach of a kid who's old enough to use it. My adult-sized scissors are placed too high, for example, for a kindergartener to reach.</i></span></td></tr>
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Keeping things at the ready is one great way to give yourself those extra minutes that can make or break the success of a class each day. If supplies are always in the same place, I don't have to worry about whether or not students know where to find things, or how to get them put away quickly. They do it all, and fast. They've been trained since they were kindergarteners. If they do a good job, I don't have to take time at the end of the day to get it all ready again. The kids have done it themselves. Give them as much responsibility for materials as you can.<br />
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<b><u>Front Loading Materials to Get Them Out Fast</u></b><br />
"Front loading" is the way to get the most bang for your buck in passing out materials later. The more you have ready for immediate use, the faster setup can happen when class begins. If you use tee-shirts to protect clothing, have them folded and stacked in a bin so that you can grab the needed amount for a table--in my case, four at a time--without having to unclump them.<br />
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Every student learns how to fold a shirt MY way when they are in kindergarten (ha ha, I promise I'm not a meanie! If they do it right, shirts are perfectly ready for distribution in the next class). I even get the bonus of the shirts being right-side-out. I'm pretty sure there are some moms out there who think I'm cool just based on the fact that their kids know how to fold their clothes.<br />
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Newspapers are folded and kept in a white dishpan-type bin, always in the same place. Have a central location for supplies that are being used by the specific class you're prepping for. I have a round table in the middle of my room that I put revolving supplies on; whatever the current class is, this is where non-every-day supplies go.<br />
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<b><u>Distributing Materials in Less </u></b><b><u>Than Five Minutes: Class Startup</u></b><br />
Let's make the assumption the kids are going to paint. At the beginning of class, students come in and put their heads down, and show me they are ready for class to begin. We then sit up straight and take two deep breaths, so we are awake and alert. I have a general question and answer to review from the last week, then I give out information--whether that's to teach something new, show a PowerPoint, or demonstrate something. I try to make that as short as possible.<br />
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When we are ready to begin our work, I have the helper table to come to me, to get what I need them to distribute. They are trained early on not to give each person individually whatever it is--rather, to count how many people are at the table, then put that amount in the middle so the students can get it for themselves. This applies to paper, newspapers, tee shirts, brushes, anything that we have to get out to everyone. While the helper table kids are passing out stuff, I'm bringing the big water buckets to each table. It takes just about two minutes to get an entire classroom decked out for creating. When you can grab four newspapers or tee shirts at a time without having to unclump things to figure out how many are in front of you, you can have a kid take it to a table in seconds. Four kids, six tables for the majority of my classes...everything gets out in a flash.<br />
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On days that we need glue, scissors, or markers for special projects, the students also pass out the colored bins from the back counter. At the end of class, helpers return the bins and any items I think will be disruptive for individual students to put away, like pencil bins or marker bins.<br />
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<b><u>Clean Up: Think Ahead</u></b><br />
Stuff like palettes, paper for a collage we might be making, drawing paper in a particular size, embellishments, or anything we don't use all the time go on the supply table. Below is mine, a round table in the middle of the room.. Setup is always the same. The newspaper is always in the same place when we need them. At the end of class, they have to fold them back with the folded side turned upward, to make grabbing them easy. I can grab four at a time and give them to a helper, and they can pass out to all tables in about 45 seconds.<br />
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At cleanup time, I have the students bring their palettes back to the round table in the middle of the room. I have a sink waiting with water already in it, so I can just slip the palettes in there. To get them to the sink from the table, I just turn them to face one another and carry them in one big unit.<br />
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<b><u>Classroom Setup</u></b><br />
Classroom setup should be thought through for mobility of students and for you being able to move around to facilitate. A few years ago I put my tables at an angle to make it so students didn't really have to turn much to see white board; I got tired of seeing kids who were listening but not looking because their seats didn't face me. The only problem was that it was harder to get around the classroom, and students were closer to one another than I wanted. It made classroom management harder.<br />
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Now the tables are all in one direction. I like this much better. I have to be diligent to remind students to turn to see me, but it's worth the effort. Ease of movement and keeping kids out of each others' faces has made all the difference in noise levels and off-task behavior. If a student isn't facing me during the lecture part of the class, I have them turn all the way around on their stool till they are. That's a non-negotiable.<br />
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<b><u>Helpers and Seating Charts</u></b><br />
Like most Art teachers, I have a helper table each week. I keep track of who is the helper team on my seating chart. I put a hashmark in the center of the table color on the day each table is helper. The table with the least number of hashmarks is the helper this week. This is nice for my subs, too, so they don't have to just arbitrarily pick out a helper team. It goes in order of the color wheel--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Larger classes have more tables, so we add white, gray, and even turn the round table into brown table, if need be.<br />
If you look at the above seating chart, you may notice that boys don't sit next to boys or across from them, and girls don't either. It cuts down on talking if they are separated a bit--they sit diagonally opposite. I only change that up when there are more of one gender than another in a class. I also try to sit "little mamas" with kids who need encouragement or have a hard time keeping up. Students who have a natural bent toward nurturing are great at helping their neighbors along, without actually doing their work for them. I love when I see a student motivating another student, or trying to explain how they're supposed to be going. If I know a kid doesn't speak English, I always seat them next to a student who speaks their language. If we don't have anybody, Google Translate is my best friend. We've had a lot of laughs over trying to get information to one another!<br />
