I'm starting my second full quarter at Tucker Middle School in Georgia. I have had my ups and downs with all that comes with starting over but for the most part I am inspired by the challenges I face daily with middle school students. They are growing individuals who just need people with a little more patience and some love... With that said, I try my hardest every day :) in 6th grade we are working on our President Caricatures, each student chose a president out of a hat and is given a packet with lots of facts about the president and what was happening in that time frame. The students love this project because they learn how to draw a cartoon using exaggeration and humor. For the most part kids are really successful with finding the characteristics that make their president unique so that their drawings are recognizable!
7th graders are working on their idiom illustrations which are always a blast. They need to choose an idiom and illustrate it the way it would look or be imagined by someone who had never heard it before, ex. Cats out of the bag, piggy back ride, one foot in the grave. They have thought of some very original ways to represent their idioms! Here are some pictures of the students working with watercolor mixing since we will be using watercolor once the illustration is drawn.
