Running head: CRAYON WREATH

Crayon Wreath Lexie Gierhart and Ana Cardwell Ivy Tech Community College

CRAYON WREATH Name: Lexie Gierhart and Ana Cardwell Grade: 1st grade Common Core Standard: Fine Arts Standard Domain: Visual Arts CCSS. VA.1.6 2008 Standard:

Students create artwork based on family and personal experiences, demonstrating perceptual skills and using symbols to express ideas. They demonstrate thoughtfulness, care, and respect in their art, sharing work with others.

Objective: Students will create a 3 dimensional crayon wreath by using various colors of crayons. They will work together to demonstrate thoughtfulness, care, and respect in their artwork while also sharing with others. Materials/Media/Technology: o 2 pack of crayons (64 pack) o 1 Wreath base (Med/Hobby Lobby) o 1 spool of ABC ribbon o 1 Tiny Chalk board o The letters ABC in wooden cut out pieces (One of each letter) o Glue o Hot glue gun o Yellow Paint one small container o Red Paint one small container

CRAYON WREATH o The Crayons that Quit by Drew Daywalt o Teacher resources: How Parents and Teacher Can Work Together in the Inclusive Classroom and Build Trust in a Classroom.

I. MOTIVATION: We will show the students a picture of the final project that we are doing for the art auction. Dialogue: Today we are going to be working together to make a crayon wreath. Here is a picture of what our wreath will look like when we are finished. After we are all finished the wreath you make will be for sale in the art action to help make money for the school. GOAL FOR LEARNER: To realize that if you work together with others, and respect your work you can make great things. Dialogue: We are going to work together as a class to make an art project. The whole goal is that we are working together as a class. Each of you will have a different task to complete to help put together the wreath as one piece. II. PROCEDURE: 1. Inform the students of what what they will be doing. 2. Assign a portion of the project to each student. a. Have one student paint the chalkboard frame yellow. b. Have 3 different students paint the letters abc. c. Have one student make the bow with the ribbon. d. Have 3 or 4 students sort the crayons by like-colors. e. Have the rest of the students paint the small clothespins different colors. 3. While students are working, get the wreath and the glue guns out and ready to use.

CRAYON WREATH 4. Check on the children that are painting and making the bow to make sure they are on task. 5. Once the crayons are sorted have the students bring up 3 or 4 different colors of their choice at a time for you to glue on the wreath. 6. Keep doing this until the wreath has a bottom layer and a top layer of crayons all the way around. 7. After this, have the students that were painting clean up their area. 8. While one of the teachers is helping glue the other will be reading the book The Crayons that Quit. 8. Have the students that paint the clothespins bring them over to the wreath to be glued onto the wreath over the top layer of crayons. 9. Glue on the clothespins yourself. 10. Have the student that made the bow bring the bow to be glued on. 11. Glue on the bow yourself. 12. Have the student that painted the chalkboard frame bring the chalkboard up. 13. Glue the chalkboard onto the bottom left corner. 14. Have the students that painted the ABC bring them over to be glued on. 15. Glue on the ABC on the top part of the frame of the chalkboard. NEW INFORMATION: They will be applying and showing that they care about their art work individually and together as a whole.

Dialogue: Today we are going to be focusing on group work, and working together. Each of you were assigned a task that will be completed in order for the wreath to be created. With everyones help and everyone doing their part, we will be working together to

CRAYON WREATH create something greater together.

CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING: Watch the students and see how well they are working together. Make sure they demonstrate thoughtfulness while completing their individual tasks. Dialogue: What questions do you have so fa? If you dont have any questions that is okay. You may have some later once you each get to working on your own task and feel free to ask one of us at any time if you may need help. MODELING: During the first step of the procedure show the students a picture of what they will be creating and leave the picture up throughout the whole project. Dialogue: Up on the board is a picture of what we want the wreath to look like. You can see that some of you will be working with crayons, some working with paint, and some working with gluing. GUIDED PRACTICE: Read the book The Crayons that Quit Dialogue: While some of you are bring your parts of the wreath up to be glued on the rest of you will be reading the book The Crayons that Quit. We will be calling you or your group up to help glue on parts of the wreath. Make sure you are doing it quietly so the other students can hear the story.

CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING: Discuss with the students what each of them did and how they helped with the project. Dialogue: What was your favorite part of the project? What part did you do to help put the wreath together? Are you guys proud of your artwork? Do you see how working together as a team can be positive?

CRAYON WREATH PRACTICE: Putting the wreath together as a group and make sure they are working together. Dialogue: Remember that everyone should be working together. ASSESSMENT: Make sure the project looks somewhat like the picture, and see that every student helped with the project and helped clean up. Dialogue: Make sure you cleaned up your whole area and put everything away. EXTENSION: Discussing the book and relating it to what they did that day. If there is time we will also read The Crayon Box that Talked. Dialogue: Does anyone remember what the book was about? How does the book relate to what we are working on today? What was your favorite part of the book? If we had any crayons that quit would our wreath be as colorful? CLOSURE: Make sure everything is cleaned up and have the students tell us what they thought about the project.

Dialogue: What was your favorite part of the project? Would you guys like to do more of these crafts and projects in the future? How did you like working as a team? What did you learn about teamwork today? With ourselves and with the book? EVALUATION

Category Working together

Excellent
Students all work together on their

Poor
Students did not work together to

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assigned task.

complete their assigned task

Neatness and Organization

Students cleaned up after their task and completed their task on time.

Students did not clean up their area or do their task on time.

Understanding

Students thoughtfully reflected on their work and how it tied into the book.

Students did not participate in reflecting/ They did not understand how tied to the book.

CRAYON WREATH References Daywalt, Drew. (2013). The Day the Crayons quit. New York, NY: The Penguin Group. Derolf, Shane. (1997). The Crayon Box the Talked. Random House Books for young readers. Eredics, Nicole. How Parents and Teacher Can Work Together in the Inclusive Classroom. Retrieved from http://nichcy.org/how-parents-teachers-can-work together-in-the-inclusive-classroom Vasicek, Brent. (2011). Building Trust in a Classroom. Retrieved from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/classroom_solutions/2011/03/building-trust in-a-classroom