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Finding your way in the organization of your class and figuring out the most efficient way to get materials distributed makes all the difference in the world. Less stress, more work happening with kids, and everything in its place. Even in the midst of the fray, everybody knows the procedures. It makes for a happy classroom!Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-52647541889154268272018-08-17T11:02:00.001-04:002018-08-21T12:01:51.709-04:00Classroom Management for Kindergarteners, and 2nd Week Goodness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am so excited about some of the stuff I'm doing this year. Yes, I changed the way the classroom is set up; that's already made some differences in movement in the room. I also am heavily enforcing the "get in the zone" mentality--listen to some quiet music, limit chatting, and find your space within the artwork you're doing. So far, so good!<br />
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I am noticing, though, that this year the little kinders seem to have an even harder time keeping themselves together for a whole 45 minutes. They aren't used to having to sit in one place for so long, and they are so very curious about everything. They HAVE to make comment, they are so excited to be a part of such an interesting place! But all those wonderful inquisitive parts of their learning brains mean that it's super-hard to get information to them, get them started on a project, and then follow directions to completion. What to do? How to get them quiet and still enough to listen and then make stuff?<br />
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<b>QUIET CRITTERS</b>. All I can say is, AMAZING. Cassie Stephens, art teacher extraordinaire, talked about these guys in one of her podcasts. She got it from one of the kindergarten teachers in her school. She made some. Worked like a charm. Chill, quiet kinders, working like they were focused college students. Wow! So---I made some of my own. I hit up the Michaels that is down the street from my school (thank you for the 20% teacher discount, love ya). Six fluffy huge pompoms later, I was back at school hot gluing on googly eyes, pipe cleaner antennae, and foam feet. I made enough Quiet Critters for each of my kinder tables (I have 8 tables in my room but only use 6 for the wee ones). I couldn't wait to get them to my kiddos the next day.<br />
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WOW. That's all I can say. It was exactly as Cassie described it.<br />
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When I had given instruction to my littles, I suddenly turned, hearing a sort of scratching coming from a white box on my front counter.<br />
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I peered inside and listened closely. "Oh!" I cried, "They're awake! The Quiet Critters want to meet you!"<br />
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I pulled one out and listened to it, up to my ear. "This is Pablo! He wants to go sit with the blue team!" I brought the Quiet Critter out and began to explain that Quiet Critters love people, but they are very shy, and afraid of noise. They love to come sit with my students. but only when they are very very quiet. As I was telling this, you could have heard a pin drop. Every kid was silently hoping that there would be a Quiet Critter coming to their table. As I got to the blue table, I pointed out that they had been so quiet that Pablo asked to go sit with them. I asked the class if they felt they could earn a Quiet Critter, too. Nodding heads. Clasped hands. Wishing little people. I began pulling out one after the other, putting them up to my ear and listening to them tell me what table they wanted to go to. The kids were rapt. I reminded my little friends that any sound would scare them and they would ask me to put them back in their home.<br />
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Y'all, we were PAINTING. But my classroom was completely silent through the whole thing. 😲They cleaned up<b> silently</b>. 😍 They folded their newspapers and tee shirts silently as I modeled how to do that, so they'd remember. They got a piece of free draw paper to practice the lines they had learned. I'm tellin' ya, it was NIRVANA as a kindergarten Art teacher. 😄<br />
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I'm never going back. Cassie, thank you!!! And y'all, try it. It's amazing. And wonderful. And peaceful. And yes, I did use it on a fifth grade class yesterday, and they were totally IN. I don't think it's an all the time thing with the big kids, but oh---those littles. And maybe, here and there, those big uns, too. Yay for classroom management!Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-31460330722991496552018-08-10T12:59:00.000-04:002018-08-10T13:01:05.282-04:00Classroom at the Ready!I love the beginning of school. Prepping is such fun--I get to make Art just for my kiddos, and show off a bit. I'm pretty enamored of my door and entry area.<br />
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I get so stoked about the kids coming and seeing everything--I really feel like they are more excited about Art when it looks inviting. In the weeks before the kids come, I get my room looking all fun and exciting. Take a look at my setup this year:<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Above: Drying rack and paint area. The cart has pre-cut paper of various sizes on the top part so I always have the size I need in at least one class amount, so I don't start a lesson without what I need. Nothing worse than having to cut paper right there as you are talking to the students, because you forgot to do it prior to their coming to class!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I like to put up what the grades are doing, with standards. Info posters for line and color theory are here now, as we are going through the rules this week and there's no real Art being made. I believe rules and procedures are so important! The colored bins are filled with items we commonly use, so that they can be passed out quickly. Each table has their own corresponding color bin of glue, scissors, and markers. Likewise, I have small colored bins with sharpened pencils and separate ones for erasers, for easy distribution. Plus, I can keep track of the erasers--kids who love to stab them get outed pretty fast, since they're hurting their own stuff! I can check at the end of class and, well, you know how it goes. However, if we have true problems with it, I have a checkout system for erasers. More on that another time.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Above you can see the teacher sink and organizational space. To the left are the gray drawers for the K, 1, and 2 grades; 3rd grade flat work goes in the shelves right next to the drawers. I have another set of big drawers for 4th and 5th. You can see the magazine holders that house the sketchbooks for each class, on the shelves to the right. I have the students make their own sketchbooks, and they are stored on the shelves for easy access. They get them to take home at the end of the year. </span><br />
