Hours 12 and 13

So I finished teaching my lesson plan to the students today.  I ran through my head a couple of times and sort of talked myself through it the night before.  I wanted to make sure that I organized how I wanted the students to work and what words I was going to use to guide them through the process of creating the brown bear.  I started out the class by asking them to tell me what artist we looked at before break.  I gave few hints and it all came back to them.  I also asked them to tell me what a texture was.  They had a little trouble defining the word.  I think if I really wanted them to understand texture I would have to do more than one project that centered around the idea.  Then they were dismissed to their tables and I asked them to write their names on the back of their papers.  I still had a few papers with names on the front.  I think next time I'll wait until were done with the project and then ask them to flip the paper over and hopefully all the names will be on the backs of the papers.  The students were really eager to get moving.  I had a few problems with students taking forever to get their supplies and then at the end they were fighting to get supplies put away.  At the end of the class when everyone was sitting down I let them know that I thought they did a great job when I asked them to come up and get their craypas, but that the struggle we had during clean up was unacceptable.  They sat quietly and lined up nicely for me after that.

I think clean up is kind of an issue for some of these classes.  I've seen students fighting and butting to get ahead of each other to get their items put away.  I think that Mrs. A doesn't notice it as much as I do because she is busy cleaning up herself.  It bothers me though.  I want clean up to be more orderly in my class and I want my students to me more considerate of each other.  I think that Mrs. A art bucks could be used to help address this issue.  At the beginning of class I would announce that art bucks would be awarded not only for drawings in sketchbooks but also for extra good behavior.  Such as helping a friend finish their project or if I spy them doing something I believe is particularly kind.

Below are a few pictures of some of the work the kids created and also a short clip of me giving a demonstration to the class.