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Tam - Hi Carrie
Carrie - Hey Tam
Tam - How's it going?
Carrie - Fine
Tam - I've got some exciting news...
Carrie - I am so busy that I almost forget about this every week
Carrie - yes...what is it?
Tam - I'm getting a house!
Tam - me too
Tam - I didn't log in until it was over last week
Carrie - WOW~
Carrie - That is great!
Tam - My husband and I are renting a house from his parents
Carrie - Where are you buying?
Tam - in Atlantic Highlands
Carrie - or renting?
Tam - it's sort of a unique situation, because they bought this house to retire in
Tam - but they are going to let us live there while we get on our feet
Tam - maybe 1 or 2 years
Carrie - that is great
Tam - I'm so excited!
Carrie - that is in southern NJ, right?
Carrie - I would be too!
Tam - We just found out last Friday
Tam - it's central Jersey...on the shore
Carrie - do you know what exit on the parkway?
Carrie - LOL
Carrie - that is how we find everything in NJ
Tam - 117a
Carrie - oh wow that is closer than I thought
Carrie - I am exit 138
Tam - Atlantic HIghlands is right by Sandy Hook, so I'm looking forward to a lot of beach time
Carrie - so it is near Sandy Hook
Tam - yep
Carrie - just make sure you don't go to the nude beach
Carrie - LOL
Tam - hehe I've heard about that one
Tam - my sister in law's brownie leader accidentally took the troup through the beach when they walked too far along the shore
Tam - that was years ago and we still laugh about that one
Carrie - oh no!
Tam - Hi Artie
soosweet - hello
Carrie - Well u are always welcome to come to my art room when you move here
Tam - the whole troup had to walk with their eyes covered until theh poor troup leader could get them out of there! lol
Carrie - experience a day
Tam - wow, thanks carrie
Tam - I might have to take you up on that. It looks like you do a lot of great projects
Carrie -
Carrie - Thanks!
Tam - I had to endure a 4 hour meeting today with one of my least favorite clients
Carrie - Hi Artie & soosweet
Tam - they want to completely redo their website, and my contact there describes herself as a "pitbull"
Tam - sounds like fun, right?
Artie - I wanted to say HI!
Tam - How was school?
Carrie - tons of fun!
Artie - My day was ok!
Carrie - school was hectic!
soosweet - Does anyone have an idea how to use power point with first graders?
Tam - I've used it
Tam - what sort of things did you want to do with it?
Tam - you can add simple animation, and even sound
Artie - Yes, I do, soosweet...there are many ways!
Tam - where do you teach artie?
Artie - I teach in central IL
Tam - by the way, I looked at your website the other day, Artie
Tam - I like the way you set it up
Carrie - we should all share our websites!
Artie - I haven't updated my website for a while! *grin*
Carrie - I love to see what everyone is doing!
Tam - lol! I understand
soosweet - I want the first graders to use it. and do a presentation
Tam - if you're interested in seeing anything I've done, one of the sites I designed is
Tam - www.cpgarch.com
soosweet - I was thinking maybe sight words or Money
Artie - soosweet, does your school have "kidpix"?
Tam - you could have them tell a story with hit
Tam - with it
soosweet - No Artie What is it?
Carrie - KidPix is great!
soosweet - Yes, that sounds great Tam Thanks
Artie - Soosweet, it is a program like powerpoint, only geared more to a younger student...
Tam - that sounds pretty interesting
Artie - Powerpoint may be to difficult for 1st graders...at least where I teach....
soosweet - Artie.. I am going to have to look into it..
Artie - Our district has it and has a license...
soosweet - I have to bring tech into the classroom.. The Big boss is watching... and wanting to see the kids work on it.
Artie - I try to bring tech in everyday!!!!! the kids love it!
soosweet - Artie what grade do you teach?
Artie - I teach K - 12
soosweet - Carrie and you Grade?
Carrie - 1-5
Artie - I have to go, but its been nice chatting for awhile! bye
soosweet - How come a big gap?
Tam - Hi Jo
soosweet - Gotta go.. thanks for the help and chat.. Have a great Wednesday in class
Jo - Hi, gang what is the subject?
Tam - They were talking about KidPix
Tam - I tried to see more about it but couldn't connect to the websitge
Tam - I tried to see more about it but couldn't connect to the website
Jo - Tam, how is your take on the art ed doing
Tam - I took my Praxis II Saturday
Tam - I think I aced it
Carrie - How did that go?
Jo - What does that entail? Tam
Tam - I'm moving back to NJ in May and I'm looking into grad schools
Carrie - ceramics ?s
Tam - there were a lot of ceramics questions
Carrie -I remember that
Jo - Interesting like what?
Tam - more questions about specific artists and art periods than I expected
Tam - for instance
Carrie - yes and more modern artists than old masters
Tam - there were multiple choice questions about what Picasso's inspiration for Les Madmoiselles was
Tam - yep
Tam - in fact, those were the few questions I had to totally guess on.
Jo - IWhen I was coming through I onlr had to worry about a very generalized exam
Tam - It was pretty tough, though I took a lot of studio and history classes in college so I felt prepaired
Tam - it was also at 7:30 in the morning on Saturday
Tam - sort of an endurance test too
Jo - When I taught high school I had to bring the art history in under cover all kind of different crafts
Tam - what sort of projects did you do?
