Elements Of Art

2 weeks ago I attended a tech conference in Portland. I told the students I would be learning new ways to use my iPad in the classroom. One app I learned about is called 30 Hands. It's a great, easy to use app that allows you to make video presentations with photos, drawings and your voice. I created a tutorial for how to use the 30 Hands app, with the 30 Hands app. Here is that tutorial:

It's a free app and you may want to download it for your child to use at home! 

They created a video presentation using 30 Hands to share about the first part of our unit on the Elements of Art. Here is their video: 

Didn't they do a wonderful job?!

Part 2 of our art unit coming next week!

Classroom Party

We are going to all share our item. We get to do favorite persons we like.

Everybody is going to call on two people. Everybody gets to choose which item they would like to pick. Our class party is so much fun.  

** All of the above work is by students. In our previous post you read, I thought them reflecting back would be a great idea. They did a wonderful job of reflecting. Great ideas were shared such as: Add more pictures. Make our words longer. Make it so all people are in the pictures and on the blog. Then when we got to planning I think the excitement of the topic was too distracting. No worries! We will reflect again and take a look back at some our favorite past posts to do a better job next time! In all fairness, we actually had 5 days of school this week, we were minutes away from a class party and we had spent an hour and a half without electricity today. We heard a squirrel and a transformer collided! :)

Choice Time

Everything below this paragraph was completely designed by students. I used an app called Edutopia on the iPad to take notes for them. I used a software called Reflector to have my ipad mirrored through my computer and projector so students could see how things were going to be, for the most part. When a student raised their hand to suggest an addition to the post, all I said was what do you want to say and where should it go? I was so impressed. I know they will get better each time! I took a screen shot of their plan. That is at the very bottom below then post.

We work hard to try and earn choice time because it is so so much fun.

We get picked by our sticks.

You get to play with your favorite toy. 

We get to color on paper. We get to play with blocks. 

We get to play Lincoln logs and Legos.

We get to play with geoboards.

We get to play dominoes.

We get to play unifix cubes. We get to play with foam blocks.

We get to play with puzzles.

These are the pictures.

We get to play with sentence puzzles.

When we are done with choice our teacher tells us. The teacher tells us to clean up when we're all done. Then we clean up quietly and safely. Then when we're done, we go to the carpet. When we clean then we wait until our teacher says a row.

We have fun playing blocks.

On choice time we can't move to other tables and don't do anything else. You have to stay where you are.

As you can see they worked very hard. I still think they picked the topic of choice time because they thought they would get choice time... Their faces looked sad when I said we we're taking only 2 pictures like they told me for the blog. Next time I suspect more picture additions buy them. :)

Recess!!

This is an exciting post because it's the first post where the students chose the theme, told me what words should be on the blog and chose the pictures. All I did was write, take pictures, type and upload pictures. They brainstormed several wonderful ideas which we will post about over the weeks to come. So here is what they had to say about recess:

"I like to play basketball." 

"I like to play in the structure." - Albert

"I like hula hooping." - Calley

"I like playing with a big jump rope." - Rebecca

"I like to play on the yellow spinning tube."

"I like playing on the swings." - Taylor

"I like to have fun at recess." - Bryonna

"I like to play on the purple monkey bars." - Travis

"I like to go to the big slide." - Emma

"I like to play on the yellow monkey bars." - Pacey

"I like to play on the swings." - Aleah

"I like to play wall ball." - Juvanna

"I like playing on the monkey bars." - Savannah

"I like to go down the pole." - Evan

"I like to play on the yellow pole." - Brayden

"I like to play on the grass." - Nolan

"I like to go down the pole." - Isaac