Grade 3/4 project with lines and shading

I have to share this great project my grade 3 and 4 students are working on!

Since I've become an art teacher, following the blogs of other art teachers is a profession development fixture in my week.  Las week, I came across this wonderful project that the kids have really had fun with so far!

If you, like me, find doodling therapeutic (and fun!), try it out!! It's much easier than it looks, it just takes a little time.  Perfect activity for an afternoon at the park.  Click here to see the process step by step on art teacher Ted Edinger's blog.

vegetable stands

Even when I lived in Saitama, I saw them everywhere: little stands with vegetables you could buy for about 100 yen, everything from a big zucchini to a bundle of cute little eggplants.  I loved the sign on this one. オール１００円 = Oru 100 en = All 100 yen. 

Really nice variety at this one!

the walk to school

It takes about 45 minutes from my apartment in Nakayama Yoshinari to the school in Yakata, just enough time to really clear my head and get the energy boost I need for the day.

From the top of one hill, you can see the school through the break in the trees.

At the bottom of the last hill in the walk, this scene is breathtaking.  The rice is, in my opinion, the most beautiful color a few weeks before harvest, when it is this yellowy green, a tertiary color on the color wheel.  Art connection.

Watch where you walk.  The spiders are biggest at this time of year.  I couldn't resist snapping a picture of this little community.  There's a lot of them, but I'm sure they all stay well fed.  I almost walked into this gigantic web myself!

The blessings of beauty on my daily walk are numerous!