Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: January 8, 2010
I volunteered 51 hours in December (down a few from the norm since I took a week off before break to visit my family), for a total of 292 hours in the classroom, and about 438 hours total. I spend a lot of time gathering materials, writing lesson plans, scouring SCRAP for supplies, writing letters [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: December 30, 2009
Okay, after a wee break, I am back and ready for more art, more kids, and more trash becoming treasure. This trimester, each grade level’s art unit corresponds with something else that is already part of the curriculum to help support standards that are already being taught during class. I gave teachers a list of [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 10, 2009
At different points during the year certain classes will miss their art lesson due to school holidays, assemblies, field trips, etc. Every so often I take a week to catch all the classes up so I don’t have some classes trailing behind, using materials I could have finished using and put away weeks ago. During [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 8, 2009
So far, so good. I’d like to thank Georgie’s clay and Art Media on 82nd in Portland for donating clay for projects later in the year, and the Mill End Store for donating several yards of fabric so we can work on a quilt. My current total number of hours spent volunteering (just time spent [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: October 7, 2009
I found that having the K/1 kids paint and the 4/5 kids use paint during the same week is not a good idea. It makes so many “dishes” to wash between visiting each class! I will modify my future lessons so paint is only used by one of the three groupings each week. I spent [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: September 10, 2009
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: September 10, 2009
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: August 26, 2009
Here is how I’m handling glue, since it doesn’t often come into SCRAP as a donated material. If you already have a set of class glue bottles that you can refill with one of those wompous gallon jugs, super. I got this idea from The Art of Teaching Art to Children by Nancy Beal. Her [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: August 12, 2009
These books have pretty good art examples in them, they solve the problem of me not having a large personal art library of examples to show kids when discussing the elements of art. So I can keep sets of 5 in my art closet and bust them out in class when we need to look [...]
