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Grant-White Enrichment Club
Last week ended four weeks of After School Enrichment with some third, fourth, and fifth graders. Our concentration was relief printmaking. We made two printing plates, one from foam and one from EZ cut block. Students were to come up with a theme for their series and make drawings for their plates that reflected that theme.
I had a lot of fun, and I think the kids did too! Look at these gorgeous prints!
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Read the latest Romney for President white paper: “A Chance For Every Child: Mitt Romney’s Plan for Restoring the Promise of American Education.”
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If you were a 1st grader learning about Zoo Animals...
What kind of science lesson would you want to participate in?
and music/movement..
and social studies..
Yeah, I’m a little behind on lesson plans.. ideas anyone?
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Studio Art (9th-10th Grade) Vance Kirkland Dot Painting:
Up until this point I hadn’t really done any materials-intensive projects with my high school students, and I wanted to make sure to do one so that I had experience with materials management at the secondary level. My cooperating teacher was going to begin a surrealism painting project when I left, so I chose to do an “intro-to-paint” project to prepare the students for it.
I wanted to make sure they knew how to manage the paint studio, how to mix colors, and some basic paint application techniques. I was inspired by a Vance Kirkland project that I found on incredible art department. I chose Kirkland because his work drew a lot of influence from aboriginal dreamtime paintings, so I was able to also include a multicultural aspect to this project.
We began by priming our canvas with gesso, and then applying a layer of color for our backgrounds. Students then had to, using analogous colors, mix tints and shades to “splatter” onto their backgrounds. I created a “splatter-station” with cardboard boxes to contain the mess.
Once students had splattered their paint, I had them look for the interesting shapes that the spatters made and then emphasize them with “dots” of different tints and shades of analogous colors. Students were also given the option of using an accent color outside of their color scheme if they chose too. We used different sized dowels to paint the dots. Above are some examples of what they came up with.
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Get your summer reading list together!!
Half.com is offering FREE SHIPPING on all of its books via code FREESHIP! (You have to buy at least $10 of books and can take off a max of $25 for shipping- but most of the cost on Half.com is shipping, so this is an amazing code!) So I bought some organization books (some for home, some for teaching), some good reads on my reading list- 7 books came out to be $13.79! Took off $23.39 of shipping! One big goal of mine this summer is to get my life, vision, and materials organized, as this was one of the biggest obstacles to me being an effective teacher this year. I am really excited to read all of these!
—What Keeps Teachers Going? by Sonia Nieto (2003, Paperback) : Sonia Nieto (Paperback, 2003) (this has been on my to-read list since I met Sonia Nieto last April at a panel talk)
—Organizing for the Creative Person by Dolores Cotter Lamping and Dorothy Lehmkuhl (1994, Paperback) : Dorothy Lehmkuhl… (I hope this attacks the fact that I’m a big-ideas person and not the best detail-oriented person there is)
—The Organized Teacher: A Hands-on Guide To Setting Up And Running A Terrific Classroom by Steve Springer, Brandy Alexander and Kimber… (I’ve heard really good things about this book)
—The Everything Classroom Management Book by Eric Groves Sr. (2009, Paperback, Original) : Eric Groves Sr. (Paperback, 2009) (this tacked on like 75 more cents so I figured it might be useful!)
—Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office, and Your Life by Julie Morgenstern (I liked how this sounded more like a big picture approach- we’ll see if it works)
—Time Management from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule—And Your Life by Julie Morgenstern (again, big picture approach might be the most helpful!)
—Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky (2008, Hardcover) : Clay Shirky (Hardcover, 2008) (I wanted to read a book on how new technologies could be utilized to organize people for causes- we’ll see if this is any good!) -
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Love this
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Shouryya Ray is the first person to work out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.Shouryya won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to “curiosity and schoolboy naivety.”
