Classroom adventures!

It's so exciting to become involved with another teaching assignment. Each one is always different and challenging in its own way, and you always learn something new. Teaching is always an eye-opening experience. I learn so much from my students; their perspectives on ideas are usually viewpoints that I've never thought about, which is fun to think in a different way.


This idea leads me into an exercise that I did with my third graders on the first day of class. I wanted to see what they thought "imagination" meant to them. I talked about how our imagination is so important when creating art, and just in every day life how it helps us form and collaborate ideas. Art and imagination go hand-in-hand, and I wanted for them to write and sketch out what they thought imagination meant in each their own worlds. Here are some pretty incredible responses.

This got their minds ready and their juices flowing for a nice introduction for me to learn their names for a project called name art. I showed them  how to make block letters and all the different patterns we can put in the background of our name to make it stand out like a sculpture. They used color, texture, and patterns to create their names all in intricate and amazing ways!

Way to go, guys! Looking forward to next time. :)