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Below: I opened up the room a bit by moving the tables off of the angles they've been in for a number of years. The angles were great for having kids not have their backs to me when I'm at the board; however, there was a real trade off in movement around the room. It was tight in places, and after a couple of years I got tired of trying to get between tables. Having them in straight rows gives more room for circulation. I also placed two of the tables end to end (you can kind of see them in the second picture, and also below), as one of them only gets used with my largest classes. This opened up the room further.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">These are the two tables I put together to open up the room</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">.</span><br />
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I can't take too much credit for this. I got the idea from a Pinterest pin I saw (I'm sorry I can't remember who did it--I'd love to give them credit). But the hours spent putting it together were all me! The one below was logical to be on the opposite side of the doorway...gave me some balance and let me use the neutral paint squares.</div>
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Those first days of school are so precious--seeing students after a whole summer and how much they've grown (what do they eat, vegetables from Chernobyl?). The new littles come in--how kindergarten teachers do what they do is amazing. They are so inquisitive. Love them!<br />
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I've got lots in store for my students this year. It's always exciting to get things rolling. We will be working in 2-D and 3-D, in all kinds of ways--can't wait to get it all rolling. In fact, next week pretty much all classes will be up to their elbows in paint or ink. Yay! Let's get this party started!</div>
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Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-1881912812195801582017-04-20T14:16:00.000-04:002017-04-20T14:16:43.325-04:00Fabulous Art with Fabulous Kids!First Graders rocked the house with their shape self-portraits. We looked at the Swiss artist Paul Klee and learned about his life...he was an art teacher, a poet, and a violinist! Definitely a man of the Arts. We looked at a variety of abstract and realistic artworks, and even played a game of identifying which works were abstract, and which were realistic. We looked over Klee's work and decided he was quite abstract. A discussion of lines, shapes, and artwork titles helped us understand what we were looking at. Sometimes a title means everything. <br />
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When we looked at "Head of a Man," we knew we were about to do something interesting. Students were given a plastic bag full of tag board shapes, and had to make our self-portrait using only shapes. It was such fun to see how everybody's work came out. We first drew with pencil, then outlined them with marker, and then colored them with crayons that matched the color of the marker they used. Students had lots of fun making their faces all kinds of colors. Some students used wild colors along with their wild shapes, so we had some very interesting self-portraits! I really love this lesson. Take a look at the results:<br />
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Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-18256140139906536682016-11-17T16:48:00.000-05:002016-11-17T16:48:28.057-05:005th Grade Reductive Prints, and Drawing ChallengesIt's feast or famine with me. I don't know how some folks manage to blog all the time. Do they not have life stuff that happens? Do they sleep? I'm looking at going to our Thanksgiving break, and I'm determined to post some stuff that we've done this semester. Gearing up to start Choice- Based Art in the second semester, we are doing all kinds of challenges so that we've used our various art supplies/mediums prior to me letting them loose with the whole Art Room at their disposal. <br />
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The first major challenge after the drawing challenge of our sketchbook covers was to make reductive foam prints. I showed them a PowerPoint on intaglio printing, and discussed how Styrofoam printmaking is sort of like intaglio, since we scratch our image into our plates. If you're interested in the PowerPoint, you can email me at <a href="mailto:paschal@fultonschools.org">paschal@fultonschools.org</a>. <br />
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We started out by doing a mind map in our sketchbooks. Given a choice of 6-7 words, students developed a four-pronged mind map that had four legs/words and led to at least four degrees of separation from the beginning word they chose. Their choices were: courage, laughter, honesty, morning, curious, quiet, green. Here's an example of one student's mind map:<br />
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If they wanted to, they could have more than 4 words off from the original word, and they could go more than 4 degrees of separation. This student chose to make her print about clothes. </div>
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The students all agreed that having the mind map really made a difference in how they chose their subject matter for their prints. This was a great way to get them to think in new directions and to choose something that had some real meaning to them. It made for some interesting choices.<br />
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Once they got their ideas solidified, they drew a picture of their planned print on a half-sheet of copy paper. The foam plates we were using were 6" x 12," so they it helped them to know what size their picture would be for their print. I reminded them to keep from making too many little details, as they did not translate well onto the printing plate later on. They also had to make sure that they made any words backwards, as they would be printed forwards when they pulled the print. Most of them used tracing paper to make their drawings, if they wanted to put words on their plates. I tried to discourage it, though, as it's so easy to make the mistake of putting one letter backwards...<br />
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Once they got their drawing finished, I gave them a foam plate and a ballpoint pen. They put their drawing on top of the plate and then traced, with a lot of pressure, onto the plate. Afterward, they went back and retraced their lines on the plate, so that it would be deep enough to keep from getting filled with ink. <br />
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They began their printing process. I like to use phone books and catalogs to put the printing plates on when they are inking; it keeps the table from being a crazy mess. Once they finish inking, they have to turn the page for the next person. <br />
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I set up two colors on one side of the table, two colors on the other side, and a third color at a different table. Kids go up to the colors they need, ink their plates at the inking table, and then take the plate back to their own table and bray it on the paper there. It keeps things from getting wildly messy. They're responsible for keeping their own area cleaned up, and they get points off for lots of smudges.<br />
