This will be my LAST post for this school year 2019-2020. At the bottom of this post, I have included some tutorials that I gave my students, for those of you interested in creating your own virtual rooms. It's so quick, easy and rather addictive! This was a task I introduced because we could not... Continue Reading →
During virtual school one of the BIG challenges for art was access to materials. So I offered my normal units as planned with these slides as an option for students who didn't have the materials. FOUND OBJECTS AND DRAWING (Slides 2-6) NOTE: All artist connections and resources are in the above slides. These images inspired... Continue Reading →
During social distancing I signed up for the free art course: "Sketchbook Revival" by Karen Abend. What I really loved about it was the surprise factor, it was like a mystery art tour, you never knew what skill you'd be exposed to. Each tutorial was about 20-30mins and each task could easily be completed within... Continue Reading →
As soon as my students were back in the class, despite social distancing, I decided to continue the "Passion Project" unit for grades 7 and 8 and "Choice Art" for grade 6 as well as their Optical Art unit. This is always a hi-light for the students because they not only follow their passions but... Continue Reading →
This is what the room looked like when we were back to school. The students originally were required to wear masks, use hand sanitiser, and sit 1m away facing forward. No materials could be shared, and all tables and materials needed to be sprayed at the end. As you can imagine in an art room... Continue Reading →
The Tic-Tac-Toe format of this task was inspired by Kasey Bell from Shake Up Learning. I loved using it and will do so again in the future. If you haven't heard of this amazing lady, check out her resources they are phenomenal. Here is a great example of her Doc resources for educators. I introduced... Continue Reading →
This is a unit I taught 6 years ago. Since we have gone virtual, I thought it would be absolutely perfect for my grade 7 students. Mainly, because the process of making a book sculpture is very therapeutic, it also meant limited computer time! Not to mention it is an awesome project where every student... Continue Reading →
After creating the book sculptures, I decided to introduce an easy and super fun art challenge to encourage my grade 7's creativity and observation skills. Inspired by the art of Manik and Ratan we created creatures interacting with real life objects. I love their pet dragon and wanted to see what my students could create.... Continue Reading →
BEFORE VIRTUAL SCHOOL We were doing some amazing exploring with Gelli printing, which feels so long ago since the school has been closed (5 weeks). So I thought I'd use this time to reflect on what we were doing and share how it has changed since virtual school. The students were provided a Slides workbook... Continue Reading →
