too many snow days and tons of other crazy stuff in life going on.... I'm just going to update today and let my notes from my planbook help me for the past week or so.

5M- We talked about more possibilities for Collage. Using negative space, overlapping, using pieces of paper to make a larger shape, tearing edges instead of cutting, and wrapping/weaving paper around each other. This class is super creative. I think every single student is already pretty deeply involved in a project, many lasting more than one class period. I need to get some pictures of what's going on over there. This group especially takes a lot of pride in their work, and loves to tell me about it when it's in progress or finished.

6Fz- Probably one of the best classes so far with this, sometimes trying for me, group. We talked about the same collage stuff as the 5th graders had. I have had one student in this class who has been "working with" other students a lot. I finally told the student today that she needed to be making work. She started working on a project and seems enthusiastic about it. I feel like maybe it's one of those situations where the student didn't expect their work to come out so well, and now that it is she's surprising herself.

Schedule change this afternoon to accommodate an observation for my mentoring.

1L- Probably the worst observation I've ever had. Actually, definitely the worst. I'm trying to figure out what the best thing is to do to introduce the littler grades to fibers. I read online that really young kids should be able to do simple finger knitting, so I thought this might be more successful than the god's eyes. Nope, Fail. Several kids were able to successfully figure it out. In the future, this needs to be a small group project, then those in the small group can teach others who want to learn. Blargh.

KD- We played Art Detective with Seurat's The Circus, and they had a painting or drawing choice. It went well. At the end, we handed back clay projects from the last couple of weeks.

1N- Went over glazing. I put a hold on Cardboard Construction for this week, and instead many kids did clay building or glazing. They were very loud. But it was kind of funny, because everything they were talking about was having to do with their work. I had a hard time telling them we had to have silent art because it was just deafening, but it was the only way to get the volume down.

Anyway- craziness in life this week coupled with the most chaotic observation ever makes me not very verbose....