Breast Cancer Awareness: Garden of Hope Mural Pictures

Here are pictures of the ceramic Garden of Hope mural we put up at the end of October for Breast Cancer Awareness. All students helped to install the mural.

Clay Rocks

I've been branded by the term "ROCKS" and thought I'd start this post explaining why I use the term a good bit.

When I was teaching over at Timberlane, the middle schoolers used the term "rocks" a LOT. Well, now it's 2 years later and although I am no longer at Timberlane, the term has stuck.

At Bear Tavern and Toll Gate we LOVE clay. It's awesome... it rocks!

Here are the place mats that I made last year for use while creating ceramic projects and/or glazing them. I just took them out and will be using them a ton.

Abigale working on her guppy @ BT

On each place mat there are ceramic vocabulary terms highlighting handbuilding methods, the kiln, glazes and tools. 

I want my students to have a good art vocabulary and will be working to increase their working vocabulary in several ways. 

Garden of Hope

We're working on a mini ceramic mural  roughly 12' x 4 'ft that all students @ Bear Tavern will help to assemble later this month.
The mural is dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness month and is in conjunction with the "mini walk" that Mrs. Overman is running. She has other activities planned but enlisted my help with the artsy part.
Here is a clay tag that 5th graders Julie, Anna and Tiffany made today. They will glaze it once it has been smoothed out and fired in the kiln. Nice job girls!