PLC+Dec+Minutes

This PLC meeting we shared projects going well and projects that were struggling. //I will attempt to add pictures at a later time.//

Jill VanOverbeke shared some of her 1st grade projects. She does a project about Grandma Moses, and reads a story about Grandma Moses by Emma. They finderpaint a background. Then they hold a discussion about perspective and add figures in the foreground and background.

She introduces complimentary colors in 2nd grade with a Warhol project.

Jim Johnson does complimentary colors in 2nd grade with Betty Edwards with upside-down drawings.

Jill also does Valentine Candy Heart Paintings with watercolor hearts, with oil pastel backgrounds. The words are added after.

Abi Paytoe Gbayee shared her project that went terribly wrong. It was a 3rd grade self-portrait project where students printed their faces from a transparency to paper using markers as the colorant. She and her class gave up on it.

Abi also shared her retro 60's book trees the 3rd grade class did. Students used reader digest book sections (they were cut by Abi first) and folded the pages in to make a tree shape.

Jim does overlapping buildings with texture for 2nd grade.

Jim is also staring a Secret Places book related to the Holocaust and Hiding Places with his 6th graders. He uses 4 match boxes and 3 sheets of paper for the books.

Jill demonstrated an oragami star she occasionally does with students. It requires 8 papers.

Lynn suggested using Tempra varnish for sealing watercolor and tempra varnish.

Jim and Jill both suggested the School Pro pencil sharpeners through Office Depot.

Jim shared his 2nd grade Oaxacan Dinosaur Unit on his Smart Board. He shared the objectives, pictures of Oaxaca, Mexico, things of interest about the culture and zapteca ruins. After Jim read the book "Dream Carver" by Mateo, he shows pictures of Oaxacan animals. He asks students if a dinosaurs could have looked like this. They look at a website [|www.cbv.ns.ca/marigoldhistory/dinosaurs/dinosaurs]. Students start the project by drawing 3 dinosaurs with Oaxacan patterns, with what they eat, where they live, the time of day and season. Students them make model magic dinosaurs and decorate them with over/underwriter markers. Students make the habitats for their dinosaurs in their own classroom.

Jill has students make 4 idea sketches before they leave class by folding a paper twice to get a grid of 4 squares.

The next meeting will be at McCormick in Jan. and we are looking at examples of clay projects.