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Today we are going to work on two things: one is a plan for what you all would like to do in class and the other is our plan for work with Park St. school and Mrs. Evans's class.

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Below are ideas found by various people for things we could do. Please look at at least **twenty** possibilities. Select your five favorites of the ideas you looked at and send us an e-mail with those things:
 * Part One: our class**

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I found a great website that puts art into the curriculum. The cite has the curriculum broken down into social studies, science, and language arts. Each category is then broken into different topics (like world cultures, geography, and oceanography), and under each topic is at least one activity to do with students. The website is: [|http://www.childdrama.com/lessons.html#crosstop] __(from Sarah Ferrall)__

__For art, I thought that kids could do tissue leaf rubbing. It's a great activity to do in the fall. They take leaves and a sheet of paper, then rub over the paper with a crayon. It creates the real texture of a leaf and looks like one too.They can continue to do this with different colors and cut them all out. Paint would also be an option to put on the leaves. Another fun activity would be to do the life cycle of a butterfly using pasta. Spiral, shell, bow tie are all used. Each of the pasta's represent the butterfly as it grows. They can glue the pieces of pasta to one big butterfly and identify what each stage is.__ __Allison Potter__

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/early/ElementExtravaganza.html http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/monster.shtmlhttp://www.kinderart.com/drawing/adadnoun.shtmlhttp://www.kinderart.com/drawing/numbers.shtmlhttp://www.creativity-portal.com/becreative/activities/popcornart.htmlhttp://www.creativity-portal.com/becreative/activities/typartgraphy.htmlhttp://www.creativity-portal.com/becreative/activities/wordtype.htmlhttp://www.creativity-portal.com/becreative/activities/writethestory.html http://www.childdrama.com/fire.html



http://www.theteachersguide.com/Artlessonplans.html

Design a postage stamp

http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/lesson9.html loom out of soda straws




 * 1) Sarah’s link was a link to a lesson plan website. I really liked the idea of doing dram with current events. Children could act out the stories from the news or things they read in the paper. This is practicing social interaction, drama, and knowledge of current events.
 * 2) I enjoy working with clay, particularly on a wheel making ceramic bowls and pots. However, while this is a little advanced for young children, they may enjoy working with clay in other ways such as hand-building. In addition to the artistic principles of this project, the children may also learn about the natural properties of clay and how it is a natural resource, etc. (this idea was mentioned in lesson five on the wiki under the properties of soil and natural resources) You can also discuss the different textures of clay in its different stages.
 * 3) In lesson six it mentioned simply looking at pictures and describing what you noticed about the color, shapes, etc. This made me think of an awesome literacy activity that you could do with your class. You could introduce a painting to your class and have a discussion about the different elements and things that stick out in the painting. Next, you could have each student in the class write a short story about what they see when they look at the picture. They could use the picture as a setting or they could make up a story that they feel the picture describes. Each child would have a different interpretation of the painting and it would be cool to share with the class all of the different ideas that the children had.
 * 4) Another idea that I thought was pretty cool was the overlapping tissue-strip window designs. The activity involves making in a sense stained class that you can hang by the windows and watch the sun reflect the different colors. By overlapping the different colors of tissue paper, young children can learn how the primary colors mix to form secondary colors. When the sun shines through the overlapping colors, they make a new color and this will be an aid in learning about primary and secondary colors.
 * 5) I love the idea of doing art extensions after reading a book. The idea online was for after reading the book //There’s a Nightmare In My Closet//. The idea was to have children illustrate a personal nightmare of their own. This project is left open to so many ideas and I think it is great.

