Monday, January 26, 2015

Blizzard Bag #1 Assigned!

Well Snow Day number 6 arrived! (But it was such pretty snow!)

On the right side of the blog there is a tab that is labeled Blizzard Bags 2015! Click there and all 3 days are posted. Please complete assignments in your sketchbook OR...on any piece of paper you may have at home! You have two weeks to turn in your Blizzard Bags!!! I will post a reminder in the ArtRoom!!!
Stay warm!!!

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

You want me to talk about WHAT?


Being the Art Teacher is great! 
Normally!
One of the hardest things that I need to teach my students is how to respond to art work with something other than, "That's Cool!"

Using a game often referred to as Token Response students were introduced to a number of famous and not so famous artworks.  They were also given 8 different tokens to place on the artwork. 
Tokens ranged from a heart to represent like, to a dollar sign that represented which artwork they thought would cost the most.



Placing tokens.



Discussing artworks and sharing ideas (Which happened a lot!)


And finally sharing why they made the choices that they did! 

As an introduction to art criticism, these 7th graders did great!