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When they have inked their plate once, they cut away anything that they want to stay that color, or they cut out things they want to make another color--either way works. Below is an example of how it works. <br />
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Here are some of the works the 5th graders produced. </div>
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The kids did a great job. They worked so hard to get good, clean prints. Afterward, we had a gallery walk--the students took their best print, their original drawing, and their mind map and put it neatly on the table top where they sat, and set up a space for their peers to come look at the process they used to make their prints. They were all impressed with each others' work and we had some great conversation about the process, the difficulties, and the rewards of developing a plan for their artwork before executing it. </div>
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Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-38150207878815400012016-08-04T18:36:00.006-04:002016-08-04T18:39:54.094-04:00Back to School, Just Like All of Y'all....Here we are again! I loved stepping into Choice Based Art last year with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders; I'm going to do it again this year, although I'm tweaking some stuff. In the next week or so I'll put up some results from last year (forgive me for not doing this at the appropriate time--you know how that burnout thing is, right?) so you can know how it turned out. Maybe as a teaser for this year--stay tuned!!<br />
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Here are the bulletin boards. Compare to last year if you like--you'll notice they're once again teaching tools, same themes, but a little bit of new material. My fave is the Elements of Art board--I dig the picture frames. I'm sure I'm not the only Art teacher who gets in the zone making all the cool bulletin boards and posters. While all my colleagues are stressing over room prep and class lists, I'm earbuds in, rocking out (sometimes dancing--don't judge), and making Art for my kids. I'll post some pix of my room later.<br />
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The landscape, still life, and portrait boards are a little too stock for my wild-at-heart artistic self, but I want my kids to see work by Artists we are going to study. Otherwise, I'd just fill the boards with my own fun work. But you know how it is, we actually have to do our job and teach about all those folks. I used some of the same works as last year...I really dig the diversity in the portrait set, though. All those Artists are faves of mine. Reppin' the ladies a bit, too. I wonder if I need to go Guerilla Girls on my school this year. Hmmm.Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-21151527185003785262016-04-27T10:58:00.000-04:002016-04-27T11:34:19.967-04:00We Have Been Making, Building, Creating, Learning!I can't say how much excitement Choice-Based Art has been this year. I am astounded at the work my students have done and how much learning and excitement letting them drive their own learning has changed my viewpoint on autonomy in the Art Room. This has been an amazing year. <br />
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Every project began with research. Students had to choose a theme or concept they wanted to convey; they had to think about something they cared about and how they might portray it in an artwork.<br />
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Once they had figured out what they wanted to accomplish in their artwork, they built a complex design plan through mapping it in their sketchbook. They began to research on the iPads and computers in the classroom; they could also go to the media center to use the computers there, or bring their own devices. They had to come up with at least one supporting reference picture, but they could have up to three. They uploaded them to a Google Drive account and I retrieved them and printed them, and they were added to the sketchbook maps. Once they had their theme, materials list, explanation of their inspiration, reference picture, and layout, they followed up with a paragraph that explained what their underlying meaning was to their planned artwork, and how they planned to get the piece done. Students could choose any materials I had available, or even bring in their own materials. My office has been chock-full of extra stuff kids have brought in! We had some discussion about their projects, and as I looked through their sketchbook maps, I made notes for them to remind them of what we had discussed for their projects as they began.<br />
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Here are some of the works in progress:<br />
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Many students are finished and it's time to reflect on their work. I will post finished products in the next couple of weeks. I'm so proud of all they have done. They have more than risen to the challenge. </div>
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We began our school year working on the Elements of Art, and how to research on our iPads. We took a "field trip" to the hall outside my room to study the Elements and Principals bulletin boards, then headed to the media center to learn about safe searches, best practices in research, and effective websites for student inquiry. Students chose the Element of Art they wanted to work on, researched images for inspiration, and then chose the medium they wanted to use to depict their Element. Some students chose to illustrate more than one medium. Afterward we did a quick gallery walk to see what everyone did (they were so amazed at each others' work!) and then they took a bit of time to reflect in writing what they had learned. I have Art Standards checklists for them to check off the date when they meet a standard each quarter, so that was also part of the activity.<br />
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In preparation for beginning our Choice-Based Art Studios, we have some activities using various media; the kids are finding out how their art supplies behave. Our first set of activities was Drawing Around the Room. In Drawing Around the Room, students worked with 7 different drawing mediums: drawing pencils, colored pencils, markers, oil pastels, chalk pastels, crayon, and charcoal. Stations were set up at each table, and students rotated in groups of four to test each medium. Cards with definitions of techniques were at each station, and students were required to write the definition before trying the medium. Next, they worked with the medium and tried out various techniques. They were encouraged to experiment and see how they liked each one. Afterward, they reflected on their favorites and least favorites in a writing exercise. <br />
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We are now in Sculpt Around the Room, which is the same sort of experiential activities, except I am not letting them move around the room--I am bringing them the supplies and activities in big boxes--we lost too much time in transition with the drawing studios. With Sculpt Around the Room, students have a full 45 minute class period to work on their sculptures. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boxes, supplies, so much stuff! But so worth it.</td></tr>
