Where has the year gone!?

I just wanted to reach out to my blog followers and apologize for my lack of posts!  I really do have so much to share with you, but I have just been so overwhelmed this year!  My little one is growing so fast already...she is six months and in the last two weeks, she has started to sit up unassisted, crawl and is trying to pull herself into standing!  Needless to say she is a very cranky, baby who doesn't sleep well anymore because she always wants to be on the go!  Thus, mommy is a very tired and cranky mommy who only gets to sleep in two hour increments at night again!  (Which is tough to go back to after your baby was sleeping through the night for almost two months straight!)

My husband is finally done with his chemo treatments.  Things are looking good so far that the cancer is gone, but he will be monitored closely for at least a year until we can say he is in remission.

My art show has been put up and taken down, and is all over...I have pictures to share of that.

I also have TONS of projects to share.  At this point, it looks like the end of the year is what I will be blogging about over summer!  I must say that I feel like a complete slacker this year...I haven't been performing to my standards on my blog and at school as a teacher.  Things with my SLOs and LLOs have been a giant mess this year.

Among all of this mess, I HAVE managed to submit two proposals to NYSATA to present two workshops at the conference!  I'm pretty excited about that.

Anyways, to my followers, I'm so sorry again!  Next week I should be able to start picking back up on my blog as my high school classes will be over and I will only be dealing with elementary classes. :)  Stay tuned!

3rd Grade: Mondrian Unit (Part 3): Glazing Our Cubes

On Friday, my last class of 3rd graders glazed their cubes.  This process took a total of two class periods to complete.  I pulled out my tubes of Spectrum Raised Accent colors in black (of which I received when I ordered the Nasco Spectrum Tile kit last year).  I instructed students to paint over their carved lines with the black glaze, and then to paint in their squares.  When one side was finished, they rotated the cube and did the next side.  

If you remember from my first post in this series, students were able to choose from four different color families to design their cube...they didn't have to do just primary colors.  I set up four stations at my tables...one for each color family (primary, secondary, warm and cool), with two different glazes for each color.

One class's glazed cubes!  These were all loaded into the kiln and fired on Friday, just in the nick of time for art show set-up on Monday of next week!!!  I can't wait to get to school Monday morning to see them!  

And of course in my haste to get them loaded in the kiln 2nd period, I forgot to load my cube!!!

Part 1: Introduction to Mondrian & Color Theory Review

Part 2: Clay Cube Tutorial

Part 4:  Finished Cubes Coming soon!

Please Vote for My Student on Artsonia!

I'm so excited!  One of our students is a finalist on Artsonia in the 7th-9th grade category for Artist of the Week!  This is the FIRST time this has happened in the four years I've been using Artsonia!  If you wouldn't mind, could you hop on over to www.artsonia.com and vote for my student!!!???  The picture chosen for the contest is the one on the right in the photo collage below...her screen name CF26!

Thank you everyone so much!  And remember, you can vote once a day per computer!!! :-)