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Started on Oct 17, 2011 by mrwinningham
Last post on May 19, 2012

There are a lot of high school resources in the exchange.....elementary needs to step it up! This disscussion group can be a sounding board for the joys and challenges of teaching elementary art! How do you all differentiate between grades for your elementary artists?

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  • imagiNATION 10/19/2011 at 05:15am
    We sure do! I am excited to hear what other teachers of the wee ones are up to. My greatest joy right now is playing the TMBG Nonagon video as an introduction/refresher for polygons in the second grade. They love it.


  • KatieMorris 03/21/2012 at 07:42pm
    I love TMBG. They are the ones who play the "weird" music the kids ask to listen to! Nonagon is one of my favorites, I used it with 4th grade last year for a shape lesson since they have geometric shapes on their math state assessments.


  • RuthByrne 05/19/2012 at 12:29pm
    As far as raw enthusiasm goes, elementary art is the best!
    I'm a PreK-4 art teacher in NJ, and having kids during these formative years is a delight to see.

    One challenge for me would be recognizing when to give more independence to a group of students I've known since before they could handle scissors.

    Building lessons in specific mediums that build on each other year over year has worked for ceramics, printmaking, and sewing. But drawing has always been a hard one for me. students develop at such different rates... At a certain age, some kids want techniques to make their drawings "more realistic" but some kids are perfectly content with their style.