Showing posts with label creative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2013
Carolyn Braden's Ultimate Art Teacher Cart
Being an art on a cart teacher, I needed more organization. I searched for the perfect cart, ordered one and it still wasn't right. I thought about my needs and just decided to design my own. Thankfully I have a very talented husband who was able to make my ideas come to life. With a little organization supplies from Lowe's and IKEA, it's perfect. I think I may need to market this. It would work as a great mobile organizational unit for any teacher.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Upcoming Projects: October 2012
After students assess their Square 1 projects, they will continue to stay busy in my art class!
Here's what we'll be working on in October:
Kinders: "Shapes" Mosaics
1st: African Symmetrical Masks
2nd: Pop Art, The Still Life
3rd: African Sunsets
4th: Native American Shields
5th: Kentucky Celebrations, Derby Style Art
The 2nd and 3rd grade students will be participating in the PTA Reflections contest with their upcoming projects. The 5th graders will be participating in the Derby Festival and Derby Museum "Horsing Around With Art" contests with their upcoming projects.
We also do "Be Creative" Centers every six weeks and students will be receiving their first "Art Store" paycheck very soon.
Here's what we'll be working on in October:
Kinders: "Shapes" Mosaics
1st: African Symmetrical Masks
2nd: Pop Art, The Still Life
3rd: African Sunsets
4th: Native American Shields
5th: Kentucky Celebrations, Derby Style Art
The 2nd and 3rd grade students will be participating in the PTA Reflections contest with their upcoming projects. The 5th graders will be participating in the Derby Festival and Derby Museum "Horsing Around With Art" contests with their upcoming projects.
We also do "Be Creative" Centers every six weeks and students will be receiving their first "Art Store" paycheck very soon.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Carolyn Braden's KMAC Blackacre Camp Project Results
I taught this braided coil basket project to middle school age students at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Crafts. I'd say they did a fantastic job! Some didn't know how to braid, thread a needle or even sew. By the end of the lesson, they all picked up the skills and created creative baskets. 
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Be Creative Center Day!
If my classes earn 6 crayons (they get one crayon per week based on good behavior) they get to have a Be Creative Center Day. Students have the entire class time to do various activities such as finger weaving, straw construction, play balancing games, Lego architecture and more. Here are some of the super creative things grades K-5 made over the past couple of weeks.
Is this students a future Frank Lloyd Wright?
Great balancing!
A creative way to learn spelling words?
Carolyn J. Braden
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Is this students a future Frank Lloyd Wright?
Great balancing!
A creative way to learn spelling words?
Carolyn J. Braden
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Thursday, November 11, 2010
New Rotation Starts on Tuesday and Update!
We are finishing up another rotation of classes. The classes I have now (1, 2, 4, 5) have finished up their License to Vote contest entries. The selection of who will represent Byck at the LTV Contest Finale in the spring is now underway. The two entries selected will be finalists and their art will go to compete with other JCPS elementary students.
5th grade is now working on Graffiti Arts: The good, the bad, and the beautiful.
4th grade is now working on The Three Me's, a Portrait Unit. They will create Self Portraits in Oil Pastel, Collage, and 3-D Sculpture.
2nd grade is now working on When Pigasso Met Mootise: Portraits of the Artists. (Guided Drawing)
1st grade is now working on The Rainbow Fish Portraits. (Guided Drawing)
Kindergarten has finished their Watch Me Draw projects and are now working on their Shape Mosaics. They will then create Piet Mondrian Collages with primary colors, shapes, and lines.
All classes have been working on their "I Can....." statements. At the end of every class, students state what they can tell me about what they learned during the class periods. They use their art vocabulary when telling me their statements. We are also doing a multiple choice quiz orally as part of their end of class review. The students are so smart! Every student raises their hands when we do our reviews.
