Penguin Snowglobe
This project was taught to childern ages ranging from 3 years old and 9 years old.
Description of Project: Students work on their fine motor skills by practing coloring inside the lines as well as working on their cutting skills. Students can add more drawings inside the snowglobe. Teacher added snow and hot glue the snowglobe shut.
Reflection: If I were to teach this lesson again, I would have more examples of other things students can add into their snowglobes. Have more options such as preprinted snowman and trees. For older students having students explore creating portotions for a foreground, middle ground, and background.
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Texture and Value
This lesson was taught to a kindergraden cluster room.
Description of Project: Students work on their fine motor skills by practing holding crayons and coloring a whole shape. Students practice glueing and placing the parts of the project together. Students practice writing their names. Teacher pre-cut the parts of the project and helped with hand over hand depending on the individaul student's needs.
Reflection: If I were to teach this lesson again, I would give students a washable marker to trace their name because once students have colored the hat the name became less noticeable and harder to trace if the student did not trace their name before coloring in their hat.
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Texture Trees
These drawing lessons were taught during my student teaching experience to pre-kindergraden.
Description of Project: Students learned about different types of lines and then learned about different textures throughout the week. This project students learned about how to use line to create the texture of a tree. First the students where given stripes of painters tape to place down on their water color paper.The teacher talked about how the leaves of trees change colors during the fall. Then students painted their whole paper with the colors of their choice. After the paper dried the teacher removed the tape and students practiced their fine motor skills by adding the lines to create the texture of the bark/
Reflection: If I were to teach this lesson again, I would include better quality paper for students to use. This way the paper will have more grit and better support the different values students are trying to create.
Student work
Texture Tree
I taught this project to a kindergraden cluster room.
Description of Project: Students are working on mine motor skills and holding materials such as paint brushes and crayons. This project students learned about how trees change colors during the fall. The teacher prepared the watercolor papers ahead of time by adding painters tape in the shape of a tree. Students painted their whole paper with the colors of their choice. After the paper dried the teacher removed the tape and students practiced their fine motor skills by adding the lines to create the texture of the bark. Teacher did hand over hand with some of the students when adding their lines to the tree.
Reflection: If I were to teach this lesson again, I would do this project in smaller groups for this particular group of students needed more one on one assistance.
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