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First Day In Art Class- "Painted Papers"

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Hi everyone!  It has been a while since I have written a blog post.  Since my last post: -I've bought a house. -Graduated from grad school. -Had a baby.  and as we all are--- currently surviving a pandemic.  But I am excited for the new school year, nonetheless. With the start of another school year comes the dread of creating a fun and engaging lesson for the first visit. I don't know about you, but I always have a hard time coming up with something interesting. This year I stuck with something simple yet fun.  I teach upper elementary, so each grade level did the exact same lesson-- Kwik Stix "Painted papers" using Analogous colors.  I always start my first visit to art with my rules and expecations video. Back when Bitmojis were a hit in the classroom, I made a video explaining the rules of the art room. Its only 5 minutes, keeps the kids' attention, and I don't have to say the same thing one million times--at two schools.  Next, we reviewed analogous color
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Exploding Boxes- 1pt Perspective Drawings

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I can say that I have had tons of fun working on a few new lessons with my kiddos! The Exploding Boxes being one of them. Last year was YEAR ONE for me and for some odd reason I stayed far away from ANY lesson that dealt with perspective. Perspective was difficult for me in school, so I felt extremely uncomfortable teaching it. But I figured this was a very valuable lesson to teach to students-- logical, process-based, and quite mathematical. I put on my thinking cap. I decided to play around with perspective drawings one day afterschool. I wanted to keep it SIMPLE. So, I just drew a few boxes in One Point Perspective. I figured this would be easy enough to teach to my 4th graders. I tried out this lesson with my gifted and talented students first. We always meet afterschool for about an hour to learn and work on new projects. I figured drawing the boxes in one point perspective would be engaging and challenging for this group. I started off the project by teaching st
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