As we study different artists, students have been taught to give verbal and written art critiques using appropriate vocabulary. In one of th...

Another station that the students may choose to work in is an Art Career Station. In this Art Based Station, the Kindergarten and First Grad...

One of the Art Based Stations that third through fifth grade may choose to work on when they finish work early or on Fridays is an Artist Qu...

On most Fridays, the students work in Art Based Learning Stations. One of the stations is Artist Research Writing. In this station, the stud...

Before teaching Visual Arts, I taught First Grade. With that background, I believe that "Word Walls" are a good reference for stud...

As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the 4th and 5th graders wrote art critiques over Alligator Effigy Vessel from Chorotega, Costa Rica. A...

As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the 4th and 5th graders wrote art critiques over Pepe Santiago's wood carved sculpture, Lizard Ale...

This is a lesson I always did when I taught first grade. Now that I'm in art, I extended it to a collaborative project for Kinder throug...

I recently attended a training given by my Fine Arts supervisor, Mrs. Judy Nunneley. In the class we cut out various words from magazines an...

First Graders wrote letters to Kindergarten last week to tell them what to expect next year. They wrote about their favorite lessons, activi...

The students wrote papers about what their robots could do if they were real. They described what problem their robot would solve and how th...

A few weeks ago the students used PebbleGo to research one inventor of their choose. They wrote their facts on a Circle Map. They then used ...

Through one of our Empowering Writers lessons, the students wrote about awesome dogs. They could write about their own dog or another dog. T...

Friday first grade had a guest speaker to share information about her job in the promotions department of KISS FM radio. Ms. Guterriez, who ...

After reading A Bad Case of Stripes and Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students created Venn Diagrams to compare the stories. After cre...

While reading David Shannon books, we also learned about him as an author and illustrator. We watched a short interview with him from Schola...

We visited the computer lab on Thursday so the students could research an inventor of their choice on their own. We use PebbleGo as our mai...

In Social Studies the students are learning about various inventors and their contributions to society. The first inventor they are learning...