1L- Warm fuzzies for this class today. Instead of learning a new material today (I thought introducing something new would be a little hectic, after the fibers last week being a little hard for most kids. ), we played "Art Detective." :) (This is me sneaking art criticism/art history into my classes.)

We talked about what detectives do, and then we looked at "Waiting for the Train" by Garin Baker. The kids described what they saw, then began to tell me what they thought was happening. Amazing. I mean, honestly, this was more than I could get out of HS students looking at work last year. They told me about the figures, used clues to guess that the picture was in NYC, and told me what they were doing. It was awesome. Then we had our usual centers open, and some of the kids who worked on the god's eyes last week continued to do so this week. This was a smaller group and it was much easier to work with them and have them feel good about what they were doing with the yarn. Excellent clean up. Super stars today.

5Ri- This class had a sub today, and I gathered that they were being a little more difficult than usual... Considering that, class went quite well. They had earned their "Free Art" class, so they could choose from their regular choices, or modeling clay, or scratch art. I was surprised by the number of kids who chose the scratch art, after all the clamoring this class has done for clay! jeez. :) They were well on time, so they had lots of studio time. I also enjoyed seeing that several kids continued to work on their regular projects, rather than jumping into something new just because it was available.