Helping Words

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent Teacher Conferences

        Next week we will be having the chance to see how your student is doing as we meet for Parent Teacher Conferences. I have to be in Salt Lake at a special Meeting on Thursday, (Through My Lens: Personalizing History Through Documentary). This conflicts with the regularly scheduled Thursday meetings. To accommodate I will have to meet with some of you on Friday afternoon. I am sorry about any inconveniences but I can't be in two different places. To be able to meet with you I have set up an appointment calendar that will help us be able to balance out our schedules. Please be patient and realize that I will follow the scheduled times to the best of my abilities. Those that need to speak more in depth I will ask that we do so at another time. 
        The purpose for this meeting is to show you how your student is doing according to the recent DIBEL's screening test. This is a requirement to determine if your child is reading on grade level or is in need of interventions to assist them in reading. I will be providing a mid-term grade report at that time. Your student will be expected to conduct part of the meeting as they showcase how they are doing in class.
        To be able to access the calendar appointment slots, please pick a day, then a slot and then enter your name in the "What" field and if you have a Google calendar it will save it as an event in your calendar (which you can then adjust accordingly. This will then notify me that you plan on being here at that time.

To pick your appointment on Wednesday or Friday follow this link: http://goo.gl/KgcxDx
Mr. Fisher's Calendar Appointments for Parent Teacher Conferences

Or scan in the QR Code:

Google Calendar - A visual representation of what I just said:

1.    Type in your name or your child's name	2.  Click to edit in your calendar
3.   Modify or set reminder for yourself.

More Artwork

More of the Student's Work

		You
		Are
		(Art)
		what
		You
		Create!

SAGE Portal

This website we are going to look at today during Computers. SAGE Test It is the same website that we will be using to take our End-of-the-Year test. We want to look at the practice tests.

http://sageportal.org/

Artwork

The artwork from our class this week is beginning to get very creative. Its time to start showing off some of their work. It is fun to see third graders go from concrete thinking (tracing and drawing specific content), to the other extreme when they start thinking abstractly and are able to draw and create. Here are some samples of what they have been drawing and coloring.

Student: Ike	Student: Enyssa	Student: Graccey
Digital Art Example	Student: Kallea	Student: Graccey
Student: Cole	Student: Weston
Student: Travis	Student: Tyanne	Line Art

Online websites that allow you to virtually paint. You have to check them out: Updated tomorrow during class!

• http://jacksonpollock.org/
• http://drips.nalindesign.com/
• http://www.picassohead.com/
• http://mudcu.be/sketchpad/
• http://drawisland.com/
• http://graffiticreator.net/
• http://bomomo.com/
• http://www.psykopaint.com/
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• http://www.math-play.com/math-basketball-properties

Okay that last one is not an art site, but you can try it during free time!

To see The Computer Art - Follow this Link to the ArtWork Album

Illustration

The ART of Illustrating, begins with ideas, then you make a rough sketch. It is very similar in real life. We sometimes have to start out simple, and then we are able to add some details, build up and improve our skills, and later on, we might be good enough to pursue our dreams!
Here are some quotes along those lines (to go along with this week's lesson):

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner 
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Dr. Seuss 
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
Steven Wright 
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee 
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman 
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney 
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
Marjane Satrapi 
Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
Jim Davis 
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo DaVinci 
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
Jasper Johns 

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Word Work

The students thought it was fun to play with words today during class. With the new year, I am going to place an emphasis on some key areas that will help the students learn some critical skills that will be beneficial throughout their lives. The area we focused on today was "Word Work." We took the vocabulary words for this week and we looked them up so we have a good idea of what they mean. My plan is to do that on a weekly basis, and to show the students that it is fun to play with words. When I got online tonight, first thing I ran into was the following video of an author that was given a list of words from his own novel and he had to respond with a meaning for each word. I want to try it next week, so here's the video, as an example: