This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we continued with our oil pastel projects by adding color to their original designs created last week. The students learned about warm and cool palettes and we discussed how each palette evoked certain images or feelings. For example, warm colors like red, orange and …
For this week’s class, at Penn Treaty, we wanted the students to do a fun & unique project based around the fall season. We had them design their own leaf cutouts to be placed on a tree and also had them create some stencil designs on craft paper with a …
For this week’s class, at Penn Treaty, we wanted the students to do a fun & unique project based around the fall season. We had them design their own leaf cutouts to be placed on a tree and also had them create some stencil designs on craft paper with a …
This Thanksgiving week At Cione Recreation Center we celebrated Indigenous Peoples in the Americas artistic traditions by making dreamcatchers. Although unclear, it’s speculated that dreamcatchers originated from the Ojibwe tribe of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. Ojibwe and Lakota tribes used dreamcatchers as a way to boost good dreams for …
We just came off of last weeks quiz and still wanting to keep the information fresh. I noticed that some of the students had a little trouble with math so I decided to have them try this fun activity. This was a color by addition activity page. It got them …
The ten question quiz was given to the students to test their pre knowledge of the subject and their post knowledge after it was taught to them. I covered what organic and geometric shapes were, the different types of lines and were they are most used, the primary secondary and …
What kindness means at Towey. This was an all hands on deck project and each child wrote what kindness meant to them. This activity was in commemoration of World Kindness Day and every student had something wonderful to say. They all worked together and shared and voiced their opinions on …
The students at Towey face so many different things. With this project I wanted them to all feel comfortable within themselves and more-so with one another. They drew themselves on the miniature people and construct the world with the cut out provided. Inside of the continent’s each child wrote their …