The end of the rotation is on Monday and the whole rotation of classes starts over on Tuesday. I am excited to welcome Caroline Zama, our Artist in Resident! She will be working with my fifth graders for a week to create clay tiles. Each student will make 2 tiles. One tile will be a low relief self-portrait of the student, and the second tile will be a mural background piece. All the tiles will be put together in a Byck inspired mural when the residency is complete. Ms. Zama will be working with all 5th graders on this project, as their classes rotate to art. We are doing the residency via the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. I am working to get another residency going for the 3rd grade. If my grant application is approved (fingers crossed!) students in the 3rd grade will work with Louisville artist Michelle Amos to create Native American Kachina Dolls.
After the new year, I have planned a field trip for the second grade. With funds from our wonderful Fund for the Arts 5x5 Grant, the students will go to the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, tour the museum, eat lunch there, and create a 3-D clay cube project.
My student teacher, Lauren Williams, will be finishing her time up in my room on December 1st. She taught this rotation of classes and had done wonderfully! She has loved working with your talented students. Wish her luck in her future goal of being an art educator!
So many great things going on this year! Check back soon for more pics and updates!
5th grade is now working on Graffiti Arts: The good, the bad, and the beautiful.
4th grade is now working on The Three Me's, a Portrait Unit. They will create Self Portraits in Oil Pastel, Collage, and 3-D Sculpture.
2nd grade is now working on When Pigasso Met Mootise: Portraits of the Artists. (Guided Drawing)
1st grade is now working on The Rainbow Fish Portraits. (Guided Drawing)
Kindergarten has finished their Watch Me Draw projects and are now working on their Shape Mosaics. They will then create Piet Mondrian Collages with primary colors, shapes, and lines.
All classes have been working on their "I Can....." statements. At the end of every class, students state what they can tell me about what they learned during the class periods. They use their art vocabulary when telling me their statements. We are also doing a multiple choice quiz orally as part of their end of class review. The students are so smart! Every student raises their hands when we do our reviews.
The end of the rotation is on Monday and the whole rotation of classes starts over on Tuesday. I am excited to welcome Caroline Zama, our Artist in Resident! She will be working with my fifth graders for a week to create clay tiles. Each student will make 2 tiles. One tile will be a low relief self-portrait of the student, and the second tile will be a mural background piece. All the tiles will be put together in a Byck inspired mural when the residency is complete. Ms. Zama will be working with all 5th graders on this project, as their classes rotate to art. We are doing the residency via the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. I am working to get another residency going for the 3rd grade. If my grant application is approved (fingers crossed!) students in the 3rd grade will work with Louisville artist Michelle Amos to create Native American Kachina Dolls.
After the new year, I have planned a field trip for the second grade. With funds from our wonderful Fund for the Arts 5x5 Grant, the students will go to the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, tour the museum, eat lunch there, and create a 3-D clay cube project.
My student teacher, Lauren Williams, will be finishing her time up in my room on December 1st. She taught this rotation of classes and had done wonderfully! She has loved working with your talented students. Wish her luck in her future goal of being an art educator!
So many great things going on this year! Check back soon for more pics and updates!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Carolyn Braden Says "Welcome to Braden's Art Stars!"
Welcome to my new blog, Braden's Art Stars! This blog will be used to document all the wonderful artwork my students will be working on this year. We have a great year ahead of us. This will be my fourth year teaching at Byck, and I am looking forward to seeing all my wonderful, talented students. I love that I can start off this year knowing how much my students know. They are all so smart and know so much about art! After teaching them the past three years, I know their artistic abilities. Due to them always meeting the challenges I put in front of them, I know we will soar in some more advanced projects I have planned for them this year.
This year I will be taking photos of the student's projects in the making and posting them to this blog site. Bookmark this page on your computer so you can check back often to see what my students are working on.
http://bradensartstars.blogspot.com/
Sincerely,
Carolyn Braden
Art Teacher, Byck Elementary
Louisville, KY
This year I will be taking photos of the student's projects in the making and posting them to this blog site. Bookmark this page on your computer so you can check back often to see what my students are working on.
http://bradensartstars.blogspot.com/
Sincerely,
Carolyn Braden
Art Teacher, Byck Elementary
Louisville, KY
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