**Book: The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions****1. Spray Chalk****2. Fossils****3. Papier Mache Eggs****4. Salty Map Dough****5. Shake & Make Ice Cream** ** 6. Rock Candy **** 7. Cool Crayons ** ** Book: Prime Time Together With Kids **** 1. Tie-Dye Tee-shirts ** ** Book: Little Hands Art Book **** 1. Scratch Board ** ** Amanda has all three of these books, with the directions for the activities inside of them! **

Monochromatic painting Painted bookPebble paintingStain Glass windows Pointilism

1. Creative Movement with the different exercises. It really gets students involved and eager to try hands on things. 2. The discovery of fire. I think that is creative and fun for the students. Group work is always helpful and gets a bunch of ideas rather than just one.3. Spring Egg. It gets people in the mood for Easter and is a very simple project.4. Monster Art. We can base our monsters off of the book, and use our own imagination based off what is described in the book.5. Melting crayons. I think that messy projects are always the funnest. Including art projects with basic studies really helps out a lot with students. It's fun and not just reading out of a textbook.

Personal FlagsCartoonhandbookSimple MachKCYApplicationsCreative MovementPainted Book

Here are my top five choices for topics. painted book personal flags origami design a postage stamp soda straw weaving

[|http://chelsea.spps.org/sixth_grade_art.html] [|http://www.dickblick.com/multicultural/lessonplans/] These are a few websites I have used at various times. I don’t know if they are necessarily the “best “ websites but I have found them very interesting in useful for what I have needed. As long as I have some ideas and I guide I am often able to come up with so good inventive ideas and these have helped with different art projects, some more feasible then others. I looked through the different ideas and websites posted on the wiki and these were the 5 that appealed to me the most: 1.) I really liked the illuminated text idea I love art projects that deal with language and reading and writing. I love the art of different letters etc… and I thought that this was a very cool idea. 2.) I really like the weaving with the straw idea as well. This would work well with a lot of children in my opinion, and it could be used to talk about many different things, Different cultures, meanings, uses etc… 3.) The personal flags idea was actually an idea I have used in a lesson plan for another class before and I loved it. The idea that each child can make something individual and unique to them is a very special thing for them, and it also helps them recognize the differences and similarities between them and there peers and how those things are good not bad. I actually used this with a much younger group then 6th graders but I think it would work well for a lot of different ages 4.) I thought the creative dance and movement ideas were fun and would work well for children that liked to be up and doing something physical at times. I myself as a student would of much rathered sat down answered some questions and let the teacher talk because I didn’t like doing all the creative moving stuff but most students are not like that at all and this was a great idea for different studetnts. 5.) The last one of my favorite ideas was the yarn painting. It sounded so interesting and fun it would be something that even I would like to experiment with. I think students would enjoy it also.

I also just had to say I loved the [|http://www.theteachersguide.com/Artlessonplans.html] website that was posted. It had a lot of great ideas that were easily broken down into the different grade levels for teachers.

After looking at the 20 activities the following 5 caught my eye:

1.)Huichol Yarn 2.)Understanding Political Cartoons 3.)Monster Art (link: [|http://www.theteachersguide.com/Artlessonplans.html]) 4.)WaterColor Butterfly (link: [|http://www.theteachersguide.com/Artlessonplans.html]) 5.)Melted Crayons (link: [|http://www.theteachersguide.com/Artlessonplans.html])

These are the five lessons that Caitlin and Megan thought would be fun to do in class. personal flags art lesson plans: origami art lesson plans: melted crayons childdrama.com: “No You Can’t Take Me” Lesson childdrama.com: “Gibberish Sentences” Lesson

Hello! I had trouble narrowing it down to five, so I just included all of the ideas I thought would be interesting and fun. - Huichol Yarn Painting- Stained glass windows- Filters of Flowers - Educator's Reference Desk- Melted Crayons - Educator's Reference Desk- Origami - Educator's Reference Desk- Relief Print-Making Project - Educator's Reference Desk- Spring Egg - Educator's Reference Desk- Tissue Strip Window Designs - Educator's Reference Desk- Dreamcatcher - Educator's Reference Desk- Tissue Collage Vase - Educator's Reference Desk- Soda Straw Weaving From the list, our top 5 choices are... illuminated textpainted bookhuichol yarnpersonal flagsdugout plaque We also like Lesson 19 - We would have the students create their own stain glass window/picture out of tissue paper. We also like the idea of looking at a painting and from the painting, each child would create a short story of what they think the picture represents and what it's trying to convey.

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