Tam - Carrie, I saw a bunch of your classes' projects online
Tam - I liked your cubist pictures
Tam -
Jo - For Rodan found light weight cinder block the kids could sculpt, impressionist were science lessons of defused light with deffferent lenses and valcanic eruptions!
Carrie - thanks Tam@
Carrie - I am making stickers
Carrie - I am starting that project next week
Jo - Carrie like that idea
Tam - what's involved in that?
Tam - the stickers idea, I mean
Jo - Yes Carrie what's involved?
Carrie - Oh....the 2nd graders just finished up their Pop Art project
Carrie - and I give them an evaluation sheet that is very open ended
Carrie - Like What is the funniest or craziest thing about Warhol's art?
Carrie - If he was still alive, what subject would he print next?
Carrie - I get a lot of Spongebob answers for that one
Tam - wow, that's pretty in-depth for 2nd graders
Carrie - I just finished checking them and I created POP-TASTIC stickers on Word
Tam - that's great
Jo - Carrie good for you using Warhol with second grader keep those expectations up
Carrie - to put on their papers
Carrie - The second graders love him!
Tam - neat idea!
Carrie - They love his wig!
Carrie - and I have an adorable Andy Warhol doll that I put in class
Jo - Carrie have you tried Chagall (sp)?
Carrie - the kids love having Andy in class
Carrie - no I haven't
Carrie - Here are the artists I talk about
Tam - they make a Warhol doll? I didn't know that. I'm sure that makes him more interesting
Tam - they should make a Dali doll too
Carrie - 1st: Pollack & Roualt
Tam - he could come with his own bugs!
Carrie - 2nd: African Art, Dada Art, Mondrian, Warhol, & Rousseau
Carrie - 3rd: Matisse, Haring, Moses, Munch, & Seurat
Jo - Absolutaly .. kids love the melting watches
Carrie - 4th: Cassatt, Degas, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Hokusai
Carrie - 5th: Escher, Leonardo, Ringgold, Nevelson, O'Keefe, Dali, Magritte, and Wright
Jo - Carrie incredible is this on your own our is there a nwish curriculum out there?
Carrie - a year after i was hired the staff was asked to rewrite the curriculum
Carrie - so I rewrote the entire art curriculum for grades 1-5
Carrie - I never knew there was a Dali dolll!
Tam - how do you incorporthat must have been tough since you were such a new teacher
Carrie - I will definitely have to find one!
Tam - sorry, I spazed out there
Carrie - got some ideas from books and then I also had some artists that I love like Haring
Carrie - and just came up with an idea
Tam - Haring is great for kids
Carrie - sometimes it worked , sometimes it didn't
Tam - such fun compositions, they must love your class
Tam - I don't think there is a Dali doll...I was just imagining what it might look like
Jo - Carrie what about a parent who is craft oriented.. I had a parent design several character figures for the classroom. The kids favorite of course was a "plague rat" we were doing the middle ages.
Tam - which projects didn't work so well?
Carrie - oops....I must have read it wrong@
Tam - how was the plague rat made?
Carrie - well sometimes u do a project one way and decide to do something a little different the next time
Tam - oic
Jo - Carrie have you seen the series Scholastic has on the "great artist?"
Carrie - not that I know of
Jo - Tam , plague rat was soft sock with pointed nose and ears whiskers
Carrie - what is the title?
Tam - lol
Jo - Carrie,I'll have to look them up I may have a couple left, you vcould have
Carrie - that sounds great!
Carrie - Where do u work?
Jo - Another artist type thing was the older kids did cartoon strips about their artist
Jo - Carrie I was teaching in Florida but most of my time was with DODDS
Carrie - Cartooning is great with kids
Carrie - I do lessons right after the holidays on cartooning with grades 2-5
Carrie - Actually next Wed. we have a color blocking artist for Disney coming in to show the kids in 5th grade how a cartoon is made
Tam - Carrie, do the kids pick their subjects?
Carrie - He is a neighbor of one of the 5th grade girls and he volunteered to come in and talk to them
Carrie - Tam, what do you mean pick their subjects?
Jo - I loved having artist and crafts people come in. I use to have a nn Arts Festival every year in the Spring
Tam - for the cartoons. Is there a theme for that one?
Carrie - in 2nd grade we work on animal cartooning and cartoon heads
Carrie - I use the Bruce Blitz videos as motivators
Tam - I did a fun "project" with 4 of my grade school cousins last weekend
Carrie - in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades I have videos by a cartoonist named Frank Webb and he uses letters to create characters
Tam - we made cartoon faces out of letter
Tam - letters
Carrie - that is also a motivation for their own project
Carrie - in
Jo - Kids like his stuff
Carrie - Frank Webb or Bruce Blitz?
Carrie - in 3rd grade they create their own unique character
Carrie - in 4th grade they create a cartoon of the Jersey Devil legend
Carrie - and in 5th grade they create a creature that would live in the Nowhere Zoo
Carrie - Did u know that Bruce Blitz makes school appearances?
Tam - Well guys, It's 9:00
Tam - I guess I'd better be going
Tam - it was nice talking to you both
Carrie - Bye`
Tam - talk to you later carrie
