Dot Day Project

 

Description: We used a coffee filter and created art with watercolor. We can also use materials like crayons, sharpies, and oil paint. When we used the watercolor paint, some materials would blend like watercolor crayons and crayons, while the oil paint and Sharpies didn't blend and stayed the same. We related this project back to language arts. 

Extension Activity: Another way we can do this activity with language arts is to tie-dye the coffee filter and read the book Tie-Dye City: Dye Book for the Cool Kids in your Life by Josephine Baker. 

Elements and Principle

 

The Activity: We created a 2nd- to 3rd-grade matching game where students must match the vocabulary definitions to the right picture. 

Extension activity: After students finish this activity, they will go out and take three pictures in the classroom that go with elements and principles.

Footprint Introduction

 Description: An activity to get to know each other. Create an outline from your foot and draw objects that describe yourself.

• Family picture - I love to be with my family.
• Spotify code - favorite song: Luke Bryan's "Games"
• Horse picture - My best friend
• Frying pan - love to cook
• basketball picture - favorite thing to do is to go to my dad's basketball games.
• basketball - what I did over winter break.
• Palm tree - love to travel.
• friends - I love hanging out with my friends.
• Lantern - My favorite movie is Tangled.
• Mazatlan - Favorite place to travel.

Extension activity: I can add to this activity that after they share their footprint, the student will have to find someone else that is similar, and then they have to write how their footprint is similar and different from their partner's footprint.