Sign Language

I don't know about you,  but getting my students to communicate their ideas and thoughts without using words has been a challenge. So I introduced my 6th graders to sign language. My lesson required then to write their names as creatively as they choose in sign language. I the lesson came out well but,  as you can see in the image below the still decided to write in the letters of their names. 

A Starry Night.....Remixed!

In my 6th and 7th grade art elective class I challenged my students to create their own interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh's "A Starry Night".

One Point Perspective

With the help of http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/index.html, and my promethean board, I taught my 8th grade students how to draw a room in one-point perspective. Once we went through all of the steps they were challenged to draw their dream bedroom on their own. For my 6th and 7th grade elective class, I simplified the process and they had to create a hallway and these are the results.

Cherry Blossoms

March is Cherry Blossom season and since I teach in the Nations Capital, Washington, D.C., home of the National Cherry Blossom Festival I decided to have students to create landscape drawings of their city. Online, I found some beautiful pictures of the title basin and the cherry blossoms that I was able to print out in color. My 6th grade students recreated the landscape scenes using tempera paint, watercolor paint and white acrylic paint.