Middle school art room

Art Room Guidelines for Middle School Students | Middle School Art | This is a great handout to give your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade art students on the first day back to school.

New on the blog, tips on creating middle school art curriculum. It's all about engagement, building confidence, and scaffolding techniques. Similar to elementary, I like to use the elements of art and principles of design as the backbone of my middle school curriculum.

Need art room organization ideas for your elementary or middle school studio? Setting up an art room is lots of work. From planning your layout to figuring out art supply organization, it's essential to have a well-organized space that fosters creativity and maximizes efficiency. Click over to see how I store art projects, materials, and posters, use rolling carts, and capitolize off of vertical space. | Glitter Meets Glue

I'm finally back from maternity leave and ready to teach (kinda)! Can I bring my baby with me? Can he be my assistant? No? Awe. :( Towards the end of the last school year, I came back from my maternity leave early so that I could work the two days of post-planning. I decided it would be best if I were the one to clean up and put away my classroom, so I’d know where everything was when I officially returned. Last school year, we had to take EVERYTHING off of the walls so that our custodial…

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Who wants to spend Summer vacation in a hot, sweaty classroom? If you'd like to reclaim your personal time, check out these 10 THINGS TO PREP FOR SUMMER BREAK. These art room systems will become a yearly routine to help you leave on the last day on time and prepped for the Back to School.

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One of my goals this year was to have my students really understand the artistic behaviors. I thought last year the students were looking at them only on the surface. I want a deeper understandin…

A few weeks ago I was contacted by a representative of Prang. She asked if I would be willing to try out and compare some of their art materials and give a review of them in exchange for free materials...heck yes! So, as I began planning my first unit for Studio Art, I decided to give the Prang markers a go, compared to the Rose Art markers they sent me as well. So, here goes (I'm killing two birds with one stone here!). So the first set of materials I decided to try out was the Prang vs…