Virtual Classroom

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Artists at Work: Crayons!

 What can I do with a crayon?

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Experiment with Crayon Techniques: Using the tip and side of the crayon, and creating a rubbing using crayon


As artists we will discover many ways to use materials in the art room. 


What is a crayon, and how is it made?


How to make a crayon video link
5:49-11:52


Let's try some different ways we can 
 use our crayons!

Materials needed:
Crayons
2 or 3 of broken, peeled crayons
2 half sheets of copy paper
Small piece of consruction paper and stickers


Video Lesson





The Day the Crayons Quit

Monday, August 25, 2025

Artists at Work: Making Art With Natural Materials

 Artists work with Natural Materials

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Materials for making art are all around us!
Some artists make art from natural materials.
What are NATURAL MATERIALS? 
Materials from NATURE that we can use to make art.
examples include: rocks, sticks, leaves, flowers, grasses, feathers, clay etc.


  • Intro, Watch the first part of the video
  • Pass out rocks, students sort rocks
  • Video part 2, Students arrange their rocks to create pictures, stories, etc.
  • Book
    
Reflect/Share:
How did you decide to sort your rocks? 
How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

Rhonda's Rock Hunt



Scribble Stones
                                        

         original lesson 8/24/16

                Artmaking Using Natural Materials


Materials for making art are all around us!
Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are natural materials? 
Materials from nature that we can use to make art.
Can you tell what natural materials these artists used to make their art?






Arranging Stones
Explore the Materials:


  • Special stones
  • How many ways can you think of to sort the stones?
  • Describe arrangement and title work.

Reflect/Share:
How did you decide to sort your rocks? 
Did you work alone or with a  partner/ as a table?
How did you decide to arrange your rocks?





Monday, August 18, 2025

Introduction to Art Class: Kindergarten Lesson

  Introduction to Art




Students come in and stand on the line. Quick Greeting-

This year you will have a special place to sit when you come to our art class.I'm going to show you those special places now.
I want you to listen for your name. When you hear your name come over to me.
Sit in your special place. I will point to it.

Seat students

Welcome to art class! We are going to have an exciting year together in art, full of discovery
and art making. We will draw, collage, paint, and make sculpture. We are going to learn
what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist because we are all artists.




Now we are going to create some art....
Think about something beautiful (Envision)
-think about something you love
-what do you think is really cool?
Can you draw a picture of that ? Can you glue down shapes to make a picture?
Use your imagination to make something beautiful.


Materials:
Paper
pencil
crayons


Clean up expectations:
Clean up song:
1. Silent/no talking/whisper voices
2. Everyone should help clean up their table
3.Put your head down

 
What did you make?
How were you brave when you made your art? 
What did you do when you made a mistake?

*Remind students to raise their hand and wait to be called on.
In school, we are respectful by raising our hands when we have something to say.
Thank individual students for being respectful and raising their hands.






                                                              Art Songs for the end of class


Line Up Time.
Practice line up expectations.
Quiet
Feet on tape
Facing forward





Monday, February 24, 2025

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

 

All About Me

 Kindergarten Self-Portraits



A self-portrait is a picture made by the artist. 
Today the artist is you! 


Instructions Day 1 :
Intro. Video
Demo Video-Drawing a self-portrait:
Draw Face and Trace in Sharpie
Materials:
12x18 white paper
pencil & eraser
Mirror
Sharpie

Intro Video: Self-Portraits
At the end of this book we will the intro video we will self-portraits painted by famous artists.



Self-Portrait Demo.









Monday, February 17, 2025

All about Me

 

My Favorite Things


I am an Artist-These are a few of my Favorite Things 


Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...



What were some of the children's favorite things?


Artists are inspired by things they like and do. 
Today we are going to be drawing some of our favorite things. 

Supplies:
Large piece of paper
Sharpie or marker
Crayons/markers to color after drawing (optional)

Demo Video





What are your favorite things?
Favorite animal?
Favorite food?
Favorite season?
Favorite insect?
Favorite activity?
Favorite toy?
Favorite game?
Favorite outfit?
Favorite movie character?
Favorite holiday?
Favorite people?





Circle the drawing of your most favorite thing!
Color if you have time!

Share/Reflect: Share your one very favorite thing



                                                                       Love is my Favorite Thing


Friday, February 7, 2025

All About Me - Collections

 collection is a group of things

What kinds of things do people collect?

Why do people have collections?



Today you will make a collage. You will cut pictures out of  magazines to make a collection of your own. 










How did you decide which pictures to choose for your collection?










Friday, January 31, 2025

My Bedroom

 My Bedroom

Responding

7. Perceive and analyze artistic work.

A. Perceive

Identify uses of art within one's personal environment

Do you have any art in your home or in your bedroom? Do you have a lamp that is shaped like a dinosaur or a unicorn? A designer made that. 

We spent several weeks exploring buildings in art class. But everything so far has been about the outside.  Today let's explore the inside of houses.  The inside is certainly just as important!







Draw a Picture of your Bedroom!
Do you have any art hanging in your house/room? 
Why is it there?




Bedroom Furniture


IT's My Room




Art with Mati and Dada: Van Gogh