First Post of the Year!!! Prep Watercolour Lines

First investigations table

Prep S

New communication board!

Rules and Consequences!

Here it is folks! - it is posted up in the art room beside the smart board

I have carefully chosen these rules and consequences to create a safe engaging learning environment. Classes are to work as a "community of learners" where students' choices have an impact on one another. These rules and consequences are to help students understand that if they make poor choices then they not only impact their own art learning but the learning of their peers and my teaching. If the art room is full of smart choices it is happy and productive as students can develop their passion for art in a positive environment!

ART ROOM RULES

BE READY TO LEARN
RESPECT YOUR TEACHER

LISTEN CAREFULLY 
USE YOUR MANNERS

FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
USE MATERIALS APPROPRIATELY

KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF 

BE HELPFUL DURING CLEANUP

BE  KIND TO  EVERYONE

MAKE SMART CHOICES

TRY YOUR BEST

Consequences

1.   First Warning- “Stop and make a better choice”

2.   Second Warning- move to another part of the room

3.   Third warning- apology note at play/removal from the room

Everyone has the right to learn and create in the art room

Students who continue to make poor choices will be sent to Rob or Cate’s office

The First 7 Days in the Art Room

1 week down!!! I had a great week in the art room. I am sooo excited to get students started on their projects. Students have been wonderful and are very enthusiastic about their first art project for this year. Keep up the enthusiasm!

Something I saw on a blog and thought it needed be on my wall!

YES!

Year 5s and 6s are getting ready to dive into their own art pieces, but not before we sort out a few goals!

Year 4s spent 1 class designing their piece of art and copying their design to a piece of calico. 4N was the first class to start sewing as their art class is on Friday and we started school on last Thursday. Needless to say I was impressed with them.

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Im glad she thinks so

Year 3s have finished creating their stories and some classes have started weaving. Judging by what I have seen so far I think we can fit another project in!

"Brekky!" how very Australian

I guess the who artistic process inspired her to create this story

Preps show off their mark making by learning about the different types of lines. Next week we paint!

Follow the Line

AMAZING RIGHT!!!

Gearing up for an exciting new year.

School starts in less than two weeks, which means I am busy finishing up my year overview. Well art is very personalised, I am delving deeper into creating a more personalised learning curriculum which offers students more authentic choices in art. At times I find it difficult and frustrating to come up with lessons that take full advantage of students voice but I am still learning. I am constantly asking myself what do I need to provide my students with that will allow them to take full advantage of their artistic behaviour.

This year I look forward to watching students take ownership of their learning, while they create, explore, problem solve, discover, and most importantly, take risks in art.

I hope you have enjoyed the previous posts from last year. This is my first full year of teaching Art and one of my goals is to document every art lesson that I teach in the Art Room.

Unwanted Items for the Art Room?

Hi All,

Thanks for checking our art blog when you can. There is an option to click older posts at the bottom of the page or you click on each grade under the "labels" category on the right hand side. If anyone has the following items lying around the house, please feel free to throw them our way.

Colourful Wool and or Embroidery Thread
Old colourful magazines for collages (travel, food, garden etc)
Old Maps
Recycled thin cardboard (cereal and cracker boxes etc)
Buttons

Any arty donations are always welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,

Leyna

Front Bulletin Board by my Door

Includes:
Principles and Elements of Art and Design
The Focuses for Art across the Levels
Classroom Rules
Fire Drill Procedures
Blooms Revisted Taxonomy

I really should say "Do Amazing Work"

I have not sent a note home to any parents, fingers crossed!

A bit about myself

Welcome to ourartadventures blog. I am so excited to get this blog up and running, be sure to check back often for updates and photos of the things we've been doing in art class.

10 facts about myself:

1.    I graduated in 2009 from UBCO in Kelowna, Canada.

2.    I lived and taught in London for a year.

3.    I moved to Melbourne for love.

4.    I have travelled to 21 countries.

5.    My favourite styles of art are abstract expressionism and surrealism.

6.    In Canada I organized and ran a summer camp for 3 years.

7.    I collect children’s literature.

8.    My favorite artists are Miro, Hundertwasser and Yellena James.

9.    My favorite author right now is Haruki Murakami.

10.    I love to laugh, especially at myself.

This year I have had the pleasure of teaching at Elwood casually and may have already taught your child/children. I am absolutely thrilled to teach here full time and look forward to getting to know the students, staff and parents. 

Jacqui has created a fabulous art unit for the year and I will be sticking closely to her original vision. If you have any questions for me please don’t be afraid to email or, better yet, come see me in the art room. 

Thanks, 

Leyna