Making a book

Isn't it cute how kids stand when they are drawing? Someday I am going to draw all the different ways that I see them standing. This splits style is a pretty popular stance.
By the way, they are allowed to get chairs if they want them-
most don't want them, except Kindergarten; which I find so weird that they want a chair- but they don't sit in them, ha ha

I'm trying out book publishing. We'll see how it goes. I have to have it done super fast. Today was the first day. Students drew with pencil, then colored with markers. They could draw whatever they chose. 

Isn't it great when you catch students totally engrossed in work they chose for themselves! At the study studio there was a small group of boys reading about Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa- and I didn't even tell them to! They just wanted to! Yes! One of those moments you live for...

reading about mona lisa at the study studio

Some of the classes "earned" cotton for their snow scenes. Classes can earn special materials by great behavior. They have to be attentive when I am talking, productive during the studio time of class, and clean up within 1 min 30 sec! I am rooting for them to earn lots of "extras". Today one class earned the materials to make their own clay- very exciting!

adding cotton for texture

adding analogous colors and tinting at the painting studio

Tinting Analogous colors

Welcome to the painting table. The itty bitty kiddos are painting snowstorms!

blue, violet- analogous colors  adding white- tinting

ATC envelopes

Study Station. Making envelopes to keep their Artist Trading Cards in.

Collage

Cutting out curves. Learning to cut duplicates.

The collage table. What a happy mess! Cut, glue, cut, glue!

Curators of the Museum

Museum curators deciding which paintings should go in which gallery!

Volley Ball Game

Volley ball game at the clay studio!