(8 hours)

January tuesday 21st

During this stay I was with the single art teacher in the private school teaching k-8th

Prep 15 minutes before school started

During this time both the teacher and I cut our 3inX3in squares for the 6th grade class who was starting to do radial origami designs. This was fun and we got through a ton surprisingly!

Homeroom: Middle School

This was when the teacher and I had to check everyone's uniforms, we had to send a couple students to the lockers to take off sweatshirts and hats they tried to wear for the day. It reminded me of when I went to this school, it was very nice to see those uniforms again. After The uniforms were checked we had to listen to the daily video of where students pre picked for the week would list of the weekly birthdays and events. After this the class had me lead the daily prayer and then I introduced myself and was able to answer some questions about my major.

1st Period: 8th grade : 13 students

The eighth graders were doing a stop motion project that I was able to help them with, I went around to each group and learned about their project and what each of them was doing. One group was trying to do an underwater scene so they had a huge clear tub filled with water, the other was making Olaf from frozen walk through a forest. This was a very fun class to watch and talk to and get to know. 

2nd period: 7th grade :12 students

This class was making paper mache animals, I got to talk to them a little bit before i went to start putting up artwork on the walls outside the classroom and all around the school. I was helping prep the artwork from the Catholic school week open house.

3rd period: 6th Grade :12 students

This class was fun as I sat with the students and made my own origami pieces for a radial design. We all sat and watched a video on how to fold three special radial design origami folds, because I sat with the students I was able to help them with their folds and talk to them one on one. This was a very easy class to get along with each other because they were all so talkative about dogs and cats and anything else that was on their minds. 

4th Period: 4th Grade : 7 students

I had a ton of fun in this class, after I was introduced to the kids wanted to know more about dinosaurs and what I did to create them. It was nice to see students interested in the process of actually making a video games or movies. After I was introduced and had the chance to hear their names and their favorite colors i was sent to cut cardboard hearts out for the 2nd graders. The 2nd graders that would come in tomorrow are learning about tints for colors and making hearts for their parents. 

5th Period: 5th Grade : 8 students

These kids were balls of energy for their artworks. I got to see them make their own cartoon characters. I got to ask them about why they made which cartoon characters and what words that the character would say from their word bubble art that had to go along with them. It was so much fun to see them so excited about making a cartoon, one was a princess slug and wanted to wear pajamas to her throne room, another was a robot who was talking about how much he likes the timberwolves.

6th period: Kindergarten : 6 students

These kids I didn't get to see very much because I was cutting hearts out and hanging more artwork. I was sent to do these tasks. When I came back from hanging  artwork and cutting hearts all the kids cheered because they had listened hard enough I came back, I got to see them sit down and listen to a story before they left back to their class.

Prep time:

During the end of the day the teacher and I got to talk about what lessons I could teach that would excite the kids and work with the curriculum. We have decided that I would teach the 8th graders and 5th graders. We talked about the lessons and decided that for the 5th graders we could have them build their own dinosaurs. The 8th graders would work on a vr headset and combine their art knowledge to make a vr 3D drawing together. After this the teacher showed me some good websites that would be good for substitute teaching and K-12 teaching.

https://theartofeducation.edu

https://www.deepspacesparkle.com