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Prepping for this was pretty big. I was so glad to finally get it put together! Cynthia had noted on her website that her kids didn't want the projects that weren't pretty--nobody wanted to take them home--so I made sure the paper projects, for example, were monochromatic with lots of size and color variety so they could make it look really good. <br />
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I totally stole a beautiful paper sculpture poster idea from Sarah Brooks, once again right off of Pinterest. Thank goodness for Pinterest. Reinventing the wheel is over. Isn't this gorgeous?!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perfect for giving inspiration--and reminders that they already know so much of this already.</td></tr>
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In each box are materials for a different sculpting project--wire sculpture, a paper village, a mobile, modeling clay monsters, and a relief sculpture using straws. As the weeks are going by, the artworks are getting better and better. They have the full class period to work, and they are becoming more and more confident as they continue to get new boxes of materials. <br />
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It's been so much fun to watch the kids get the hang of working together on projects--the group sculptures are getting better and better. And the individual sculptures are improving as the students get ideas and inspiration from one another.<br />
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It's only a few weeks before we are making Choice-Based Art in earnest. We will have a Painting Around the Room set of activities, and then we are off. Can't wait! I will introduce sketchbook mapping for preparing to make an artwork that is a WOW piece--a Work of Wonder--on which students will work for several class periods, on their own steam, and without my telling them what to do. I become a facilitator and mentor as they learn the Habits of Mind that help good artists create effective artworks. This is so exciting. As usual, stay tuned!<br />
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<br />Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-21779737092751124882015-10-13T15:56:00.002-04:002015-10-13T16:13:47.278-04:00Teachable ToolsThis year I started out strong on my bulletin boards. Every year I do a bunch of pretty ones--they are nice to have when you don't have any art to display yet. But this year I wanted pretty <em>and</em> useful, and so I set up teaching tools on my bulletin boards. Take a look:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Elements and Principles boards were really helpful with 3rd-5th grades, as their first projects had to do with Elements and Principles, and discussion was then followed up with a trip to the media center and the beginnings of research. It was so successful that I am planning on making Elements and Principles boards every year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Basics boards were put on backgrounds of primary colors, just one more basic that gets a rubber stamp on it in a sort of subtle way. I liked being able to share the artists with my kids, too.</td></tr>
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I liked the idea of getting the kids into the halls to see the boards, and felt that it would be good to be able to get them out of the classroom. It was an opportunity to share the stuff we are supposed to hit no matter what, and to let them be a catalyst to finding examples of these concepts around the school. Study the bulletin boards, then go find examples, like a scavenger hunt. <br />
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<br />Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-19169489757583189772015-09-23T10:00:00.000-04:002015-09-23T10:00:12.550-04:00New Stuff for the New YearWhat a busy start to the new year! It's going great but I feel like it's already blowing by. I changed up a few things in my room this year, getting it ready to start Choice-Based Art classes with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. I'm excited about letting the kids loose with the materials as they drive their own learning. Our STEAM initiative has morphed a bit--rather than having STEAM classes that meet as a separate entity from our other classes, they are now attached to the grade levels' science and social studies classes. Incorporating PBL (Project Based Learning) into teaching has been a big push at our school, and it's a perfect mix with our STEAM classes. I feel like I'm living in buzz-word land some days! <br />
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So many students have begged me to do Engineering projects that I am going to give an engineering project to each grade level at some point in the year. Last year's classes were so much fun and the kids got so much out of it! We'll tag it "Engineering Design" so that it meets criteria for Art as well as Science. Gotta love that mix. I'll take it any day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The research center has a great mix of books, to use for inspiration<br />
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With the startup of Choice-Based Art in my classroom for my older students, I've tweaked my classroom a bit to handle movement between studios. Got rid of some extraneous furniture (including a set of shelves under which a boatload of termites were happily munching), and set things up to handle the storage of works in progress. I've also got a research center now, and students will plan their projects using books, computers, and iPads. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I set my easel up so students can see a painting changing. When I began,<br />
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I really love the new stools we just got. They take up so much less space, are waaaaayyyy quieter than chairs, and allow students some freedom of movement that they did not have before. Many of my students like to stand while they work, and it's way easier to stick them under the table if they want to stand.<br />
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Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-25901608800929236552014-11-14T17:47:00.000-05:002014-11-14T17:47:36.202-05:00STEAM Questions, AnsweredSome folks have wondered what has gone on in our school, with the STEAM initiative. Our school was one of the first in the Fulton County cohorts that went charter. We decided that it would be a good idea to have a destination for our teaching, like multiple intelligences, International Baccalaureate, or one of those sorts of things. We chose STEAM because it fit so well into what we were already doing. <br />
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Every teacher is doing some sort of Project Based Learning in their classroom, including the specialists. Some of us teach STEAM classes, as well; I'm teaching engineering and our music teacher, Jessica Weingart, has a theatre class. STEAM classes meet for 45 minutes a day, each day, for 7 weeks.<br />
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Students use all kinds of technology in my classes, using iPads for research, photography, videography, and building digital portfolios. They present their findings at the end of a project, using document cameras, projectors, and of course the ever-present iPads. <br />
