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3,2,1  I just love the contrast of black and white, so to add to our thematic unit on Space I had my current 3rd graders create their own black and white spaceship. This was done within two 40 minutes classes. One class for adding pencil designs with very simple shapes and the other class period painting and outlining with one color of paint.  I have five 3rd grade classes. I wanted to

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How many of you have been in a school with nothing on the walls, boring hallways and the fluorescent bulbs just blaring? Who wants to learn in an environment like that? Now is the time to really promote your students and their art work.  In Northwest Ohio we have a wonderful museum,  The Toledo Museum of Art,  who helped sponsor our regional Youth Art Month show. The Director and CEO of

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Every year we have a school wide theme in our elementary school. We wear t-shirts that I design and everyone decorates their classroom with the same theme. This year’s theme is Space  with our mission statement being-  “Soaring to Success - L. Elementary Where Missions are Possible!”  My first graders are total ROCKSTARS!  Their excitement is so contagious that you just want them to

Hello there! Finally! I am back to school from the Arctic Freeze and Snowstorms of January. Yep, I taught only 9 days in January and part of February and some classes I have only seen once since Dec 20th! Yikes. Well, we have finally had a full week of school last week so students could get some projects done. :) If you are like me are you trying to find a different artist to inspire

Roses are red, Picasso was blue We love learning about Picasso and would like to show you! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I thought I would re-post one of my favorite projects. My little artists created various projects inspired by Picasso's Rose Period.   Picasso painted with blue paint for 4 years until he met a wonderful lady, fell in love and started using