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March 01, 2013

Nacho Ordinary Math Night & Art



"NACHO Everyday Math Night!" we are served nachos and did math activities last night at school.  This was following our amazing "Hot Dog!  It's Reading Night!"  
Here are some of the (Math ART) pieces my students did to display!  more detailed post to come...







February 19, 2013

Kindergarten goes Patriotic!

Kindergarten class learned about the Presidents and created their own patriotic piece.  These are just fabulous!
We did an artist study on Jack Levine and then created our own patriotic piece.










February 15, 2013

Love Splat by Rob Scotton

Kindergarten fun with Splat the Cat!  I had one class that completed their robots early and since it was Valentines Day I did this quick lesson with them so that next week we can all start on the same project together.  They had fun and they turned out pretty cute!
Happy Valentines Day and thank you ROB SCOTTON for introducing us to SPLAT!



February 08, 2013

I HEART ROBOTS - The Robot Book and art





This was one of my favorite KINDERGARTEN art lessons yet!  We are working on art for our "Nacho Ordinary Math Night" and I am supposed to have every grade level contribute art integrated with math.  Well...I found this book that I so fell in love with called The Robot Book by Heather Brown.  It was just perfect to go along with our shape robots we were making.  To provide the ultimate hook...I found the book trailer at http://youtu.be/pg6U1VNNAi0.
 We used the book to be our inspiration for our artwork.   We reviewed our shapes and looked at a variety of robot designs to help make decisions on what our robots needed.  I did the entire lesson in my best ROBOT VOICE and the only way they could talk in class was to use their robot voices.  They so loved it!  
You can use my how to power point here 
or you can create your own version.  For the end they created a sentence strip with their robots name and we attached this shape chart where they counted the # of shapes on their robot and included the chart on their display. 




Why I can not make these photos turn upright I have NO IDEA...sorry.  Just do the robot head tilt to view it.















January 31, 2013

Snowflake Bently & Foiled Flakes

 3rd and 4th grade did their snow dance and helped bring in Arkansas' first white Christmas with these fabulous foiled snowflakes.  We actually used 2 books for our art influence on this project.  The first is J. Martin's book Snowflake Bentley which is about Wilson Bentley was a famous writer and photographer for his images he captured of snowflakes.  This great story tells of his life in a easy way for students to understand.  It also has lots of great facts about the tiny crystals.  We also used the book The Snowflake:  A Water Cycle Story by N. Waldman that shares the story of what happens to the snowflake each month of the year.
My students did these short writings about a time they had spent in the snow to display with their pieces.  They were really proud of them.  If you want the step by step directions you can use my PowerPoint by clicking on this site:  http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-1655397-snowflake-foil-art/