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Astronauts!
Posted on: May 17, 2010
Living Things at Woodstock Library
Posted on: May 11, 2010
Third grade students are learning about plants in art and science. They made plant rubber stamps and printed with them – look for leaves, veggies, fruits, flowers, trees, etc. Some of their tree paintings are also on display; they mixed up custom colors for the background and painted portfolio boxes literally removed from a recycle dumpster. We sketched trees in the school’s courtyard and talked about the parts of trees and how trees really look (not like a cotton ball on a stick), and kids used black, white, blue, yellow and red paint, mixed colors and painted a landscape featuring a tree.
Solar Systems at Sellwood Library
Posted on: May 5, 2010
5/3/10 Update
Posted on: May 3, 2010
I am pretty excited – I volunteered 154 hours in April, bringing my grand total to 1005 hours since September.
In other news, I will be changing the format from more formal, traditional lesson plans to tutorials. I just cannot keep up with the lesson plans and this way I can still put up pictures of student work and share ideas for creative reuse but be slightly less exhausted. This summer I will go back and categorize all the projects by material type, which might make it easier for people who are searching for creative reuse suggestions.
Thank you to Mt. Scott Fuel for contributing gravel and soil to fill our planter boxes we made to celebrate earth day, and to Seven Dees Landscaping for donating grass seed for our upcoming seed heads!
Second grade: Printed Note Cards
Posted on: April 27, 2010
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- A student using a brayer and ink on a lid tray to print (they are printing with a stamp, not a plate)
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- Printed note cards drying, waiting to be written in and delivered. You can see the inked plates drying interspersed with the cards.
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Second grade: Letter Writing
Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10
Printed note cards
Cost per student: $.20 (brayers can be used forever, though)
Materials: Brayers, foam trays, ballpoint pens, pencils, scratch paper, paper or cardstock to print onto, plastic lids or trays, acrylic paint or printing ink (like Speedball), newspapers, clean wet cloths.
Students will design an image and make multiple prints using traditional block printing techniques.
Elements of art: Line, texture, value
Vocabulary: printing, brayer
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- A closeup of some of the hand designs students and teachers contributed. Color in evenly and thickly for the best results!
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- The finished handprint mural! What a good rescued find – the globe appliqué was too cute to leave in the trash.
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan First Grade: Families
Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10
Hand Print Mural
Cost per student: $.10 (not including the use of an iron)
Materials: Iron, fabric (I found a giant appliquéd globe on a sheet in the trash), fabric crayons, paper, markers, newspaper or towel to iron on top of.
Students will create an individual design to contribute to the whole group mural
Elements of art: shape, space
Vocabulary: mural, family, humankind
Animals at Holgate Library
Posted on: April 25, 2010
