I LOVE teaching art, and I LOVE displaying my students' artwork in the classroom - it adds such a personal touch. This year I'm trying something new with our art display. I changed bulletin boards for our art, and I now have a HUGE bulletin board for our display. For our first finished art, I displayed all 28 pieces. When it came time to post our second pieces, I took all but 3 down (the top row) and displayed all new pieces under that. When it comes time to complete and post our third piece, I will leave the first row up (our name spheres), the second row up (our 3D pencil crayons), and post our third piece on the third row and below, and so on. This way, a sample of all our art will be on display. I will take it all down at the end of our first term, and start over again for second term.
For our first art projects of the year, I always like to do some sort of name art. For this project, I gave each student a piece of 8.5 x 11 white paper, with a circle already drawn on it. They had to write their names in block or bubble letters, filling the circle as completely as they could. Each letter had to touch the top and bottom of the circle, as well as the letters beside it. Once students had written their names, they got to color the letters any way they wished (most went for the rainbow theme). Students then cut out their names and glued them to a piece of black construction paper (9 x 12).