Our First Week Back... All Hands on Deck!

What a wonderful week back in the BES art room!! It was great to see so many familiar faces and new smiling faces as well.

I always make time for students to create AND learn the art room procedures and expectations on the first art class of the year. This year, the students were able to explore how the art room connects to their leadership goals. Since our theme this year is "All Aboard the Leader Ship", I created my own play on words through "All hands on deck" to help students understand how important it is to all work together and help each other find the leader within themselves each and every day.

Older students traced their hands and wrote their leadership goals and/or leadership skills on their hand drawing. Kinders and first graders just had their name on their hands. To add the artistic touch, we talked about symbols and how we could use them to express our individuality and interests. Afterwards, students cut their hands out and added them to the Leader Ship out in the main hallway in front of the art room. Take a look at the amazing display of All Hands on Deck showing everyone who enters our school that we all have a hand in creating a school full of leaders!

 

 

After our creative activity, we discussed the Art Leadership Roles second through fifth grade students have in the art room. These leadership roles make every student have a hand in helping make every day in the art room a success!

 

I am SO excited for this school year! I can't wait to start our art units this week.

 Stay tuned to see what is in store for our little artists!