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From building kites to making automobile prototypes, my Engineering Design students have learned all about different types of energy, the laws of motion, and how to make things go. They are currently building robots that draw. Each project is documented and photographed; students conduct interviews and compile data to make decisions on what they are designing. It's been a terrific ride and they--are loving it. Me, too!</div>
Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-30211356453709379922014-11-14T17:30:00.004-05:002014-11-14T17:34:32.939-05:00Teching Out in Art!We have been really going for broke with the iPads in our classroom. I like to assess my students' learning without it being a stressor--how fun is it to have to take a test, when you could be building or making something cool? So we have gotten into the realm of paper slide videos. <br />
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Students were given a topic--in this case, color--and allowed to explore on the iPads. Once they'd done some research on color theory and different color schemes, they put together drawings that illustrated their new knowledge in a sort of a slide show. But rather than letting the computer set up slides with music and editability, students did a one-take video in which one person held the iPad to record, one or two persons narrated, and one person changed the drawings out. <br />
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It made for some seriously charming videos, and we loved putting them together. The students had a great time, and they got to show me what they knew. Teamwork was the name of the game, and those smarties put together some pretty entertaining paper slide videos. Winning, all the way around.<br />
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#paperslidevideo #technologyinart #ipadsinart #artclasstechnology #elementaryarttechnology #elementaryartMrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-45873569840077223332014-09-19T11:38:00.000-04:002014-09-19T11:38:56.613-04:00STEAM is Here and It's Wonderful!The school year has started off with such excitement as we bring the STEAM model aboard at Roswell North. I'm lucky to have a 5th grade class of 20 students every day, learning about physics and making all kinds of neat things. We have launched rockets and collected data about distance, mean, and range, and we've speculated about how to change things like aerodynamics and trajectory to make our rockets go further.<br />
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Our latest project has been kite building, and we're investigating how best to get lift to push our kites into the sky. What is the best design when there is little wind? When there is a lot of wind? How can we construct a kite that will not only go high, but survive if it is really windy, or if we crash? What are the weaknesses of our materials? What is our point of failure, and how can we improve what we have built? What does success really mean as we are learning about the qualities of a good kite?<br />
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The students have been doing a great job of building and documenting their work. We've learned about the Engineering Design Process and why it is important for us to approach our projects with this model. I love hearing the students using their physics vocabulary as they work on their designs and try them out. This has been such a great process for us all!<br />
Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-25314550756133880962014-07-30T10:40:00.001-04:002014-07-30T10:40:38.132-04:00Around the Corner--Full STEAM Ahead!Hope you've had a great summer. As we see it wind to a close I am, as usual, excited about what's coming up. RNE became a STEAM school this summer--meaning that we are going to make our school focus Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. Of course you know I'm going to be in the thick of things; can I ever NOT be in the midst of it all?! <br />
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I'm working hard on an Engineering class for our STEAM time. That's a dedicated 45 minutes daily to a single class that is in the STEAM focus. Some teachers are teaching about gardening, others are building bridges, some are working on recycling projects and art made from recycled things. Everybody has their own spin to the STEAM concept, and every class is focusing on the Project Based Learning method. It's fun to see what everybody's getting together. Me, I'm going to have my students designing cars, building kites, seeing if they can change the speed of marbles moving through a maze, and using motors to make robots. Can't wait to see it all come about. I'll keep you posted!Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-17947909877926736912013-12-17T07:49:00.001-05:002013-12-17T07:49:59.118-05:00Paper Planet Installations<br />
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5th grade is still rocking the Engineering bent. We've been looking at installation artists Sandy Skoglund, Niki de Ste. Phalle, and Simon Rodia. Installations are artworks that involve the viewer--often one can walk right into the art, as in the case of Niki de Ste. Phalle's huge sculptures that are placed in public areas for people to walk through or even climb. Niki's work was in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens a few years ago. Using such ideas as a jumping off point, fifth grade students have designed and built small installations, almost like maquettes, for viewers to enjoy. They followed up their designs with stories about their work.<br />
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School started off in zoom mode--students jumped right in and we headed into still life in 5th grade, focusing on complementary colors and getting a good composition with thoughtful overlap of items, use of a light source, and taking care in craftsmanship as they painted what would become their sketchbook cover. Every grade painted for their sketchbook project, focusing on line, shape, pattern, texture, or color theory. <br />
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I'm very excited about what is coming as we move into fall; my 4th and 5th graders are beginning to experience a new component to my art classes--engineering. We will be using the engineering process to design, build, and improve on a variety of projects that give students a chance to learn about what different kinds of engineers do: mechanical, aeronautical, materials, civil, and more. Fifth grade has already started its first project, looking at the James Webb Space Telescope that will be launched in 2018 to look at galaxies many, many light years away. <br />
