Faith Ringgold Story Quilts - 4th grade

Taught students about African American artist Faith Ringgold. We discussed how art can tell a story and painted visual stories on paper. The paintings were surrounded by geometric paper quilt squares with stitching drawn on. This is a teacher made example.

Farm Landscapes - 2nd grade

Students drew landscapes and learned about perspective while following along with me on the document camera. We then used texture plates and crayon to create a variety of textures within the landscape.

Fall Still Life- 2nd grade

I didn't get a chance to snap any pictures of these done by students, but here are teacher-made examples. Crayon drawings with tempera on paper. We discussed how the wax in crayons resists the water in the paint and separates on the paper. Overlapping, foreground, middle ground, and background were some vocabulary words we used.

Surrealism Heads - 3rd grade

Students made a list of things that they liked and drew them inside a profile outline of their heads. We worked on shading and showing value with colored pencils, as well as what it means to fill an entire area with overlapping drawings.

Picasso Harlequins - 3rd grade

These are all actually made by me as I was teaching the steps under the doc. cam. Didn't get a chance to take pics of student work. But, this project was inspired by the rose and blue periods in Picasso's career. The students learned about monochromatic painting, as well as warm and cool colors. I taught the proportions of the human face and how to add harlequin characteristics.

A few elementary projects...

I have fallen behind with blogging while student teaching. I guess that means I am spending my time on more important things - teaching children. Here are some of the projects I have been teaching...

Can you believe those self-portraits are the work of first graders?!! I can't. I must be doing something right.

Teacher-Made Project Examples

Henna Lesson



Drawing and Music Lesson