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This week’s lesson at Towey was all about teaching the class how to develop a floor plan for their dream house. We started off by a large square as a perimeter along with the front & back door, front & back yard, and the window on a sheet of graph …
This week at Penn Treaty felt like a new beginning in a way because we started working with a new group of students in a different classroom. I made sure that I took the time to talk to each student while helping them work. I’m very excited about working with …
This past Wednesday we had a very colorful time! We took inspiration for Robert Indiana and created fun and colorful works of pop art using color theory! During this lesson the students were reintroduced to the color wheel we discussed the Primary and Secondary colors. We also found out another …
For this week’s lesson, we wanted to do something that is more relaxing for the mind, so we had the students at Towey do portraits through various steps. First, we started off by lightly drawing an upside down oval shape for the head. While they were drawing the head, we …
Last Wednesday at the Cohocksink rec center, we had a very fun and colorful art class! Introduced the students to the famous dutch painter Vincent van Gogh! In the beginning of this lesson I asked the students if they were familiar with Van Gogh or any of his works, and …
Before I talk about the lesson, I just wanted to say that I love how the students at Penn Treaty designed the closet doors with their names and the inspiration words that they worked on last week. I think that they chose the perfect spot because each time you open …
As winter descends, we have begun growing a yoga garden at Fishtown Recreation Center. Each week, we begin class with a series of basic yoga poses, each pose named after a plant or animal found in a garden. We chose to use these familiar terms, rather than the official sanskrit …
Julie Shaffer is a new docent at Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. This is her second semester volunteering with Art Sphere. She loves yoga, post-modern fiction, and art history and wants to cultivate a love and appreciation of art in young children. At Fishtown Recreation Center this week, we kicked …
