Housekeeping: Keeping Markers Intact

I'm so happy that this markers hack works! I saw this artroom hack some time ago and I thought I should try it too. It's too silly to worry over the lost of markers' covers or duplicate colours in a set. Sometimes, you have the whole set dropped on the ground and the markers seem to have a mind of their own. They can roll under the children's giant Smiggle lunchbox or fall into their school bags. 

Despite all my tellings, you just have that set of markers that are not in place and you can spot them miles away but no time to fix. I removed all the unnecessary packagings and secure them with Duck Tape (not kidding, that's the brand). It's also easier to sanitise this way. The neon tapes are so brilliant and blinding no children can miss returning. 

Just a word of caution, you can't cut the tape with scissors as the adhesive is too strong. NO MORE MISSING MARKERS! YAYY! 

Art Class: Make Your Own Book

I have finally finished reading all these stories to my students! They made these books during Home-Based Learning. You can view this post about this lesson. Since we can't do an exchange of books to read, we look at everyone's drawings and sequence of stories by sharing under the visualiser.

Art Class: My Favourite Things

Jazz up the pen and paper drawing by providing children black papers and white pens. We decided on a theme, My Favourite Things, since everyone wanted to do something different. I did a sharing of all their work under the visualiser There was a boy who requested for the spelling of some types of dinosaurs and I replied that I don't know how to spell! Anyway, we looked it up on the search engine and he pointed out the correct words that he saw. Poring over their drawings is so enjoyable 😻

Art Class: Exquisite Corpse Drawing Game

Hi Teachers, my students are playing a drawing game in class. I've adapted the collaborative feature to individual work. The A3-sized drawing papers are cut lengthwise for this activity. Watch the video to find out more!

Pecha Kucha Presentation

The Japanese has different concepts of life. In Ikigai (reason of being), it's about the purpose of living. In Wabi-Sabi (embracing imperfections), it's a world view dedicated to acceptance. And now, there is even a concept in presentation! 

My first encounter of Pecha Kucha (chit-chat in Japanese) style presentation was an event at Japan Creative Centre in Singapore. I didn't know then there was such a thing but the simple presentation was very captivating and held everyone's attention throughout. It is a presentation format which shows 20 chosen images, each for 20 seconds, designed to be completed in 6 minutes 40 seconds. 

As teachers, we conduct multi-modal presentations to our target audience. What we do depends on the availability of our resources, knowledge and judgement. While not all teachers in the world would have access to school wifi, working laptops, visualisers or document camera, we just have to be creative and learn to navigate restrictions. 

Let me interest you with a photo of two pigeons that is unrelated to this post :D

Art Class: Animal Collage

Hi Teachers, my students are making collage this term. We started the unit by looking at Henri Matisse's artwork, L'escargot (1953) and talked about his life and artist qualities. Here's a video demonstrating the artmaking process. 

Art Class: Paintings

Hi teachers! how I miss working in the art room. I have only been using them as storage rooms for the children's artworks since three months ago. 

These graduated students from last year did their Surrealist paintings. They managed to complete them prior to their final exams. Take it as your graduation gifts 😆 was what I'd told them.