Jan 20-

6M- I'm a little annoyed at this group right now, to be perfectly honest. There was a lot of messing around. Well, maybe not tons, but more than is acceptable for me. Plus, they lost Collage for next week. It was trashed when I went to check on it. Not cool, and they will hear about it. What bums me out about this is there are several kids who just relish this time to work on their own artwork, and unless the majority of the group changes, they will not continue to have that opportunity.

2W- I didn't open any new materials for this group yet, though I should open fibers soon. Instead of having a mini lesson at the beginning of class, we had extra sharing time at the end. Usually I only have the kids share if they have extra time after clean up, but this group is so excited to share their work, and some kids are making great stuff, I wanted to give more students the opportunity to share if they wanted to.

5Ru- First day allowing a choice for this group. We talked about observational drawing, and then they had a drawing choice to practice observation or draw from imagination. There are a couple of boys for whom it's like pulling teeth to get anything out of them. Hopefully maybe some building centers will break them out of this. I've got to get some blocks and stuff.

3Sp- This class is the class that painted the lobby windows and had expressed interest in public art. We talked about Keith Haring today. Looked at haringkids.com (great website), and talked about what his work was like. (Of course edited to age appropriate content!) :) Then the students could choose to create some Haring-esque figures to place around the studio. They came up with some creative places. I'll have to do pictures. Not sure what else to talk about for public art with this group... will have to do some research...