Friday, February 7, 2014
Skateboard Building
Roarockit is a company from Toronto Canada that builds boards with students by hand, layer by layer. I got the chance to visit and see the Amazing students at Oasis Skateboard Factory School. Then, students in Green Bay got to build their own boards! It was a great experience, and one I hope to repeat this summer! I worked with the talented Adam Peters from Preble! Big Thank You to Trina Lambert, my principal for being so supportive!
Penguins in the Northern Lights
2/3 Graders watched a beautiful youtube video of the Northern Lights and painted a liquid watercolor background-we emphasized the wet-on-wet watercolor technique. Students could add pinches of salt for stars. The next class students created penguins, practicing cutting, gluing and creating characters! Great job!
Labels:
Northern Lights,
penguins,
Second Grade,
Third Grade,
watercolor,
winter
Thursday, February 6, 2014
The Grand Canyon
4/5th Graders created these crayon drawings learning how to make these landscapes step-by-step. Found this idea while surfing the internet, sorry I can't give credit. It was a fun way for students to draw 3D.
Labels:
5th grade,
fourth grade,
Landscape
Robots
Students in 2/3 Grade created Robot Paintings, (using a great handout from Pinterest) then went on to use recycled objects to create sculptures. This project would not have been successful, if I didn't have an amazing Mom who came in to help me! Rounding up recyclables, manning a hot glue gun, storing them (over 100 robots in the basement!!). It was an unforgettable project. Students even wrote stories in their classrooms about their Robots! It was a great way for everyone to feel successful and just build!!
Charley Harper Clay Birdbaths
Graffiti Words
Charley Harper Cardinals
2/3rd graders looked at the whimsical illustrations of Charley Harper. Students made their own Cardinal Illustration based on one of his works. We followed this up with a clay lesson, doing birds on a bird bath!
Labels:
Charley Harper,
Second Grade,
Third Grade
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