On Friday I had the opportunity to go into a classroom to teach some art. This class was a class of sixth graders, and I have never taught that age before. I was hoping that I could interest them and yet challenge them at the same time. I was super thankful that I went into a class with a teacher who was willing to let me use her smart board to log into the blog so that I could show some examples of line to the students.
I decided to start with a warm up activity. I gave them each a sheet of paper and had them divide it into quarters. Then I wrote six adjectives on the board and had them choose four. Then they had to draw an expressive line that felt like it was descriptive to the adjective. I think it worked pretty good, because it got their minds open and ready for the real assignment.
Getting a partner was then next step I asked them to follow. I asked them to draw their partner with one continuous line. They only had about 5-7 minutes each. Each group had one person pose first, and the other person draw then they had to switch so that the other person could draw. I was quite impressed with how wonderfully they did on this. I did have to go around and remind them not to take their pencils off the paper. Some kids I even gave them a new paper, because they were not following directions at all. Unfortunately there will always be some who decide to just not really try at all and will just be silly the whole time. I have found that the older the kids the less likely I am able to get ALL the kids to really WANT to participate. Luckily, that is just a seldom few.
Since I gave that assignment on Friday, I decided to try it out myself on Saturday. I used one of my kids as a model.
I really quite enjoyed myself. I think my son enjoyed seeing the result. Maybe one day he will let me draw him again.On Friday I had the opportunity to go into a classroom to teach some art. This class was a class of sixth graders, and I have never taught that age before. I was hoping that I could interest them and yet challenge them at the same time. I was super thankful that I went into a class with a teacher who was willing to let me use her smart board to log into the blog so that I could show some examples of line to the students.
I decided to start with a warm up activity. I gave them each a sheet of paper and had them divide it into quarters. Then I wrote six adjectives on the board and had them choose four. Then they had to draw an expressive line that felt like it was descriptive to the adjective. I think it worked pretty good, because it got their minds open and ready for the real assignment.
Getting a partner was then next step I asked them to follow. I asked them to draw their partner with one continuous line. They only had about 5-7 minutes each. Each group had one person pose first, and the other person draw then they had to switch so that the other person could draw. I was quite impressed with how wonderfully they did on this. I did have to go around and remind them not to take their pencils off the paper. Some kids I even gave them a new paper, because they were not following directions at all. Unfortunately there will always be some who decide to just not really try at all and will just be silly the whole time. I have found that the older the kids the less likely I am able to get ALL the kids to really WANT to participate. Luckily, that is just a seldom few.
Since I gave that assignment on Friday, I decided to try it out myself on Saturday. I used one of my kids as a model.
I really quite enjoyed myself. I think my son enjoyed seeing the result. Maybe one day he will let me draw him again.
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