Stars, Hoots and Kahoots

Our first few weeks (days) have been a success!  We have reviewed the Elements of Art and finished our first masterpieces!  All but one class has reviewed the Elements and created some 3D pop-up Stars for display.  I found the template here.  I printed one for each student, showed them my example and then let them be creative in how they depicted the Elements in each area.  We cut them out, fold on the lines, glue the tabs back on construction paper and there you go!  Students really enjoyed this activity, the folding and gluing it down was a bit tricky, but I was impressed by the support and assistance from other students!
(sorry the images are slightly fuzzy, my son took the pictures)

My 6th graders practiced continuous line with our Owls and then colored in the spaces.  We always play a game of Simon Says as I lead and I never tell them what we are making!  They really enjoy it and ask for other animals!  I think we will display some of these with a book display in the library featuring the series "Guardians of Ga'hoole".

We are working our way towards 1 and 2 perspective drawing this week.

Our sketch this week was of Gary the Octopus practice foreground, background and shading.

Something that I tried this week for the first time and absolutely LOVED it was utilizing Kahoot! for formative assessment.  My 8th grade Ceramics class reviewed vocabulary with this digital game and it was awesome!  Everyone had fun, students were learning and it had everyone engaged!!  Definitely a keeper and going to use again!!  Check it out here.