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The challenge for our 5th graders: to make a model version of the solar canopy that will unfold from the sides of the telescope after it leaves the rocket. Their charge, then is to craft their 12" x 30" canopy from tinfoil in such a way that it can fold and unfold from a "packing crate" without tearing. After studying the JWS Telescope, they have begun developing the canopy that their teams have designed. Once built, they will test, present to the class, and then go back to improve their designs, just like real engineers do when working on a project. Stay tuned--there are plenty of photos coming!Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-39679318006253588102013-05-17T10:58:00.000-04:002013-05-17T14:52:21.818-04:00FREE ART FRIDAY MASHED UP WITH ALIVE AFTER FIVE! RNE'S KIDLANTA ROCKS!Okay, so I've talked about this but I want to recap because we have been so successful with this <strong>Free Art Friday</strong> initiative. Thursday, May 16 was a big day for RNE at Roswell’s monthly “Alive After Five” community get-together in historic Roswell. Students had the opportunity to find the artworks they had made during Artist Day—I and Gina Steffensen took the public art that students made and put it all around the Alive After Five area. Many artworks were in plain sight, while other pieces were subtly placed for maximum surprise. All of the artworks were found and taken, some moved around, some pocketed. Each artwork had instructions on the back, and I was delighted to have some folks tweet their pictures with the found art! <br />
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On Artist Day, every student attended an activity called “Public Art”, where they learned about Atlanta artists who make small artworks to share with the public. Once a month, they collaborate to make “Free Art Friday” happen; their work is put out for anyone. It’s free, usually somewhat hidden so that it’s a fun discovery, and meant to be either kept or redistributed. Artists tweet a picture that gives a hint of where one might find the artwork. Instructions with the artwork: tweet to the artists’ twitter feed with a picture of you holding the art you found. If you do, they’ll post your picture on their website. It’s a great collaborative initiative to share art with the public. When our students learned about it, they made 2” x 2” artworks to place for our own Free Art Friday at RNE on May 10--while the Atlanta artists were doing the exact same thing! <br />
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How did this come about? In March, the artist who started it—Atlanta’s “Evereman”—challenged the FCS art teachers to have their students join the initiative. I took it seriously and set up the Public Art activities for Artist Day. <br />
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Once all 1100 students had made the artworks, I and Mrs. Steffensen, our itinerant Art teacher, put instructional stickers on the back, laminated them, cut them all apart, and put magnets on the back. On Passion Day, I ran an Art Scavenger Hunt; my cluster found art I’d put out for them, then they came back and made art for Alive After Five later on in the month. Ms. Steffensen’s group made pizza magnets in their cluster, as well.<br />
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Friday, May 10 was the official Atlanta Free Art Friday. We placed 600 artworks around the school all day, in waves....students could find 4 and keep them--after that, it was up to them to let others find it, or redistribute it. Many students moved the art around for others to find. It was a terrific day--the air was electrified and everywhere you could hear students buzzing: <br />
"Did you find some?"<br />
"How many can we keep?"<br />
"I found my own!"<br />
"I found one on the ceiling!"<br />
"I moved it all around!"<br />
"I'm going to go make more!"<br />
Art was flying around the school, and everyone was excited about the prospect of doing it all over again a week later at Alive After Five in historic Roswell. I took pictures and tweeted all day long--all the findings, all the hiding places, all the success, all the excited chatter. A wave of art advocacy was sweeping the school! Atlanta artists tweeted back their excitement—no school in FCS had taken the challenge to such lengths—the students of RNE were stepping into the Atlanta art scene as a real force! The group from Passion Day had called RNE “Kidlanta”, after the artists who involve themselves monthly: Catlanta, Mariarta, Wishlanta, Ms. Atl, Everman, and others. We are officially Kidlanta, and we tweet with that name!</div>
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Thursday, May 16 was Alive After Five in Roswell. We dropped 500 pieces of art and another wave of about 30 pieces of special work done by the Passion Day cluster. All artworks were found, several people tweeted back with pictures, and students were seen all over with their parents, finding art and sharing it with others. It’s an exciting time in the Atlanta art scene and our students are right in there with the professionals! I'm taking the challenge to continue working with RNE’s Kidlanta to make public art through the summer and during the school year so that we can continue to have a presence in the Atlanta art world. Be on the lookout at Alive After Five all summer—you may find some cool art!<br />
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Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-89651841647628141722013-05-10T15:19:00.000-04:002013-05-10T15:19:44.462-04:00ART IMPACT AT ROSWELL NORTHArtist Day was April 26 this year and we took Roswell North to new heights with it. Every year, we shut the school down on one day, bring in 20 Artists and artistic groups, and circulate our 1100 students through the school to see professional artists at work--so they can see that the Arts offer an interesting vocation for those who want to do something creative! It's an amazing program and it's been going on for 21 years. Below are a few examples of Artists and their performances.<br />
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One of the highlights of the day was a jaunt into the local art scene with the two Public Art activities. Led by local artists, students got a chance to make a small piece of art to take home, and one to leave behind for RNE to participate in an initiative by Atlanta artists to share their work with the world. It's called Free Art Fridays, and once a month the metro area is the drop zone for fun and interesting pieces made by these metro artists. Our students had a great time making art to share.<br />
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They were really excited to get to send some art into the community.
All 1100 students at Roswell North got to make an art piece to take home, and one to leave for us to prep for Free Art Friday.
The Thursday before Free Art Friday was Passion Day at our school. Every teacher took a group of about 12 kids and did some sort of activity about which they were passionate. As a public artist, passing on my love for shareable art is exciting, and having 1100 works already in my possession was already a prospect that was truly happy! I took 12 students on an Art scavenger hunt; we went looking for the little artworks they and their friends had made. We took iPads with us and took pictures with the art as they found it.
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Scavenger Hunt students traveled around the school picking up art that had been "dropped"; when they had all found their specific artworks they returned to the classroom and made a bunch of art to drop at Alive After Five in Roswell for Thursday, May 16. They could use any number of art supplies--clay, wood, paint, markers, model magic, poster board, etc. Here's a sampling:
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Check out the Kidlanta on the bottom right! So cool. After they finished their session with Passion Day, every student took off with art to drop for others to find. I got to school on Free Art Friday morning and just plain bombed the school with hundreds of little artworks. I started with my own classroom doorway.
