Art Lady

So I have been wondering what to do for a good lesson plan. Luckily my blogger friends have helped me find an answer. Comics!

There is this great Flash website - makebeliefscomix.com
You can design your own presidential comic. I just need a really good writing prompt! Luckily Bill Zimmerman has a great blog with writing prompts. He doesn’t have one on the inauguration, but I will see if I can come up with one myself. The theme of change is very inspiring!

WRITING PROMT:
The theme for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration is “Restoring America’s Promise,” highlighting the new administration’s mission to restore opportunity and possibility for all Americans. What do you want restored in your neighborhood?

So I printed out a frog template that jumps and we made it. And then Jesus A. made a much better frog, that put my frog to shame! I have been desperately searching for a pattern to use at the Magnet Fair tomorrow to no avail. I did however use the advance search feature on google to get rid of all the video entries I found when I searched for origami frog pattern. I found some cool instructions (a large .pdf file) at origami instructions.com

What is cool is that in some classes, the students can race the frogs and measure to see who is the winner. This integrates math! Also, I read somewhere that frogs can jump like 10 times there length. Neat. I wonder if that’s true.

I have been been trying to follow some of the diagrams in the origami books I checked out in my school’s library, but have been having some trouble. So, since I am a visual learner, I decided to have a look on youtube to see what their origami videos were like. Man, oh man, I hit the jackpot! Roses, rings, snapping crocodiles, cranes, beating heats, you name it! But of course, we can’t see You Tube videos at our school, so I stopped by Teacher Tube. Here is an origami video I found of a crane.

My goal is too add an origami section to the craft page… or just make it’s own page from the craft page. If there was only more time in the day….

Wait stop the presses!!! There is an origamitube! http://www.origamitube.com

Another good website is Alex Bateman’s origami models. I will have to re-visit the site to check out the tesselation paper models.