Nicole Drummond

Another awesome piece of artwork from one of my 6th grade students!

Students learned about line and pattern by creating their own henna tattoo designs. They LOVED this assignment and were so engaged the entire time! They just finished up another unit on color where they did oil pastel drawings of flowers.

My school and kids are AWESOME! I love teaching middle school! The kids are hilarious! (Though it seems like every day they try to ask me more and more personal questions! Which, of course, I do not answer! A kid asked me how old I was the other day and I replied, “Between 10 and 60.”)

Display of the hennas my 6th graders drew!!

Started a side project of a latch hook rug. As if student teaching weren’t enough work. It’s actually very calming/brainless. It helps me wind down every night. (Plus it will be an awesome sunflower rug for my new apartment!)

Is it weird that I’m most exited to get an apartment to hang up my artwork and Zac’s artwork as decoration?

6th grade project on line- finished example.

7th grade finished their photo Polaroids, now are starting ok designing an agenda book cover! They took a quiz on the photoshop tools and did EXTREMELY well! Considering the average was about a 40% on the pre-assessment and now the average is 100% (extra credit questions help!), I’m QUITE pleased. :) the kids are so excited to learn about photoshop!

My henna tattoo (zentangle inspired) example! I like this WAY more than traditional zentangles. Plus henna ties in other cultures and the kids can relate to it!

I love middle school!

Name tag I made for myself. Still doing zentangles (kind of) with 6th after the break, but more along the lines of henna tattoos and the Indian culture! They’ll make the patterned designs/lines on a drawn hand! Then a Mexican paper cutting assignment focusing on different color groups
(analogous, triadic, complementary), etc. Then observational drawing, a short one on portraiture, and then papier mâché cities!!!! I’m most excited about that assignment. Then either Islamic tile designs or mosaics.

For 7th grade I am currently teaching layers and proportion. Then they will be designing their agenda book cover for next year (photography and graphic design), something with text?, and maybe another project depending on how far they get.

I REALLY like this digital class, plus I get to use a smartboard!!! Good thing I just took a photoshop course last semester. :)

Middle school is my favorite, and it is only week two. (I still love elementary dearly as well— I just enjoy middle school more!)

My mentor likes to start 6th grade with zentangles, learning about line. We get a new group of 6th graders in the new marking period after spring break, and then I will start with them! (We see 6th grade mon-fri an hour each day for the full marking period.)

I wanted to adapt the zentangles into more than just patterns filling up a page, so I’ll have the students make trees maybe. Or I might have them do their names (so I can learn them quicker!) Either way this starts in 2 weeks. I start teaching the digital palette classes next week!

Those classes had a project that was created by a man who provides lessons for digital palette (as it is a new course and many teachers are unfamiliar with it), but I edited the lesson/unit and redid the PowerPoint so that it makes more sense for the students!

I’m glad to already be working!

Best tattle in the tattle monster yet. Little kids are SO CUTE.

Kindergarten color mixing! (mondrian style)

One first grade class is SUPER ahead and I needed a one day lesson— paper mosaics! They are making flowers for spring, focusing on pattern.

Got this in my fortune cookie! Perfect. :)

Some of the prints from 5th grade’s pop art printmaking unit! Crazy days of printing, but the results make it worth it!