Monday the 7th

Monday I met with Ms. O'Donnell's 3rd grade. We stamped out an exact amount on 2 more index cards, noting that there might be different coin combinations to get there. Then we arrange our coin value card deck in order from largest to smallest amount. I like how through the lesson Ms. O'Donnell gave numerous synonyms for the words we were using. Finally we had our art auction! We explained that in an auction one bids an amount one is willing to pay, and the bids should start small. if someone wants it more than you they can bid a higher amount, but the goal is to get it for the cheapest amount.

 I had made about 30 printouts of various Andy Warhol images and mounted them on blue card as our items to bid on. We had viewed Warhol's work at the beginning of the residency, and the kids love his bright pop art. The final picture, for the last kid to bid (no competition since everyone who had gotten a picture couldn't bid again) went for $0.03 whereas most of the other pictures were auctioned of for over a dollar!

 The 5th grade class reviewed stencils and posters, and I demonstrated how we would create our combination paper/mylar stencil for image and text. The kids had a chance to sketch out their words and images together to get their spelling and content approved. They glued their paper stencils onto the mylar and then used sharpie markers to write out the text. To inspire more aesthetic text I brought in handouts with a selection of font styles, which some students were excited to use.

 I think their stencils turned out wonderfully, and have interesting compositions of word and image.Let's just pray for a sunny day on Monday!!!!

Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures during the 2nd grade class. However, we started our new project to reinforce number families. We made a color wheel with colored construction paper in our sketchbooks, an noticed that the primary colors make secondary colors for 3 major color families. Then we made color family stories just like the kids usually make number families. For example:

R+Y=O

Y+R=O

O-Y=R

O-R=Y

The kids drew boxes in their books for each color family set and colored in the appropriate boxes. I modeled the first 2 sets on the board, and most kids were able to figure out the 3rd set. Next week we'll start our color family notan project.