Yearbooks!

front cover

back cover  (everything is actually straight on the cover, it's just the angle I took the picture at)

One of my jobs at school is the yearbook adviser.  This is a huge job and takes up a lot of my time during the school year!  I am very proud of how the yearbook came out, but unfortunately I can't show you the inside pages because they are photos of kids (of course.)  The yearbook staff is made up of students mostly in grades 7 and 8 and some years we have 6th graders too.  There are about 15 kids each year on the staff.  We make the pages using Photoshop and InDesign and get it printed at a local printer.  It has been cheaper than going through a yearbook company and they can print the yearbook in a little over a week.  I used to do the yearbook at another school and we would go through Jostens.  Jostens was very helpful and great quality, but we had to have all the pages turned in by March (I think that was our deadline).  This way, we can work right up until mid May and still have the yearbook printed. 

stacks of yearbooks.

"soar" is written in the clouds

Mobiles-- 7th and 8th Grade

Mobiles, by 7th and 8th graders
I wanted to share with you some of the mobiles that the middle school kids are doing at my school.  I share a room with another art teacher, and I see all the projects they create.  This is a really awesome project!  The kids are having a blast and they are learning all about balance, movement, three-dimensional art, and more. They each started with large wires and these sticks (which I didn't know what they were last year, remember?).  They bended and twisted the wire, added jump rings and constructed objects to hang from the wires. 

using wire mesh

tinfoil, wood, wire

cardboard and paint

felted ball, wood pieces, beads, twisteez wire

wood wrapped with wire and a button

little boats!

colored foil