Art class set up

I'm finally back from maternity leave and ready to teach (kinda)! Can I bring my baby with me? Can he be my assistant? No? Awe. :( Towards the end of the last school year, I came back from my maternity leave early so that I could work the two days of post-planning. I decided it would be best if I were the one to clean up and put away my classroom, so I’d know where everything was when I officially returned. Last school year, we had to take EVERYTHING off of the walls so that our custodial…

Its half way through my teaching cycle. Creating, balancing and managing an art room is crucial when I see each class only fifteen times per year.

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14 years ago I walked into my very first art room, full of so much excitement but also feeling totally overwhelmed wondering where to even begin!?

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It's time for another year!

First teach really great art lessons. It helps when you have special art teachers. Then add really great art that our talented students made. Bagels are good too. A great big room. Thanks to the Hudsonville City Hall for letting us use their space. Ladders, labels, some twine, hours and hours of prep are all part of it. Really great High School art student helpers Done !! Happy art teachers. Proud parents and honored artists.