Mrs+Heim

=Welcome= = = =I teach fourth grade at Coolidge School. This summer I am teaching the 'Virtual Explorers' class, and I am learning as much as (or more than) my students! We are using Asus tablets to explore many of our interests. Along the way we are also exploring the tablet itself and the many applications we can use to share what we've learned.= = =

= = =First we explored a few famous artists and their different art forms.= = Georgia O'Keefe = After we learned about Georgia O'Keefe, we took our tablets into the garden to take pictures in Georgia O'Keefe's style. Check out my students' galleries to see some of their work. Then they used Supernote to create a 'painting' of their favorite picture.

= M.C. Escher = The next artist we studied was M.C. Escher. You can see examples of their own tesselations on the students' galleries. = = = Romare Bearden = = Our final artist was Romare Bearden who was an American artist known for his collages. We attempted to reproduce his 6-panel collage "The Block". We took a walk around our neighborhood and took pictures of everything from houses, to cars, to flower pots, to dogs barking at us. We really paid attention to the things that things that expressed a 'feeling' we get from our neighborhood. We used these pictures to create our own 9-panel collage of the Coolidge neighborhood. = = =

= Haiku Hikes = = We used our epads to take pictures of different areas around Coolidge that we 'hiked' to. We wrote haikus to express our feelings about the nature we saw. = = =

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