Placement: Brook Thompson

Location: Lake Country School

Grade(s)/ Year(s): 1-3

Hours: 3

Wednesday, March 4

For this class, the students continued to explore the art medium of printmaking with stamps and collographs. Similar to last week, many of them really seemed to enjoy cutting out their own shapes and coming up with different patterns. Some of the students even continued to work on more complex stamps that they started last week. Observing each of the student’s stamps, I thought that all of them were very creative and were different from their peers. One of the students even tried to make a stamp out of a pet rock that they brought in. Similar to the last time they were printmaking, many students were swapping stamps between table groups and were coming up with different patterns and collographs. There were some that wanted to challenge their printmaking skills by creating letter stamps. One student even wanted to try to spell out their name. I was impressed by how determined the students were when they wanted to create letter stamps. It’s not an easy feat, since they knew that the letters had to be backwards in order for the stamp to work. However, they stuck with it, and because of it, the students were successful. 


Next Lesson Plan:

This week, I also talked with my practicum professor, Lynda Monick-Isenberg about my lesson plan for next Wednesday. Overall, both my professor and my placement thought that the idea was creative and a good way for students to try out a new art form that most of them have never tried before. To make sure that I log my lesson plan in, I’m going to record myself teaching to the class on my phone attached to a tripod. Over the weekend, I’ve prepared my example flipbooks of both a growing shape and flower for the students to observe and flip before starting their own. I’ve also prepared blank flipbooks for the students that consist of 21 index cards and one medium binding clip. While I am still a little nervous to teach for the first time on my own, I believe that it will work out in the end, I might even enjoy teaching on my own.