Week of Jan 30

Due to Predictive testing this week Ms O'Donnell's 3rd grade, Ms McGinley's 4th grade, and Ms Gelfand and Ms McAffrey's 5th grade missed out on Artslink lessons, but we'll be back this coming week.
2nd Grade: Mr. Pitt and Ms Drossner's classes looked at shapes in art and practiced drawing different sided polygons in their journals. Ms Spangler's class began sketching a design and weaving a shape composition using pipe cleaners on gridded needlepoint canvas. Their finished product will be fuzzy like the carpet we looked at.

3rd grade: Ms Didonato and Ms Lex's classes finished up the shape collage project by counting up their picture totals and figuring out the "change" if I bought their picture for $5. We tried trading pictures to have partners double check. Below, Ms Didonato showed the class how to use the "bucket method" for counting change. ms Lex's class had enough time to make a small "change collage" on the back sides of their first collages. Next week we'll begin an abacus project.

 4th grade: Mr Willis and Ms Yancey's classes were able to do lego printmaking. They had to create a matrix of legos and use either stamping with an inkpad or rubbing with pencil/crayon/colored pencil to fill the square papers. Their goal was to make as many prints as possible in the time we had.

 I think the kids enjoyed the speed and exciting visual effect of doing a rubbing, but I enjoy the carefully stamped compositions more. Next week we'll do some coloring to change them and do some analysis for thinking about fractions.

5th grade: I was able to meet with Ms Albert's class after the testing period on Monday morning to allow them some extra sewing time on their geometric form sculptures. We'll see how far they get tomorrow, but I hope we'll be finished our sculptures in 1-2 weeks. Ms Gelfand's class should be finished this week.

Kudos to Ms Akif for sharing her art project connections in the previous post! I hope more of my teaching partners feel free to post on here!  I also want to acknowledge and thank my teaching partners for stepping up their co-teaching role following our professional development workshop last week! We have a fabulous team!