Friday, August 30, 2013

Five for Friday

Today chewed me up and spit me back out.  I won’t go into it, but I’ve decided to take the afternoon for myself. I’m looking at Pinterest and reading blogs. I haven’t done either of those things in a while. I miss it!

So, I am determined to post my Five for Friday ON Friday this time. Here goes nothing…

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Today was my first day teaching art. While the rest of my day was rough, I enjoyed my classes. (For those who may be new to my blog, I am in a STEAM lab this year. I teach 6 classes a day K-5 on a three day rotating schedule.) I was a little nervous about it. My first two classes were a little crazy, but by the end of the day I managed to finish projects AND clean up before they left me. With only two minutes between classes it is a bit hectic!
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Speaking of Art, my first project was based on The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. I started with the story:


I’ve already had several students complain that they are not good at art, so I thought it would be a good starting ground.

I gave each student frames to fill with their dot creation. They got 4-8 frames depending on the grade level. I had stations set up around the room for them to create using crayons, markers, paper/glue, and watercolor.

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After they completed their dot art, they put it together into their own dot gallery. They look fantastic!

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It wasn’t the most technical of lessons, but they were really creative and even the fifth grade boys who rolled their eyes when I started the lesson got into it in the end.




My next step is to sign up for International Dot Day. It just so happens to be on my birthday.


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I want to get each student to design one more dot that we will hang up on the GIANT bulletin boards outside my room. With 18 classes K-5, it will be a lot of dots. 

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Earlier this week I did some more with the Common Core Digital Citizenship Curriculum. I printed these in poster size.



I found with the number of our students on Instagram, I was using the middle school poster starting in third grade. Crazy! It is a great resource though!

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My own two little ones have requested a picnic in the living room the last two nights. No picnic is complete without popcorn and a movie.

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After a long day at work, I can’t complain!
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I knew Monday was Labor Day, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I realized we are off on Thursday as well. Many of the schools in South Florida don’t have school on the major Jewish holidays. I am not Jewish myself, so I didn’t realize it was next week. Talk about a welcome surprise! I won’t turn down a three day week!

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Enjoy your long weekend!

5 comments:

  1. Your dot projects are adorable! I love that you set up stations and let them move around the room - so fun! Can I come to class?!
    Courtney
    Polka Dot Lesson Plans

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  2. You projects look fantastic (and your kiddos are adorable!) Hope you have a wonderful relaxing weekend after a hard week!

    Hunter's Teaching Tales
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  3. I LOVE your Dot activity! I have it in my plans for next week, but I like yours so much better! Hope you have a relaxing weekend - sounds like you've earned it :)

    Molly
    Lucky to Be in First

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  4. What a great surprise to have a 3 day week!

    The art teacher at my school just borrowed my copy of The Dot. I think I will forward this blog post to her as well. Maybe she didn't know there was a video.

    Jennifer
    Mrs. Laffin's Laughings

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