Honored!

I am thrilled and honored to be blogged about on Jon Contino's website! The kids loved studying him in school. They did a fantastic job creating the letters to their name for a project just like Jon! I also talked to my kids about how hard work can really get you places! See the my original blog post [here] and Jon Contino's blog post [here].

Also, what a wonderful way to close out this blog! I an no longer working at Jefferson Middle School in Washington DC , where U taught for the last two years. This year I am moving on to a new school, still in DC, called Langley Elementary school. I am more than excited to be working with a younger age group again. However, I am yet again faced with very little budget for art supplies. Please feel free to donate to my cause at Donors Choose. Anything would help!
 
I also invite you to come and join my new blog for Langley Elementary School, its called Northeast City Art.

7th Grade Nature Words

The 7th grade has been working on a three day project discovering the benefits of good graphic design. We talked about needed to ship a package over night to our cousin in another state. As we were looking for companies to use we found one with a snail as their logo. I asked the students if they thought this was a good choice for an over night shipping company. They all agreed that the use of a snail icon was not the best choice. They all responded with cries of "No!! It should be a cheetah or a bird!" Which, I completely agreed.

Using the knowledge of understanding that images help our graphic design art work, we create words from nature that displayed characteristics of that word. An exanple would be the word ICE and the letters forming icicles and colored in with blues. The kids really did a fantastic job designing their words.