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Everywhere you looked, high and low, art was stuck to something. Free Art Friday was explained on the morning news announcements, and students were instructed to keep only four artworks, and to re-drop anything they found after that. The whole school erupted in a frenzy of finding and sharing. What a crazy, fun day.
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Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-61771634582978672372013-04-06T17:24:00.001-04:002013-04-06T17:24:24.543-04:00....And Another Thing!<span style="font-size: large;">So first grade isn't the only grade doing cool stuff. Take a look at 2nd grades' Jim Dine monoprints: </span><br />
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Don't you love Joan Miro's work? It's so colorful and fun. I love showing my students his art because they enjoy the lines and the colors, and how he's put it all together. <br />
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First grade got a great look at Miro recently and we discussed all the things we see all the time in his work. The way the lines are so organic, the way he repeats certain designs like his asterisk-looking "starry things" (I love how they describe what they see!), circles, large dots at the end of lines, geometric shapes that somehow seem organic...repetition of colors...what a fabulous way to make art!<br />
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We discussed how he was a part of the surrealist movement, and that his works are dream-like. <br />
It was fun talking about all the things we dream and how in our dreams we can fly, or dogs can talk... and so we got to talking about what sorts of mediums would be good dream mediums. And we came upon something new, that our first graders had never tried: ater-soluble oil pastels! I showed them how they worked---draw on the lines you want, fill in here and there, and then get a paintbrush and some water and go to town. Here are some of the results. Love it!<br />
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Where else are you going to find that, than in an Art classroom? Every day Art teachers challenge their students to think in new ways, solve problems, and find ways around obstacles. Art class is a soup of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. </div>
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Our first graders got a chance to talk technology recently. We began with a huge conversation about what I didn't have growing up--no microwave, no cell phone, no Internet or computers in our homes, no dvds, no iPads, iPods, iTouches, iPhones, i-anything! And oh my, we actually played outside until dark and we didn't like to be indoors. Go figure. The First graders were mystified. Did you have tv? Did you have indoor plumbing? Did you have cars? Take it easy kiddos, I'm not THAT old. My growing up years sounded like the cave days to them.</div>
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But we did get a good chance to talk about the very technologies that have occurred in their lifetimes, like the advent of the iPad and tablets. We discussed robotic arms that do surgery for doctors and robots that build cars and the role of engineering in all of the cool technology that comes our way every day. We decided that we liked the robot thing a lot--and that it would be really neat if we had our own personal robots to do things for us. What if we had a robot who would clean our room for us? Or take out the trash? Or clean the kitty litter box? I wanted a robot to clean up all the Art room messes! And so we became engineers.</div>
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First, we designed robots in our sketchbooks, and wrote what they did for us. The next week we came in and talked about technology some more, and how we could use found objects to create a different kind of robot than the one we drew--one that was made from stamping our lines with the found objects. Below you will find some of the results of our endeavors. Our first grade engineers really rocked the house with their stamped out bots. Way to go, First Grade. Take a look:</div>
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RNE's 4th graders had a great chance to get creative both with watercolor and printmaking in our last 2-D project. We painted concentric circles on 8" x 8" watercolor paper, moving analogously in our circles. We learned about the grand rose windows that grace European cathedrals, discussing their radial symmetry and the organic and geometric shapes that make up a rose window. <br />
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After learning how we could make radial designs by working on a diagonal within a square and then placing it repeatedly in quadrants, we began working on a diagonal design using both geometric and organic shapes. Students deeply etched in their designs on a 4" x 4" styrofoam plate with a ball point pen, working from one corner outward on a diagonal.<br />
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Inking stations were set up on each table; students inked on black block printing ink and brayed the plate four times (re-inking each time), rotating the plate circularly until all four quadrants had printed. The result was a radial design that echoed the rose windows we had studied. Beautiful job, fourth graders!<br />
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<br />Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571832526070584062.post-56696903244918154552013-02-11T11:30:00.002-05:002013-02-23T16:15:16.308-05:00ARTchitecture!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttGF8CNdiIX7MkuZ88FNwxkZNyXQBXwI3_A85TLQGOHvxWg4pswLkFAA5Op4PcTpR4pfjAItqVDL8LD5-3TF9dVIXlQkh4XGDPg7MK8lNwHxwY3E0NTlKRBnG21F45bUu80obkJAPjvQ/s1600/Sagrade+Familia+Interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttGF8CNdiIX7MkuZ88FNwxkZNyXQBXwI3_A85TLQGOHvxWg4pswLkFAA5Op4PcTpR4pfjAItqVDL8LD5-3TF9dVIXlQkh4XGDPg7MK8lNwHxwY3E0NTlKRBnG21F45bUu80obkJAPjvQ/s320/Sagrade+Familia+Interior.jpg" uea="true" width="213" /></a>We are starting on architecture in 5th grade and are about to get rocking with an Imagination Factory, first as a drawing and then in clay. I'm excited! We've looked at Frank Gehry's buildings, Antonio Gaudi's buildings, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser's buildings. I got a lot of questions about La Sagrada Familia, the beautiful and still (100 years later) unfinished cathedral in Barcelona. Above are a couple of pictures for those of you who were asking. I could've looked them up all day--what a gorgeous building! Can't wait to see what you all make for your Imagination Factories. I hope this is inspiration for you!Mrs. Paschallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04189606703296376642noreply@blogger.com0