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My good friend Karen finally shared her award winning lesson with me.  It is a wonderful exploration into  non-Objective watercolor painting based on color theory.  I had to refresh my vocabulary while presenting this to my amazing 4th graders last week.  We explored the world of Tertiary or Intermediate colors. Here are the basic supplies  fine point sharpie, prang paints 90 lb cold press  watercolor paper, and a color wheel. I review with my students the primary and secondary colors with part of this video. We have so many new ELL student's and this was a great tutorial. After setting our table to paint, the students painted a ribbon color wheel.  We started with yellow, leaving a space a painting another amorphic shape of the secondary color orange. Using a wet brush they pulled the colors together to make the Tertiary color shape.  We used small color wheels to progress around the whee...

I finally have 6 iPads in my classroom. We jumped right into using them with the Do Ink Green screen app . The student's created themselves in a future job using marker on card stock. The green straws were a donation from Starbucks!  The student's added a background picture from safe picture sights that I linked on my notes.   Here were my directions. Find a free background picture to copy on Pics4Learning.com or photosforclass.com.                                         Links are on your Ipad’s notes app Download the picture you want or take a screenshot of it. Crop the picture with the edit. (remove the surrounding junk and adjust color) make the picture your own image by changing it. Save this photo as your Background to the Camer...

I didn't venture anywhere this spring break except into Dallas.  It has rained all week! Yesterday my husband treated me to a day at the museums and staying overnight at the  Hyatt Reunion. We even used Uber to go to dinner. We are living on the wild side!! My week started off with a surprise Birthday visit from my daughter who is a grad student at NYC.  we did some shopping at Northpark.... She stayed until Sunday and now is off to India for an  NYU field trip. (this explains why I am a nervous wreak this week) Anyway, she will do fine and is sharing many amazing pictures with us on Instagram ecarter5689 What would we do with out apps and social media. Speaking of which, a new Facebook Group was started yesterday for Art Teachers who Blog.  Are you in that group??? Back to my rainy week.... I had great plans to work out and plant my garden and I got about half that done.  I did bring my school I pads hom...

These two are best ever kids, and they were so nice to let me take their picture at 7 am.   Their mom is our Kinder teacher and  I have known them since they were born.  The art work is up, the open house is over, but the images remain. I created to photo booths for parents to take pictures of their kids and remember the night.  It is always a hit.  I am so glad I ordered these flags and letters earlier in the school year. I boxed up my letters to use again with my props. Michaels has the best wooden props! All of these props help since I needed to put it up quickly.  This year's open house was a Flower Themed event.  I was so proud of each grade level as they created some amazing works of art.  It was so nice to receive so many compliments from parents, teachers and kids!  Third grade slab vases with their lovely flowers, Sunflower pinch pots created by 2nd graders and 1st grad...