4th Grade Keith Haring

Classroom Management-Game Day & Art History Challenge

   The game day Classroom Management has been evolving for a number of years. This year I wanted to focus on developing a system to track and reward classes (not individuals) on positive behavior. At the end of each class and after reviewing and reflection on the lesson, we review how the class did with their overall behavior. Each class has a tag and moves on the board in the same way as Candyland. This above poster was made by me with a little inspiration from the internet. I ask them the following questions and they receive points if 100% of the class earned it. This can be easy for some classes that are motivated and harder with others. The questions goes as follows:

1. Did we all respect our classmates, teacher, or materials?
2. Was everyone focused and creating?
3. Did you clean up after yourself and your table the FIRST time I asked?
4. Are you ready to go?
5. BONUS: Did anyone go above and beyond?

   We discuss issues I saw and they saw with behavior and tally the points. After 30 points the class gets a Game Day and then it restarts. On the Game Day (One period 40 minutes) the class plays a game titled Art History Challenge. To play Art History Challenge students are shown artworks, masterpieces from famous artists to contemporary works by artists living today. The slide has the artist's name, title, and date and the artwork image. I direct them to look for specific things like objects, date, what they can relate it to. After 30 seconds to 1 minute, I ask them 3 questions and they right down their answers on a piece of paper (like trivia). I tally the points and in the next class the top five scores (not students because some tie) and hand out prizes. I designed the game and the students are helping me figure out how to improve anything like cheating or timing between each artwork. Adults and students like this game and it has been successful. Their are a few things I am changing about it but this is working really well this year.

Field Trips...Beyond the Museum

Special Projects

• Martin Luther King Jr. 4th Grade Project
• Bibloburro
• Fairy Tales & Animation with Ms. Lionetti's Class
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ABA Classroom Art-Tactile Texture Experiments

Tactile Texture Experiments

Kindergarten Art- Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers

4th Grade Art Mandalas

4th Grade students created Mandalas, while learning about line and symmetry inspired by the traditional Tibetan art practice. The students created their own "pie slice" using the elements of art line and shape. Afterwards they traced the image inside a template circle eight separate times. Then they colored in their artwork using color as a design element. The students loved this project because each of them created their own artwork inspired by their own interested. They were also intrigued by the videos I showed them about symmetry and tibetan sand mandalas. 

Check out these video links

• Time Lapse Tibetan Monks Sand Mandalas
• Line of Symmetry

Secondary Resources:

• A kaleidoscope
• Mandala Coloring Page Handouts 
• The Mandala Book: Patterns of the Universe 

        Dec 7, 2010 by Lori Bailey Cunningham