Pinch Pot Fish

So it is my first year teaching ceramics, and I saw a bunch of ideas for animals with a pinch pot as the body. Super cute idea, not too hard... (for me to instruct at least). I did this with all 4 of my 3rd grade classes (roughly 100 kids + 1 Special Needs class - some pieces not pictured).

Self-Portrait: The Animal Within

This self-portrait lesson taught the proportions of our face, wile also rendering ourselves as the "animal within".

Cubist Guitars

Music is Art! The non-profit I work for, Community School of Music and Arts, also teaches Music to schools, along with art, for 1/2 of the year. Some students in this class are taking music right now, and I taught this lesson on a Friday (not the usual day), so the students who take music, joined the rest of the class for fun art making!

Fall Contour Leaves #2

My Special Day class did a great job looking at the contours of Fall leaves I brought for them for a contour lesson.

Edward Curtis Tee Pee Landscapes

4th grade learns about Native America! My favorite subject in grade school...Our 2nd study on value, and also contour, I thought Edward Curtis would be so perfect with his gold tone sepia photographs of native people, their environment and daily lives.

Contour Fish

Special Day Class: 3-5th Grade

Monta Loma Elementary School

Mountain View, California