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I often make entirely original rubrics, this one is borrowed from many sources. I think some of this may have come from Marvin Bartel. The important thing in designing rubrics is that YOU believe what you are evaluating is important and you consider what the students think is important. Rubrics are a collaboration between student and teacher.
For the local portion of my "grade", I used my 4th graders. Again, as with the 1st grade, I will opt to give individual goals for each student rather than saying "80% will reach...". It's easy to see that EVERYONE definitely improved but I ended up falling short with the number of students reaching the goal. In a lot of case, students were only 1-3 points off from reaching my goal! Oh well. For this assessment, I had students do a still-life drawing from a white still life. At the beginning of the year, I gave them two days. Everyone finished well within that time frame. At the end of the year, they received 3-4 days. Even the early finishers needed at least 2 1/2 days to do theirs, so this made me happy that they weren't rushing! For the final assessment, students could shade their still life with pencil or they could paint it with acrylic, depending on which they preferred. All year long we did a variety of projects to reinforce using value, such as the value cities, pastel poinsettias, the fall drawings with leaf prints, and the still life practice just before our post-assessment. We also did a lot of drawing from real life this year to reinforce observational skills. Here are the results! Pre-assessments on the left, post-assessments on the right! (Please pardon the junky photos of the pre-assessments...those were done at the beginning of the year before I got my new camera!) Drastic improvement, just in this student's willingness to participate! Great improvement in shading skills...as well as this student's self-esteem in art. It's always amazing once a student can do once they realize their confidence! My private lesson student. She lost some of her value in the foreground bottles, but none the less, did an AWESOME job mixing paint on the canvas. Awesome value improvement.
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Coordinating conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses. These sentence diagraming exercises will SHOW you how conjunctions work. Join us!
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This document organizes all the Essentials Questions from the new 2014-2015 National Visual Art Standards into categories of Responding, Creating, Connecting and Presenting Art. It can be printed in color. I like to tape the sides together and have it laminated so I have an accordion folded Chart. I...
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It's our first year of doing Essentials, and my daughter and I both have been a bit overwhelmed. I love the class, because I'm learning more about English and writing than I ever have before, but it is challenging me more than any of my college classes ever did! Ten weeks in, we're getting the hang of things, and Alathia's writing has improved dramatically. However, we were struggling to find time to do sentence analysis tasks. Alathia also was feeling like Essentials was "hard" and "scary" because I was projecting that attitude, and she was just following my lead. A wise friend suggested that I make "Essentials time with mom" a special time. She suggested misting peppermint essential oils (essential oils for essentials...how funny!) or lighting a candle, having a cup of cocoa or tea together, and making it a special bonding time in the afternoons. I loved that idea! I realized that the corner of the guest room where my girl does her independent work each day wasn't really being used for anything. So, this weekend, I dolled it up and made it my Essentials Corner. It is now an inviting space where we can unwind and review our EEL and IEW homework. She was so excited about it that she started diagramming sentences on the new whiteboards on a Saturday! A visual cue for my art-loving daughter! New whiteboards were imperative, for they have given us a spot to list the week's work and to diagram sentences. I brought in a little glass table that was on my outdoor patio this summer to hold my Essentials bag, our books, our basket of scented pencils and candles, and our portable walls. Visuals gloriously assist us in our quest to be audaciously astounding conquerors of the Key Word Outline. A friend from church gave us these little boxes she no longer wanted. They were just the right size for sentence pattern blocks! An environment to placidly contemplate our Essentials work, where hopefully we will not squander our afternoon, but will be diligent to master the English language! *Underlined words are from our vocabulary words this year. Just for fun!
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I was looking for some new clothes and decided to go to Burlington Coat Factory. I walked through the door and was immediately overwhelmed. There were so many choices. Even though they were broken int
This is a second version of an Art Syllabi that I have posted on my account. This one includes NEW management in the art room.. including rewards, discipline, rules, etc. Both Syllabuses are great! At the beginning of the year, each class looks over the material on this paper. I have them keep it a...
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This post was written on November 5, 2011. Our first year of Essentials has proven T-O-U-G-H. It would have been a challenge even if we hadn’t been battling all the noise from the ongoing construction. In the process of learning how to implement Essentials in our own home, I have discovered some ways to make […]
Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.
