Teaching Middle School Art

Yesterday I made a few tokens specifically for my middle school kids.

Kids will earn Tokens for their art work and various classroom participation and glue them in their "art book" that we made earlier this year.



At the end of each semester quarter, we'll count them up and give out prizes.

"You're Awesome" is given out occasionally for kids helping out with gathering textbooks, passing out papers, volunteering to read, great participation, etc.

"Book Smart" is earn for each day we work out of a book with reading and discussion involved.

The "Golden Ticket" is a sneaky fellow! This one is going to be fun to give out. :)

Kids catalog their work into an "Art Book" that we did earlier this year.
They glue in a thumbnail picture of their project (which I take with my phone and print out) and write a reflection on the assignment, how they did and what they learned.

When I take it up to grade, I leave a sticky note to the 3 or 4 kids that did particularly well in their reflection. They exchange that sticky note for a "Golden Ticket" to glue in the book and an immediate small prize (stickers).

I teach in a very poor area and love giving out prizes to these kids. 
 
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Baby Elephant

Here's a pleasant surprise: lots of sticker sales this past month out of my RB account for this baby elephant illustration.


This little fellow was done in ink and watercolor as an illustration for my mother's book "L'argent n'a pas d'odeur" (Money Has No Fragrance).

Find him here

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Level Pins and Egyptologist Badges

With school starting soon I've been busy the past 2 weeks with cleaning the classroom and getting lessons in order, and the never ending stream of teacher meetings and training for this past week.
Thank goodness the kids are coming in next Monday!

I'm still slowly adding to my collection of Tokens and Badges for The League of Art Traveler project.

Check out the newest Adventure Token & Badges: Egyptology

And, I've finalized the Basic Level Pins, yeah!
Here's a few of the series:

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Coloring Pencil Badges

I have two new sets of Tokens and Badges finished today, and a couple more in the making:



For more details about these, go to
The League of Art Travelers

 

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Coloring Pencil Badges

For The League of Art Travelers:

Found a few minutes to work on this new Token and the start of the Badge series: for the Color Pencil art skill. This is a picture of my computer screen, with the circle Token and Basic Level 1 in square. (see link above for more info).

Little by little, I'm going to get there...
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Charts and Expedition Pages

Update on The League of Art Travelers project: a couple shots of my computer screen.

In the first one I am working on the stat charts students will fill out as they go through their art expeditions. These pages have been filled out partially as an example.

The first form is to log in progress for various Tokens earned through the expeditions. These will be generously handed out throughout missions. Each 3 Token for a particular skill earns a level for that skill.
The second form logs in missions (3-5) per expedition. Levels are gained through the number of missions completed. I will also rename that one to something less clinical ... maybe "Mission & Levels", as that is what it does.

I'm doing a general run through for the first expedition, with boxes and placements to be filled with illustrations and other elements critical to that particular story later on.
What you see here is the start of Mission #1 of the expedition, with Objectives listed and the adventure part of laying out the scene and introducing characters. 

It's all work in progress really, so anything you see here might change dramatically before it gets to the finished line - and that's part of the fun of creating these adventures!
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Advanced Level Pins for The League of Art Travelers

These are the still work in progress though I think I have the general feel of what I want.
I'll clean up the design and decide on a texture next.

This is the Advanced Level for The League of Art Travelers.
Levels 1, 5, 8 & 10:

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