My SLO this year is focusing a bit closer on the Elements of Art than I have in the past several years. Previously I had all the elemen...

Eric Carle's Tiny Seed  is a wonderful book for young kids. They love catching on that it's a circle story and enjoy how big th...

For this project, kindergartners started by listening to me read Straight Line Wonder  by Mem Fox. The story is about three straight li...

Fourth graders focused on shape, balance, and symmetry while creating drawings of Raven: A Trickster Tale.  After hearing the s...

Students started by listening to A-B-A-B-A A Book of Pattern Play.  Full disclosure, I did skip a few pages as it got a little bit to m...

Fifth graders started the year by learning about the Day of the Dead. I created a Nearpod presentation that the students participated i...

Fourth graders read Follow the Line by Laura Ljungkvist and talked about line in art. I created a quick presentation about cityscapes a...

I stumbled upon this great lesson on Pinterest, which lead to this blog post  and introduced me to Dutch artist Ton Schulten. I created...

I've done this project with my second graders many times over the years. They always turn out extremely well, and the kids get a ...