First Grade Dogs

Yikes! I came to my second school and realized nearly too late that the classes here had already finished their faces!! This is because I see these classes twice a week and the others only once. I had to come up with something fast!!

Thanks to Deep Space Sparkle, I was able to find a cute project quickly. The first day, the students drew their dogs. I used the ELMO to show my drawing magnified on the projector screen. This worked for most of them; others I may need to sit next to me next time in order to make sure they are able to follow along. The dogs turned out so cute!

The next class day, I had the students finish up their dogs. While they were finishing, I had a group of three at a time come to a station and paint a second paper half blue and green. This is for the sky and the ground. I used tempera paint for this. I thank my summer experience at TLZ as an assistant art teacher, because otherwise I would not have been as effective at showing students how to hold a paint brush (Thank you, Amy!) I did not get through all of the students, so I will have an activity next week and pull those aside that have not finished painting yet.

I can't wait to see and share the final projects!