Be Creative Center Time Again!

A beautiful geometric mosaic.



Future architects?






This tinker toy sculpture is a dog.


Carolyn J. Braden
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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
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At the License to Vote Grand Finale

I am currently at the License to Vote Grand Finale with two of my wonderful art students. Even if they don't win the grand prize, they are winners to me!



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Byck CD Coming Soon!

Here is the winning artwork for the upcoming Byck CD!  What talented artists we have at Byck!

What Mrs. Braden's Stars Are Working On Now!

My fourth, third, second, and first graders are working on their drawing skills in their current project.  The are "designing" a cover for Louisville Magazine.  The theme is Churchill Downs, and the Kentucky Derby Race.  They are the designers  and they must think of how they would represent Churchill Downs in great way for the cover.  This is a contest for The Derby Museum that I participate in every year. I will be selecting several of the students works and submitting them for the contest.  Even if we don't have winning artwork from our school, the student work I selected will still be put on display in the Kentucky Derby Museum for visitors from all over the world to see!

Kindergarten is about to explore Mosaics.  They will learn the skills of outlining, gluing, and knowing patterns with this project.  

I am about to submit students works for PTA Reflections and for the River Sweep contest.  We have some great art to represent Byck!!!!!

We started our Discover classes on Friday.  My student teacher, Lauren Williams, and I crafted an African Quilt design project.  Since the theme of my Discover class is "Think Big!", they will create a large scale paper "quilt" using African Quilt patterns and colors as their inspiration.   Ms. Williams has control over my Discover class, while I will remain her assistant.  Ms. Williams has taught my kindergarten this week and will continue to take over my classes one at a time as she feels more and more comfortable. 

iLoveSchools.com: Check out my classroom wishlist!

I just found a great website that I can list my classroom wishlist on!  It's called iLoveSchools.com. 
Throughout the year, I will be posting items that my classroom is in need of.  I started one today.  Click the link below to view it:

http://www.iloveschools.com/teacher/carolynjbraden/wishlist/view/1

If you have an item on the list that you'd like to donate, or if you know a generous person that loves to help fund teacher's wishlists, let me know.  Currently, we are in need of a digital camera for the art room.  It would be great to have one that not only I can use to take photos of students for projects, but it would also be great to let the students learn how to use one. 

Put http://www.iloveschools.com/ on your favorite website list and help out a classroom today!