Back At It
24 10 2008I had to shake the rust off a little bit this week after not being the “official” teacher for over 5 weeks. Regardless, I am happy to be back in front of the students. While some might view having a student teacher as “easy”, any good teacher will tell you that it is hard being away from the business of teaching.
In fine arts this week, the 3rd graders continued creating their voting posters. By making these posters, the students are learning a lot about what makes a successful poster design by deciding on what colors to use, how to place things on their paper, and what information to include. Our goal is to have these hanging by the morning of November 3rd, the day before the presidential election.
The 4th and 5th graders are either finished their logos this week or will finish them next week. These will be put on Art Sonia and you can view the gallery here. Above, you can see a few examples.
The 6th graders finished up their emotion paintings. They will soon be writing a story, poem, or song that explains why they are feeling the way they are feeling. These will be hanging in the hallway very soon.
First quarter grades are coming up in just a couple weeks, so the projects above will be the last projects they do before the end of the quarter. I am expecting everything to be completed by that point.
Also, we started a video/technology after school program this week. Our first “project” is to create an animated children’s story. The students were busy writing their stories this week on Microsoft Word. As a reminder, we will not have class next week. When we return to class on Tuesday, November 4th, we will begin looking for and creating pictures for our stories.
Until next week…
