My Friday fix is my art/writing project of the week! We have been up to our wings in bats this week and I couldn’t wait to make another writing project for their portfolios. I like to incorporate art into writing. Not only does it make a great bulletin board, but it inspires my students to give me MORE effort in their writing. So here’s what we did today.
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| Start with watercolors and talk about the sunset. Then allow your students to use yellow and orange to create a sunset picture. They have to fill in all the white space |
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| I have always used a construction paper black bat cut out for this project, but I recently found this giant sponge bat. I am not sure the scale is as good on the page, but it was fun for me to try out something new. Black construction paper bats are probably much easier to manage!! |
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| But I do like the effect of the sponge bat! 🙂 |
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| This is the finished product from last year. I haven’t assembled our projects from today yet. The splatter paint at the bottom of the sunset was done with a straw. I had a parent volunteer last year that helped with this. I didn’t have that this year, so I just did without. |
To get this art project and a week of Stellaluna and bat activities click here!
and finally it’s time to crack down and get those report cards done…I may have gotten myself a case of diet coke and possibly opened some Halloween candy a little early…..
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LOVE that art project. I also love to incorporate as much art as possible for writing projects. I am so happy you posted this, as I am starting to talk about bats on Monday :). Thanks for sharing!!
Cora
First Grade Exploration
LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE the art that goes along with the writing!! We, too, did lots of bat stuff this week, and of course a writing to go along with it – but I'm thinking that next year, I need to do this – or somehow incorporate it with our writing!
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Super love the sunset with the bat. My kiddos are super duper artsy so something like this would be great to use with them:)
4th Grade Frolics
So great!!! I love it all, especially the diet coke and Halloween candy.
A Teeny Tiny Teacher
Woah! I LOVE the bat art project! I am NOT artsy but I bet that my kiddos could handle that! I can't wait to borrow it soon! Thanks for sharing! 😉 In another note- I love your new paper clip background. 🙂
Hello! I follow your blog and have used some of the ideas you've posted. I just had to laugh about the tisket tasket song, when you said the program is long gone, because my school is still using it. I do love that game and it is really helpful. I also do the wonder word game. I look forward to trying the art project this week. Thank you!
Wow, that art project is gorgeous and sooo creative! I love it!!
Kristen
Love this art project. I think it's great to incorporate a creative art project with writing. It seems to get them really excited about it.
I love the song for word review!
✿Erika
2B Honey Bunch
LOVE it! It's beautiful!
Loved the song word review game, I teach 4 year old kindergarten so I will use as we work on identifying letters, shapes or numbers….I know they will love playing it, thanks for sharing. SueG
In one of your beginning of the year pictures I noticed that you had popcorn tubs. I just bought 2 today at Target in the dollar section 🙂 but am not really sure what to do with them? What do you do with yours? Thanks so much!
In the popcorn tubs I printed out popcorn words which are really just their sight words that should pop out of their mouth. I use them for guided reading and for word work. Another teacher gave her popcorn words as a freebie and had printed them each on a popcorn clip art. I used her words. There are many versions out there in bloggy land. A google image search should help you!