Friday, January 22, 2016

Music using household objects

HELLO by Adele


Site for helping children with IEP 


Compliments are Key

Compliments 

Watch how this teacher talks to his students.

Teaching Strategies

 Teaching Strategies
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                   The clips are the actual video segments under videos

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Colors

The many varieties of color.


Mono-chromatic. Hello red fox book by Eric Carl
Complementary and split complementary 

Artist about Ladder for Booker T. Washington

Story about Booker T. Washington who started colored school in Tuskegee Alabama!!

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts." -Sir Joshua Reynolds 


Visual Arts 
The ladder: the journey of this man a big ladder, works hard to get up to the ladder, and its not a straight ladder.

http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/
--go to lesson plans on this page

Blind Contour Drawing

Blind Contour Drawing

"Great art is not what it looks like, but how it makes us think, feel, and be" -Zoomie


WARM UP for Visual Arts for all Grade levels:

-you can draw your hand, still life ex: a leaf, shoes, backpack. Look away from your paper and ddraw the lines.


Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Virtual of a city around the world

Virtual tour



https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/

Core Standard: 
Third Grade Standard II: Students will understand cultural factors that shape a community.

Aloha Life Piktograph

Piktochart

Aloha Life



Social Studies 3rd Grade

Objective 2 
Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments and how other communities have modified the environment.


  1. Describe the major world ecosystems (i.e. desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland). 
  2. Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems. 
  3. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 
  4. Investigate ways different communities have adapted into an ecosystem. 
Objective 3 
Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment.


  1. Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). 
  2. Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. 
  3. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). 
  4. Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment. 
  5. Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment. 

Monday, January 18, 2016