Choral Reading and Art

Here the "2010 Legacy" Book Club is working on their writing log after reading the selected pages in their book

"4Chicks and A Guy" Book Club are reading together

Well... we started Choral reading yesterday and it is going well so far. Book Club is under way and the children seem to enjoy their freedom of reading without me, taking charge of their own new learning experience. Its obvious that the strong readers are a bit overpowering within the group, but I think that the weaker readers will become more fluent in their efforts to read with their group. This morning, we came outside to read and write because the weather was a little more mild than usual, and sometimes its just better to get out of doors! (Also, the noise from the choral reading groups were a bit distracting to other groups...)

"Journey" Are continuing to read in Choral groups
before having their book club meeting

In art, the 8th graders have begun progress on their insects. I really am in awe of how well they did, with very little in the way of starting over. I was very impressed with their skill with exacto knives, and am very excited at how well this project has gone so far.

This is the Positive/Negative space lesson that led into our lesson with the Black paper cutting.

This is a very good example of this project because the student made it look like the image was cut from the trees.

I showed the 8th graders the images from the Snippety Gibbet website, then had them draw their own bugs onto black paper using pencil or white colored pencil. I stressed that the bug should appear to be connected to the border, just like the ones in the images I showed.

They then sketched it on paper, then on their black paper and cut it out very carefully! I really love this project and can't wait to see how it all turns out!

~Mrs. C!