Announcing Move - to Distance Learning blog

Hi
As we scramble to set up for distance learning, one of the puzzles is to figure out is the best way to serve our K-5 students at Capitol Hill.

For now- I think the best way to share lessons and be easily accessed, is to have a new blog (connected only to my PPS account) - dedicated to Distance Learning assignments.

https://distance-art-ch.blogspot.com/

Please bookmark this link.

I will be adding grade level pages as needed.

• For now all K-2 will be on the NEW site (distance-art-ch...).
• Grades 3-5 may continue on the NEW site (distance-art-ch...) AND I will start posting on their     google-classroom accounts soon.

We- teachers are trying to figure out what works BEST FOR STUDENTS.

Going forward - ALL new assignments will be added to the new page
https://distance-art-ch.blogspot.com/

Update for Capitol Hill students

Hi Everyone-

Wow, I am learning new stuff hard and fast on - SeeSaw and Google Classroom. 
BUT...
until I figure out how the classes are going to be grouped -  
it is best to continue to use this blog site for Art Lessons- instruction. At least until notified.

So please save this link.

My plan is to have a lesson posted for students to work on next week. It will be up by Monday morning.

While I know not every household has art supplies, my goal is to come up with lessons that invite the use of different materials.
I have made inquiries with the district about some supply packet purchasing discounts - (while I am hoping to hear back from them today - they are busy)
but 
1. I don't expect families to put out more money on supplies.
2. Supplies are not required to be successful !

Now would be the time for the kids to have a scavenger hunt around their home to see what supplies you already own.
Look for:
pencils, paper, markers, glue, tape, scissors, color pencils, sidewalk chalk - that kind of stuff- 

When you collect supplies, find a place to put them all together - so you are ready to get working on Monday. You know even a paper grocery bag would be fine for keeping it all together. 

And if your parents are worried about "art mess"- no problem. Take another grocery bag and cut it open, lay it flat for a "place-mat" to protect your table or wherever you are working. Save the place-mat and reuse it.

All Right! You are ready for action.

Please remember -PAPER AND PENCILS (pens) - WILL BE ENOUGH - and all lessons will work with whatever you can find.

I'm excited - we are going to be creative, inventive and have some FUN.
Ms. H. 

Monday

I am not sure what next week looks like for us art teachers. We will be having some staff training with the classroom teachers about online teaching tools beginning today, through CH. 

As art teachers we have yet to hear from our Art TOSA within the District. They are the ones tasked with guiding us and advocating for arts programs in the schools. 
I hear some information is coming by Friday.

Regardless - I want to keep teaching and have connected with the CH teachers to link up to their resource pages. 

SO - I do have some bigger ideas for projects but am not going to share them until students are ready to engage in online school. When is that time?
We are in a funny limbo - this is not a criticism of the kids, this is waiting for the focused routine directives from the District to us and families. 

Remember-you will find 11 new activity/learning assignments posted on this page since March 16th. 
Feel free to scroll back and choose to do some other offerings; you are not limited to the most recent one.

In the meantime - here is one more Mo Willems video related to making a board game and playing it remotely with a friend.

Spoiler alert - I do think creating a board game is an engaging assignment we will attempt and look forward to leading or prompting you through it.
If you design a board game now - you will not ruin the project for yourself, you will just be ahead of the other kids in how you think and plan. 
 
Here is a link to some artist designed board games you might like to browse.They are a pretty nerdy-creative bunch...ahhhh my FAVORITE kind of people!

https://www.moregamesplease.com/best-board-game-art/2019/1/28/top-10-best-board-game-art-2018 

I hope you all are well.
Ms. H 
 

 

Design a game...artists do that you know.

Good Morning, or Hello,

Here is Mo Willems again with a different activity I think you will enjoy.

Of course you can copy him, but I think you will have more fun inventing your own board game. 

Maybe think about it as a model of how you get around your home, to the playground, to school. 
Here are some ideas to get you started.

Maybe you have rewards;

• fresh baked treats
• candy
• screen time
• face/time with friends
• find a hundred dollar bill lying on the sidewalk

pleasant activities:

• read a book
• help with cooking
• set the table
• put away toys or stuffed animals
• wash the car
• fold warm laundry

or unpleasant chores:

• pick up dog poop
• take out stinky trash
• load the dishwasher
• clean the bathroom
• other

Use these as side paths, think "Chutes and Ladders," to skip ahead or be sent back spaces.
Take a picture of your creation

Have fun. 
Be creative.

XO-
Ms. H. 

AND here is a link to the photos of kids doing some of these activities. Thank you.
LINK

keep playing with paper...buildings, characters

Even adult artists use paper as an art material - 

One thing that makes these so fun to look at is, when the material of the object is changed from it's expected original ...hmmm material, the resulting perspective is surprise or delight.
We expect to see one thing and then we see something else that doesn't exactly belong.

(There was a whole art movement in the late 1960s-70s in which different artists used unexpected materials, and/or changed the size of the object. It is a form of Pop Art).

I have always liked this work by Dosshaus - two artists from Los Angeles. Their work is not only paper or paper mache but also black, white and greys.

Be inspired:

Keep with what you started yesterday with Mo - plays, building, scenes....

OR

Try to make some simple items from around your house. Really look at the thing and try to include specific details. It will be a fun challenge.

See you tomorrow!

Mo....Mo

Or is that More Mo?

I think this activity could easily take two or more sessions. This is a BIG one.

What would be really cool, would be if you make a building or other props, and some moveable cardboard characters. 

Here is Mo. Have a sketch paper ready to have fun with him.

Here is the "Nanette's Baguette" - story being read.

MAKE YOUR OWN ( a bunch of different artists do this - I'll link them tomorrow)

If you do not have any toilet paper tubes - make your own. 
Cut paper in half and roll and tape.

3rd graders - remember how to make a Nbdele house, and the paper rooms (which have an inside and OUTSIDE). 

Here is a link to a slideshow of how to do this:

Paper room/buildings directions - click here 

Play around with them and maybe even make a 30 second (short video).

(I would love to share any video you make - but this is the tricky part for me- how? 
I don't think google classroom is set up for 400 students. 
So email me your interest to up-load a video and I'll send you a link to a doc where we can put them in one place to view. This would be fantastic). 

You all are the best! Thanks for the pictures!

nhelmsworth@pps.net