Week Two Falk Laboratory School October 28-Nov 1

Week Two Middle School

Monday October 28

• Eighth Grade Visual Arts
• Spooky Still Life day
• We set up three different still life's: a lounging skeleton, a harvest, and a spooky still life
• Students used black vine charcoal and white and orange conte crayon to create their still lives
• Cheryl taught this lesson and tomorrow I will be the lead teacher for the lesson with the other eighth grade class
• Seventh Grade Art Lab
• Art Lunch, students dine in the studio and work on their art projects
• Students have this week (3 total classes) to finish their dream bedrooms
• Students are finishing at slightly different paces
• Some students are adding final decorative elements while other students are still building furniture 
• Students know that they will be finishing this project, but that I will be starting a project with them the following week that ties into the dream bedroom

Tuesday October 29

• Eighth Grade Visual Arts
• Still Life's- I was the Lead Teacher for this class
• I set up the classroom in the same way we did yesterday with slight variation to how the still life's were arranged
• The board had a list with:
• A starter question: Has anyone ever drawn a still life?
• Demo: Spooky-Skeleton-Harvest Still Life's Vine Charcoal
• Studio: Goals 
• Look
• Light Sketch
• Fill Page
• Rub out
• Add Shadow
• Blend to Light
• Highlights and Contrasting Lines
• Studio: Bonus Challenge 
• Draw from another angle or draw a different still life
• I presented a Demo following the above goals and focused on the Harvest still life zooming in on a pumpkin, straw hat, fabric, and a dried corn stalk
• Students worked around the classroom with 3-6 students working at each Still life at a time
• Seventh Grade Art Lab
• Dream Bedrooms

Wednesday October 30

• Sixth Grade Visual Arts
• All sixth graders went on a field trip to the Flamenco Ballet so we did not see the Visual Arts students this morning 
• During this open block I worked on my lesson plans for seventh grade Art Lab to become the Lead teacher for that class starting this coming Monday November 4th
• Seventh Grade Art Lab
• Dream Bedrooms
• Students are asked to fill out a finished checklist and reflective worksheet
• Do you have:
• Painted walls
• windows with window treatmeants
• carpet or flooring
• storage furniture built from foam
• bed with mattress, sheet, blanket
• pillow that was sewn
• sculpey snacks
• wall art 
• at least three accessories
• What were the 3 original words that you hoped would describe your room?
• Give your room an interesting and accurate title
• Write a 5 sentence paragraph that answers:
• How is your room the same as your original idea?
• How did your ideas change as you worked?
• What are some of your favorite parts of your room?
• What would you change if you could?
• What did you learn through this project?

Thursday October 31

• Halloween!
• Spooky Still life's and finishing dream bedrooms with seventh Grade

Friday November 1

• PAEA Conference at Penn State