We’ve progressed from lines to cubism in art class now, and are focusing on Pablo Picasso.
“Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists” is a series that I love to use. It does a great job on Pablo! Continue Reading
What is a religious vocation?
Now that I am both a teacher AND a vocation director, I dash between hats all day long. Recently, I combined them.
That’s because I wanted to make a video for vocation presentations. You might not need to make a vocation presentation per se, but I thought you’d be interested in the video as a tool for your own use. (Of course, you may be discerning your own vocation. 🙂 Be sure to holler if you are!) Continue Reading
Teaching colors … patiently! :)
My favorite book for introducing colors to young kids is Mouse Paint. It’s the story of 3 white mice who mix their 3 jars of paint to make new colors.
It’s a great visual for my preschool through second graders. They learn the difference between primary and secondary colors as we read. At the end of the story, we review. Then we put on our paint shirts and HAVE FUN! Continue Reading
Pinwheels whirling at Grace!
Our Pinwheels for Peace program got some media attention!!! Here’s the Dispatch’s account (the featured photo here is from the Dispatch, too):
“Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy preschoolers Avery Beeller and Payton Creger get ready to plant their “pinwheels for peace” on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, on the lawn at 18th Avenue and 6th Street in East Moline.
Pinwheels for Peace!
We’ve been making pinwheels at school. They are full of color, pretty as can be! But that’s just one reason we’re making them.
We’re participating in Pinwheels for Peace, a project to show – and pray! – our support for peacemaking efforts worldwide. Continue Reading
With heart and helping hands, a child can achieve anything!
Here are our hands (drawn during our unit on lines), preschool – 2nd grade, helping and holding one another.
Thanks, Sister Catherine Maloney, for being my helping hands at the monastery and cutting out these beautiful works of art for the bulletin board!!!! ❤
Painting with Preschoolers
The 1st day of painting with preschoolers is always exciting. (And THAT’S an understatement!)
We started with the rules:
1. The blue paint brush stays with the blue paint. The red paint brush stays with the red paint. Otherwise our bright, pretty colors will turn dull! Continue Reading
When dots walk together, look what they can make!
My 2nd graders took the dots to lines lesson farther than the younger kids last week. They made geometric shapes. How? Continue Reading
A dot that takes a walk …
If you teach, you might create a Word Wall every year. I always used to as a preschool teacher, and now I’m working on one for my art classes. It’s a little different!
For example, our first vocabulary word is “line.” Turns out it’s hard to define … especially for little ones. Continue Reading
A Bunch of Simple Lines
Curvy, zig-zaggy, straight and dotted … diagonal, vertical, curly and broken: lines come in all kinds of forms!
Grace kids from preschool through 2nd grade are learning about lines this week, and boy have we had fun. Continue Reading
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