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<br />Karen Smullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08904492778641603082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061302305178617081.post-84189041291054232122014-11-14T04:55:00.001-08:002014-11-14T04:55:50.916-08:00THANKSGIVING<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his is the time of the year when our children study the Pilgrims and the Wapanoaog Indians and their harvest celebration of a first long and difficult year in the new world.And t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">his year your students' Thanksgiving illustrations can be as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">ARTiculate</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">as their writing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This packet of little drawing lessons will enable your students to recreate the scenes in historic detail. There are many uses for these drawings. To illustrate an essay or report by your students They can write and illustrate a journal about their lives as an Indian girl or a Pilgrim boy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">For example: a deer and the many ways the Pilgrims and Indians used the deer they hunted for food and clothing or how they planted and utilized corn. How they built a cabin it can be a simple or complex as the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By drawing these historic events, children are better able to imagine what it might have been like. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Here is a packet of 17 reproducible and historically accurate drawing lessons for your students - from Pilgrims and Wampanoag people to cabins and wetus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DRAW! The First Thanksgiving drawing packet can be purchased as an e-packet at</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/DRAW-The-First-Thanksgiving-by-Karen-Smullen-837267">TPT</a> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and is a great investment for your classroom for years to come. For more ideas for using narrative drawing in the classroom please visit </span><a href="http://beginnerswork.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beginnerswork.com</a>Karen Smullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08904492778641603082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061302305178617081.post-47354183948681340372014-11-14T04:48:00.002-08:002014-11-14T04:48:57.606-08:00MY THANKSGIVING<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our modern Thanksgiving is a wonderful and warm holiday that everyone can take time to celebrate together. Young children relate well to the holiday and the gathering of friends and family. Preparation of feasts (great or small) and decoration of the house (grand or simple) are memories in the making.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spending a few weeks in school creating these little books is a nice way to settle down a class after Halloween and welcome the winter ahead. This set of reproducible lessons will help your beginners draw that special day, with lots of detail. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A visit to my grandparents" or "when everyone came to visit" makes a meaningful storyline for each child to share when family visits to your classroom around the holidays. And children will love to read their whole family a story they have created around this special holiday. There are many language skills that can be practiced and demonstrated in this activity. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more ways to use drawing in the classroom visit<a href="http://beginnerswork.com/"> beginnerswork.com</a> see <i>Tell Us A Story.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The short stories below were written and illustrated by Pre-kindergarteners and were shared with their grandparents when they visited our classroom before the Thanksgiving Holiday. The kids were very proud and their grandparents were thrilled! It was great to see them sitting on laps and reading their own stories to adoring relatives all at once... a joyful noise!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many possibilities for story lines in these lessons. A favorite story has been about visiting grandparents with cousins... playing in the snow, eating dinner, going out to see the stars then having hot chocolate and a bed times story. It helps children create a comforting narrative. This packet can be found at <b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Beginnerswork"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">TPT</span></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mazes are an important teaching tool, because they offer an opportunity to teach critical thinking and motor planning. Even young children can figure out how to complete a maze with the proper instruction. Here is a series of mini mazes from <b>my first little lessons </b>you can download for free at <b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Beginnerswork" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">TPT</span></a>.</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I first blogged about these balls I have a new grandchild. He can crawl and sit so now is the time... Everything I said about these wonderful toys has proven true. They have become an invaluable. So much so that two weeks ago we brought two outside and the dog ( thinking that they were for him) ate the yellow one and the blue one. </span></i><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lesson learned... </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when I saw an orange, blue and yellow one at my hardware store, I immediately bought them. Now I'm sorry I didn't buy green and purple... grandchild #1 learned to kick and dribble with the big red one. AND two years later they haven't deflated...I'm not sure how much more we could ask of a three dollar toy!</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Times; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4;">I purchased these balls at different places, different times. I found the large red one at the grocery store and the yellow and blue at different drug stores. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Times; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4;">They're light and the bumps make them perfect for little hands. Once an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Times; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4;">ed specialty toy, they are so wonderful that now they're everywhere, even in the drug store toy section... </span></div>
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Then our beginner learned primary color names. Here is the blue one, find the yellow one... we practiced with the balls.</div>
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Finally sizes: Find the big red one, please get the small yellow one...</div>
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And along the way: holding, letting go, rolling, catching, tossing, following directions, social interaction and lots of laughing when we missed or cheering when we succeeded. You can learn a lot from inexpensive bouncy balls...<br />
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See <a href="http://beginnerswork.com/">beginnerswork.com</a> for more clay play...Karen Smullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08904492778641603082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061302305178617081.post-36958217007854532702014-05-25T09:05:00.003-07:002014-05-25T09:32:36.159-07:00AMAZING MINI MAZES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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fifth grade essays. And yet, we don't teach figurative drawing to our young students, illustration seems </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">vestigial</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, a decorative afterthought when in fact the student has been visualizing through the whole activity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the aquisition and practice of written language, visual language plays an </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">important</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> part and is the basis of idea formation and creativity. You have to be able to visualize an idea before you can write about it. Visual language is everywhere, even science magazines have flashy illustrations to make a new and complex idea </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">accessible</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> to their readers. In order to sell a movie a story board is needed as well as a script. Practical drawing is the expressive language of </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">creativity</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sequence of acquiring written language: <i>drawing – forming uppercase letters –
labeling – writing lowercase letters - writing sentences.</i> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There is a tendency to skip drawing or see it
as stifling to creativity.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Art is generally non objective. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Visual
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creative expression. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There is a direct correlation between writing a word and drawing a simple figure. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Visual language is as much a code as written language. A cat has pointy ears and whiskers, without the pointy ears it is </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">ambiguous</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> just a ct means nothing without an a.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Drawing is the language of creativity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drawing is conceptual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drawing can be specific and also general. Many of the characteristics of written language can be found in representational drawing. Drawing uses coded information just like spelling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pictures while they discover letters <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because they can </i>and there
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conceptual thought through drawing at this potent age. In fact almost anything that can be expressed in writing can be expressed in visual language. </span><br />
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E<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">verywhere teachers are preparing to introduce the cycles of life...well some of life: butterflies, frogs, birds and plants to their beginners. Seeds are planted in rich soil and bean seeds are taped to windows so seed development is visible. Every child learns that plants need water and sun to grow. </span><br />
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These portraits of moms are delightful.<br />
Beginning with observation it is a three week process. </div>
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A labor of<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> LOVE</span></b>: tracing, drawing, tracing, erasing and finally painting with real water colors on real watercolor paper (that much work deserves the right materials).</div>
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Once, I had five children from one family in sequence so their mom has pictures of how they saw when they were 5... they are hanging in her upstairs hall.<br />
These children have been drawing all year and now they are ready.<br />
They really capture MOM, the object of every five's love.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px;">A circle is the easie</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" data-mce-style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px; color: #000000;" style="color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px;">st shape to learn and the most versatile. Begin by drawing round scribbles.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" data-mce-style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px; color: #000000;" style="color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px;">This practice will help your beginner's arm become comfortable with the curve of a circular line.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px;">Then draw many circles to practice. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 19px;">It takes <em>years </em>of practice to make perfect circle... we are not seeking perfection.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">This is where the idea for these creative valentines came from. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Aren't these hearts beautiful?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">When I sewed and shopped for this </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">dress up basket, this just what I had in mind!</span></div>
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