Charlie, Charlie, Are You Here (In Art Class)?
I will write about many things. Sometimes, it will be about the warm and fuzzy things. At other times, it will be about mundane things. Occasionally, though, I will comment […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Bookmarks for Literacy
Jennifer Carlisle over at The Art of Education turned me on to Students Rebuild, an organization she learned about at the 2015 National Art Education Association (NAEA) annual conference. The Bezos […]
Blessings (Vignette 2)
Blessing Today (Picture it, a demonstration to a class of 20 Kindergarteners.) Me: “Class, did you know that learning makes your brain bigger? Every piece of information you learn makes […]
How Driving at Night Is Like Teaching
Though this quote is from an author (actually, two!), I read it and immediately thought of a couple recent days I experienced at school. E. L. Doctorow once said that ‘writing […]
Creativity and the Art of Making Mistakes
I came across a quote about creativity and art that wonderfully illustrates the relationship between art, mistakes and learning. I had heard it before so I decided to do some […]
Cool Shot Super Low Temperature Glue Gun Review
I teach K-3 and when supply orders came around last year one of the need-to-buy items for me were kid-friendly glue guns. Well, low and behold I discovered the Cool […]
Bugging Out: Julie Alice Chappell’s Recycled Electronic Insect Art
Today’s inspiration comes from UK-based artist, Julie Alice Chappell. Her unique creations give new life to old circuit boards and electronic components. Delicately handcrafted into delightful winged insects, Chappell’s artworks […]
Crazy Color Fauvist Landscapes
My First Graders are studying Fauvism. To explore this super fun art movement, I taught my students about the landscape. Anatomy of a Landscape I teach my kids that a […]
Blessings (Vignette 1)
I decided to start a new series of posts called Blessings. Teaching is rough profession. Many outside the profession like to give lip service to that thought, but the statistics […]
Avoiding Illness in the Art Room
A couple of weeks ago, I contracted a nasty case of pink eye (conjunctivitis). How nasty was it, you ask? It was so nasty it caused my eye to swell […]
The Poetry of Seeing 