Adjectives + Artsy Fifth Graders Week 7

Teaching adjectives is one of my favorites. Every year I have my students complete a worksheet called "Kiki's Kitty" in which they have to come up with an adjective fore every letter of the alphabet.

I allow them to use their dictionaries if they are unable to think of an adjective. The results are pretty hilarious.

After they completed this worksheet, I had them make acrostics with their names. They had to think of an adjective for every letter in their name. Again, I let them use their dictionaries if they couldn't think of one.

Again, excellent results.

        Nice                                       Artistic                                 Jealous
        Overseas                                Adverbial                             Alight
        Irate                                       Nice                                    Multilateral
                                                     Unhappy                              Multiple
                                                     'Nother                                Yellowish

       Jobless                                High-so                                 Kafkaesque
       Ornamental                          Angry                                   Innocent
       Eligible                                Naughty                                Thinker
      Yellow                                  Nice                                      Asian Lover Songs
                                                 Artistic
                                                 Hungry

Artsy Fifth Graders Week 5

This week's art project was similar to the one we did last week. They really seemed to get the hang of it quickly this time. We concentrated on how to get the 3-D 'blobs' to twist around each other to make a more interesting final product.

Again, it took them a lot of patience, but the results are really fun!

Artsy Fifth Graders Week 4

This week in art the students made their names into op-art. They're easy to do, but require a lot of patience.

These didn't photograph too interestingly on their own, so I put them on top of this Wizard of Oz puzzle. I love that quotation! 

Artsy Fifth Graders Week 3

This week's art assignment was similar to last week, but in color!

Artsy Fifth Graders Week 2

This week we did some paper cutting to create positive and negative space.

I love the way they look together on the bulletin board!

Artsy Fifth Graders

I'm so excited to be teaching art in my classroom this year! Because of the growing number of students at my school, the primary students' art classes were moved into their main classrooms to be taught by their homeroom teacher.

I have TONS of artsy ideas. For the first week of school, I decided to have them cut their names out of colorful paper using a graffiti art style. It mostly turned into a lesson about overlapping letters and trying to fill the entire paper. Here are some of the finished products!

Memories from the School Year

Not to be redundant, but SERIOUSLY. How is it possible that this school year is over? Here are a few sweet memories from throughout the school year.

I miss these students already! If the three Lao girls sitting at the table across from me weren't staring, I think I'd be getting a little weepy.

Classroom Decor

Merry Christmas from my 5th grade class!