Happy Wednesday!
I'm linking up with Miss DeCarbo for the weekly party!
Here's my picture and question:
We did these self-portraits yesterday as a "brain break" after an lengthy assessment. My students had SO much fun with them!
I used the black and white doodle frames from The 3AM Teacher, mounted the portraits onto black cardstock, and had my students write their name using a white chalk-marker.
My Question:
Do you incorporate art (i.e.: directed drawings) in your general education classroom, and if yes, HOW?
Our students attend art as an enrichment class, but we currently do not do any cut and paste, craftivities, interactive notebook activities, etc. in the classroom. The only times I have added it in is with my small intervention groups as a "break."
I'm very interested in finding a place to fit it in next year,
but we teach all day and still don't seem to accomplish everything!
If you do, please share (thank you!)!!
One student also shared a portrait he made of me:
YIKES!
On occasion, I do directed drawings - my students do love these activities. We've made our own Cats in the Hat; bunnies;pigs ... I usually do a writing activity with it = like an acrostic poem. Plus, following directions is a life skill so I think it's a very worthwhile activity!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of using self portraits for a brain break! I have used directed drawings a few times in my classroom and I find it most effective to connect them with science or social studies. A lot of times I have used the directed drawing to correspond with a writing activity for content we're studying like the George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Bats, St. Patrick's day etc. It's also a nice activity to wrap up a unit of study with! It's definitely not easy to fit it all in but my kids have truly enjoyed doing them this year. I find Friday afternoons are also the best time to do them, a nice close to the week. Also, the self-portrait of you is just priceless! These kids are too funny. Have a great rest of your week!
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Those self portraits are so cute! I love doing art in my class. I usually do it at the end of the day. I incorporate it whenever I can because it just makes the classroom a more relaxed place. We just made watercolor ladybugs because we're learning about ladybugs. So I make it relate to what we're doing. I just posted two projects on my blog. Check them out!
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Stacy
Thank you SO much everyone - I've been eyeing the directed drawings because I know my students would love them. I just needed the rationale and you all came through - thank you again!! Jen
ReplyDeleteAs a librarian who was an art ed major in college, I incorporated art into all of the books I shared with the children, even into their research activities. I designed worksheets where the children took "notes" by sketching information rather than writing it out. I taught them to sketch quickly and to draw pictures they could "read" later for meaning. Holler at me if you would like to know more!
ReplyDeleteAs a librarian who was an art ed major in college, I incorporated art into all of the books I shared with the children, even into their research activities. I designed worksheets where the children took "notes" by sketching information rather than writing it out. I taught them to sketch quickly and to draw pictures they could "read" later for meaning. Holler at me if you would like to know more!
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