Thursday, July 26, 2018

New Art Room Jitters

So it's the end of July and the talk of welcoming back to school events is starting! I am very excited for my 8th year of teaching and I will be at the same school for the 5th year in a row. I really like the school, staff, and community which is why I have stayed for so long. This year I will be getting a new art room, and I cannot wait. I just don't know what it will look like and it's driving me nuts!!!!! How am I going to decorate it? Where will I put all of my art supplies. How will I organize it? The construction workers are still working on it, so I will not have access to my new art room until the day teachers return.  I have gotten lots of new things at from the Target Dollar Bins and picked up some other things during the summer to help decorate my new room. My mom also just retired from teaching so she has things to give me as well. I just don't how I'm going to fit everything into my car! haha....How are other people decorating their rooms?

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Summer Update!

Sorry I haven't updated in forever. My school is getting renovated so towards the end of the year I has the task of packing up all of my art room since it should be ready by the time I report back in August. I taught art camp all last week, and went to a 2 day training sponsored by Dick Blick Art materials and the NAEA in Alexandria, VA. This is the first real week of my break where I don't have anything planned. I have started to collect some new items for my classroom, and Target has their back to school stuff already out. Therefore I have been visiting there frequently to see what they have! My Mom got me a cricut for my birthday so I've been busy playing around with that as well

3rd Grade: Gustav Klimt "Tree of Life" Citizen Trees

My school is a PYP/IB school and for 3rd grade the classroom teachers are focusing on "Who We Are" in terms of citizens and the ro...