”Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match”
”The Most Magnificent Thing”
24 NEW LESSONS ADDED!!
I just added 24 new art lessons for grades K – 5! This is the first year in my district to teach art to Kindergarten as well!
They have been added to the bottoms of each page under each grade level page (see under menu options). Lessons include steps, photos, and learning goals.
These are the new lessons added:
Kindergarten
- Paper diffusing leaves w/ marker and water
- Leaf rubbings w/ textured frame
- Bugs in a jar
- “Little cloud “ inspired by Eric Carle
- Organic and geometric shapes Robot
1st grade
- Fall tree drawing
- Lines makes shapes “house”
- Sunflower drawing inspired by Vincent Van Gogh
2nd grade
- April showers brings May flowers
- Pumpkin tinfoil prints
- Owls at night
- Snowman in perspective
- Superhero masks
3rd grade
- 3D heart
- Sunflowers inspired by Vincent Van Gogh
- Spider monkey inspired by Frida Kahlo
4th grade
- Patterned pumpkin with oil pastel
- Dotted leaf paintings inspired by Brandon Rollin
- Spooky eyeball drawings
- Symmetrical name creature
- Box of chocolates
- Tiger paintings inspired by Henri Rousseau
5th grade
- Finish the picture
- A love yourself drawing
Please follow our art room adventures …(well, more like art on a cart for one of my schools!) AND
@mammalovespeaches on Instagram! Thanks for following! More to come!
Two NEW Read-a-loud’s!
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
Art Room Book Collection
I finally posted all my art room books! (listed under the page ”Art Room Book Collection”) Here are a few that I posted. There’s 97 books total.
“Willow” Read-aloud
Written by Denise Brennan-Nelson and Rosemarie Brennan, illustrated by Cyd Moore
I know I’ve been posting only read-alouds the past two weeks, (and I’ve been having fun creating them btw!) but I will be posting new student artwork VERY soon!!
“Sky Color” Read-aloud
Written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
“Bridget’s Beret” Read-aloud
“Bridget’s Beret” written and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
This story and others are also posted under ”Storytime” under the drop down menu.
I’ll be adding new student artwork here very soon! Can’t wait to share with you what my students have been up to in art!
“Frog and Toad Are Friends” READ-ALOUD
“Frog and Toad Are Friends” one of my favorite classic book series from childhood.
Written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
This read- aloud video contains 2 short stories from the book (“Spring” and “A Lost Button”)
“NEVER LET A PRINCESS PAINT WITH HER UNICORN!” READ-ALOUD
Book written and illustrated by Diane Alber
“The Big Orange Splot” READ-ALOUD
I created a new page on this blog of my video read-alouds for kids (I’m calling it STORYTIME), and for teachers to use in their classrooms.
So far I’ve only recorded one book, but I am excited to add and share more very, very soon! I have a ton of books in my collection in my art room and I recently purchased 2 more children’s books!
If there are any short picture books that you would like for me to add to my videos, please let me know (you can email me under my contact page) Thank you! I hope you like it!