Welcome Back To School!!

Lots of new and exciting things are happening this year in the Art Room!!!

Each class grades PreK-6 are participating in Class Points this year. 

Each group that comes to Art is labeled as a different animal and each group must work together to earn a star. Students must receive 4 check marks on the Class Points chart in order to earn a sticker.

Class Points sticker chart with each grades animal categories

Each student is assigned to their own colored table.

On each table are the Elements of Art and Principals of Design:

ART ROOM JOBS. 

Each table is labeled by color and every week student's jobs change.

*When you are chosen to be a Direction Expert it means you must listen carefully to all directions and be a leader when someone needs the directions repeated. 

New in art this year at Trinity: Portfolios in each grade. 

*All work will eventually come home but may be chosen for display in the hallways or at Art Shows.

Also something new this year students have the opportunity to publish their work on an online art gallery with parental permission. Students should be bringing a letter home explaining the details. The art museum can be viewed online at http://www.artsonia.com/

ART ROOM ACTIONS!
                     A-ttitude
                     R-espect
                              T-ry your best
                             I-magination
                   S-afety
      stay on T-ask

A constant reminder to everyone
(especially myself!)

Classroom Management

This is our positive behavior chart,

When students enter the room I place a clothespin with their names on the green "ready-to-work" square. If a student choses to make poor choices his/her clothespin moves down to the yellow "warning" square. If the student changes his/her behavior by making better choices he/she can be moved back up to green square, if not he/she moves down to the red "time out" square and lose their classes chance at a star. However, if students show they are going above and beyond at being well-behaved, respectful and hard working artists they may be moved up to the blue highest honor "Artist All Stars" square. 

It is a challenge each day for the entire class to receive a yellow star. If anyones clothespin makes it down to red the class does not receive a yellow star for the day. 

Once a class has 10 stars they earn a FREE ART DAY where each table is a different station and students get to chose what they want to create. 

I do this for my Pre K-3rd grade and they all respond very well to it. Each class is eager and proud to report back to their teacher with their stars.