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Portfolio Piece #3

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 7:44 pm on Wednesday, February 25, 2009

I did lesson #28 (Geometric Shape) which was making a colorful design using geometric shapes. This activity was time consuming, but I thought it was a good activity to help teach children about positive and negative shape.  The activity also helped children with their geometric shapes and their small muscle control.  I think the activity turned out […]

Teaching Art with Books Kids Love

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 3:42 pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009

I like the book that was required for this class, Teaching Art with Books Kids Love.  I thought the author did a good job of simplifying everything so that anyone could read the book and understand what the author was talking about.  Every section starts out with a definition of the topic and then there are […]

Portfolio Piece #2

Filed under: Uncategorized — rdannen at 6:32 pm on Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I did lesson 44 (paper bag puppets) as a way of reviewing form, dimension, and depth.  I though this was an important activity because children like puppets and this is a way for them to creatively design their own puppets.  This activity also helps reinforce the concept of form because the students have to do […]