Youth Art Month: YAM Art Show, Harrisburg hosted by The PA. Department Of Education and PAEA5/24/2018 In second grade we just finished our Japanese fans. Usually I do Kimonos but this year I applied for an open call for artists for Davis Art Publications. They allowed us to sign up for a variety of lesson plans written. I "tweaked" a few things to accommodate materials that I had available. I do not use a written curriculum for all my projects but it is nice to research a variety of similar lesson plans to deliver solid instruction. Davis Publications are excellent when it comes to incorporating standards and linking things with vocabulary words, techniques, literature connections, and so much more!
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Oh my, it has been a while!!! So I am taking a few online classes right now and all of the end of year activities have begun, yes BUSY BUSY BUSY! I was searching the web looking at other blogs and teacher websites and stumbled upon this uplifting and humorous blog. Finally a REAL day in the life blog. ENJOY :)
Yesterday our Bloomsburg Memorial Elementary Art Club took a trip to the Bloomsburg Health Care Center to hand out tea bags in colorfully decorated coffee cups. We spent many meetings working on decorating these cups and crafted each one with love. The senior citizens of the Health Care Center enjoyed our visit and hopefully are enjoying our cups! It was a well received project and once again I am so proud of these students!
I found this lesson on Art with Mrs. Brown's website. We will be making tissue paper flowers and adding some shredded paper to these next art class. We need some Spring in our lives after the snow storm we had yesterday!
I posted about this lesson in February but never showed the final results! This project was a hit! Thank you Deep Space Sparkle
I am obsessed with the "Dropping in on" artist series. Students of various ages enjoy these films and always take away a great amount of knowledge about artists and art genres. In first grade I show "Dropping in on Henri Matisse" and have students create Matisse inspired portraits. Here are some of this year's outcomes!
Well it happened, after not having to take any sick days since I came back I managed to catch Strep Throat :( But I am back and feeling much better!! Most of our classes are doing 3D work like pottery and paper mache so they were probably very bummed that they weren't able to work on their projects, but thank goodness for this drawing activity/game that is always a hit! The best part is any grade can play and students usually have a blast!
I have to give credit to School Arts Magazine for this one! First my students learn about the technique and processes of Eric Carle, then they set off to "make pretty papers" as Carle says. Next, we watch Dropping in on Grandma Moses, then we create these awesome barnyard collages!
I am not 100% sure where I seen this project, it may have been pinterest, but I added some things into this lesson to make an excellent cross-curriculum learning experience and the children just loved the outcomes! First we read Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings then we paired up to read and learn more about the Quetzal. Students created a list of facts they read and we shared and discussed these as a whole group before we began using oil pastels to create our drawings. Then we learned about Contour lines to create our cages. :) :)
I know this is a little late but a few weeks ago we celebrated "No Name Calling Week" each student took a pledge to no name calling, in light of our celebration Mrs. Kostiuk and I came up with an "Up" themed display that each student could participate in making. Everyone decorated a balloon with compliment words for "'up' lifting words".
This is an original lesson that I came up with after purchasing the book Jim Henson, The Guy Who Played With Puppets by Kathleen Krull. My hook to this lesson begins with a Hulu clip. Hulu is only $7.99 a month and I can use my account wherever I go with internet access. After we watch the clip we begin to read the book. Students love learning how Henson created Kermit out of his mother's old green coat and that Kermit was actually suppose to be a LIZARD!!!!
This week, PA has had extremely low temperatures and a fair share of some snow squalls so I thought it would be the perfect time to introduce my Kindergarten students to chalk pastels using a literature connection to one of my favorite books, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I love the mass amount of lessons and projects that float all through the interent on pintrest and blogs, but they are a weakness because no matter what my yearly outline has planned I almost always find something that I JUST HAVE TO TRY. the website Deep Space Sparkle is one of those websites I just get lost in and end up changing gears! Here is the basis of the lesson
You will probably hear this several times from me, BUT, I am in LOVE with art history and this is a unit that has been a keeper for the last four years! I love teaching art history and usually put an element of art history into each project (most of the time anyway). I love teaching about Ancient Egypt and the outcome of the projects are stellar. In this unit we do a web exploration on the mummy making process, explore Egyptian Hieroglyphs, add in a literature link (this changes from year to year, this year I used a book from You Choose Books series), create a three dimensional sarcophagus, and design our own cartouche necklace made with shrinky dinks. Here are some "works in progress" from my students.
P.S. Shout out to Sandy Corson (my co-op in 2010) for sharing with me her Ancient Egyptian Unit that flourished ours into what it is today!!! #sandycorson #WASDart |
Meet Mrs. Smith
Hi, I am so happy you are here! My name is Jillette Smith and my journey as an art educator has taken me on an incredible ride. I began teaching in a rural school district located in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. I taught in this district nearly 8 years. Recently, I began teaching art at a larger district near central PA; Williamsport Area School District, home of the Millionaires! I am very proud to be a Millionaire but miss my Bloomsburg Panthers dearly! I teach grades four, five, and six while serving roughly 500 students. Aside, from teaching; I am very passionate about professional development and sharing/collaborating with other art educators. I spend lots of time as a volunteer on the board of PA's chapter of NAEA (National Art Education Association). As the Regional Representative for PAEA, I help support art teachers in our local school districts by providing them with Act 48 accredited opportunities that pertain to them as artists and art educators, advocate for arts education in PA schools. I love serving on this board because of their strong contribution and dedication for art advocacy and quality arts education in schools for every student. The network of peers is invaluable to me and has shaped who I am as an art educator! To learn more about PAEA you can check out the website here! Archives
February 2021
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