![]() Find out what other enrichment teachers do at your school. The second year I did this I glued each classes cards to a poster board and gave it to their teacher after displaying it.Ĭlassroom Management. After each child completed a small self portrait on an index card I put all 600+ cards up on the classroom wall for all the kids to see. I stand at the front of class when teaching them, just like high school. With the older kids (4th -6th) we started in seats and sent around Rusty Brush with the same get to know you question. Make sure you have a seating chart done on your first day, this will help you with names. I let them choose their own seats my first year and began to regret it half way through the year. ![]() Then I briefly explained what a self-portrait was and showed Frida Kahlo's self portrait. I read my students a short book about Frida Kahlo (I ended up paraphrasing the book so they would have more time to draw). You are juggling a lot of things on the first day, so if you are going to do a project keep it simple and keep it the same for all of your classes. I decided for the first day I would teach every class the same thing. Avoid the cute tables that are weird shapes, getting kids to look up front and listen when their backs are to you is too challenging. Try to set up your tables so that as many chairs as possible face the front of the room. They will take some getting used to for the kinders, but these are stools that they will grow into, you will really appreciate them with the older kids. I prefer stools because they take up less space and are easy to put on the tables at the end of the day. If you have a large room order 8 of these tables. I am in the process of trying to order 6 of these tables (30"x72") Ideally you would have 4 kids at each table, I will have 5 on some because I have a small room. If you have a choice I recommend large, rectangular tables with small (18") stools. You may have tiny tables and chairs, and both small and big kids. Some of you may not have an option, you may be stuck with whatever was in the room. If you are teaching all the grades like me you are probably wondering what size desks and chairs to use. My largest class this year is 28 students. Make sure you have enough chairs for your largest class. I say mostly, because I still have a lot to learn! I'm writing this blog post to help those new teachers who are trying to figure out how to teach Elementary Art! After one and half school years of teaching Elementary Art I can happily say I mostly have it figured out. I found some good nuggets of information with people like Cassie Stephens, but all in all, I had to figure most of it out on my own. I scoured blogs and books trying to figure out how to teach Elementary Art. Last school year I was hired at my kids school to teach Kinder through 6th Grade Art. But after having children of my own I became immersed in the world of process art, fun quick projects that led to creativity and invention! Once my kids entered Kindergarten it seemed natural for me to gravitate towards Elementary Art. ![]() The sky was the limit with what you could teach them and there was no shortage of time. We would spend days, sometimes weeks working on projects. Your only solution to avoid this horrible fate? Obviously a pile of chicken nuggets with all their cushiony goodness.I was a high school art teacher for 14 years, and I loved it. ![]() ![]() Who doesn’t love reminiscing about buying cigarettes on the playground or convincing the janitor to murder your classmates? No? That’s not normal? I must have had a odd childhood… Anyway, Kindergarten is full of countless ways to die, one of which is falling into the Nugget Cave. KINDERGARTEN – a game filled with the nostalgia of youth. Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Subscribe to the Game Theorists! ►► ![]()
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