Showing posts with label construction paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction paper. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Scarp Monster Cut-Outs by 1st Grade...

So cute and fun....

Teaching a little eye-hand coordination!
Everyone gets a full sheet of their favorite color and the rest of the paper comes from the...
Scrap Bin! Yes I let them dump it out on the floor. 
We discuss proper "paper on the floor" etiquette before. 
I tell them it is very important not to crinkle their own scraps 
because other friends may be able to use it. Please simply
return it to the Scrap Bin. During clean up time I ask everyone to return to their
seats. Then I ask for "people with a certain color shirt" to hit the floor and clean up scraps.
Remember...we do not crinkle the scraps...they may become someone else's monster someday.
If the floor still needs attention I just ask the table managers to clean. When the floor is clean then everyone may start putting their work on the drying rack and their supplies away.












Make sure to give your monster details and personality!



Saturday, December 29, 2018

Fibonacci Sequence With Circles...















This was our inspiration piece. I wish I could tell you were I got it be I have had it in a folder called "ideas" for a long time. I stared the file before I ever had a blog. Back when I first started teaching in 2005. I was scared I was going to runout of ideas so I stared filing away everything I saw. I would love to tell you who originally created this because it is awesome!



Sunday, January 7, 2018

Bamboo at Night...





5th grade students started by using circle tracers to cut out their moons. I gave the kids a 6x6 inch piece of white paper for the moons.
Then we glued the moon to 12 x18 inch orange construction paper.
Some students painted their moons gray or added craters.

Using watered down black tempera paint start at the bottom of the paper and create 2 or 3 bamboo shoots that cross over each other. We left spaces between the shoot sections were the orange paper showed through.

Add leaves of the bamboo