The easiest way to see what is going on in the art room is to follow us on TWITTER @stillartngarden Using twitter, i have found to be the quickest way to show off our wonderful work. The blog is for information regarding standards and grading.
The art room is different than the regular classroom. We don't have a textbook or a curriculum map saying we all have to be teaching this standard this way. Projects and materials are introduced to students and they are scaffold. (build on each other), especially in k-2. In grades 3-5, students are encouraged to chose their materials and projects are more open-ended, which requires more time for rough-drafts/sloppy copies, actual creating and revising. We work our way through the design process which leads to sometimes very little coming home until the end.
So you don't have a twitter account, all of our tweets are actually showing up on the schools main web page. So take a look there. Some of the tweets are actually written by the students on my phone and since I can't post until I am off campus, I can check what they have to say before it is put out there in the universe.
The art room is different than the regular classroom. We don't have a textbook or a curriculum map saying we all have to be teaching this standard this way. Projects and materials are introduced to students and they are scaffold. (build on each other), especially in k-2. In grades 3-5, students are encouraged to chose their materials and projects are more open-ended, which requires more time for rough-drafts/sloppy copies, actual creating and revising. We work our way through the design process which leads to sometimes very little coming home until the end.
So you don't have a twitter account, all of our tweets are actually showing up on the schools main web page. So take a look there. Some of the tweets are actually written by the students on my phone and since I can't post until I am off campus, I can check what they have to say before it is put out there in the universe.