“I’m me! I’m Different! And proud” - Portraits

I work as a roaming Art Teacher for grades 1-3 in Ben Tzvi Primary School in Afula once a week.I work through a wonderful organization called Keren Karev.

I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!

It’s definitely quite a challenge, but ever so rewarding!!And I love it!!!!

Thanks to Patsy from Deep Space Sparkle I was able to tackle portraits! I bought Patsy’s amazing PDF “Fun with Portraits” it is fantastically laid out & very helpful! Thank you!!! As always soooo inspiring!

We took 2 lessons to complete our portraits .I bought some mirrors & showed the children how beautiful they are .They loved this!

We worked with pastels, watercolors & gouache using artlines for our outlines.

Just look at all these gorgeous, beautiful, amazing children!!!

Grade 2's looking at their amazing results

Wonderful, colourful and fun portraits with my Grade 2's

Self Portraits with my Grade 1's

Self Portraits with my Grade 2's

Self Portraits with my Grade 3's

The Underwater World: Grade 1- 3 (November 2013)

I work as a roaming Art Teacher for grades 1-3 in Ben Tzvi in Afula once a week.

I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!

It’s definitely quite a challenge, but ever so rewarding!!And I love it!!!!

I wanted to do a project with all 3 of my grades .Something that we could collaborate to make something special! To show them that each on his own is special & beautiful but together we are amazing!

I thought underwater would be something bright & colourful!

I must say I was a bit apprehensive but it was a very successful, though hard working project!

The grade 3’s started with the background, I took them out of the classroom and I must say it was a bit wild!but they had fun & made beautiful backgrounds! I decided not to take the others out as 45 mins just isn’t enough!

The grade 2’s & 1’s were instructed to draw fish and seaweed (I prepared some worksheets with ideas which I handed out for those that wanted inspiration) I reminded the kids that if we copy something we must always change some details to make it our own!

I then took home all the paintings of fish and that’s when the hard work started I cut out all the fish & stuck them on the backgrounds (a surprisingly long process! Really it took me over 3 hours!)

Just look at the wonderful results!!!We are all very proud!

And the schools walls are brightened up!

Grade 3's working together

Great textures happening

Working together

Different shades of blue

Paints, pastels, markers, pencils and happily painting children

Cutting out the fish

One board done!

And another

Loving those colours!

Each fish has its place under the sea!

Even mermaids & castles!

Three boards connected and up on the wall!

Two boards connected & up on our walls!

Lesson :7 -13/11/13 -Helping Hands

This is the year I officially started teaching art lessons in the public schools through a program called Keren Karev.
I teach grades 1-3 at Ben Tzvi in Afula once a week.
I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!
It’s definitely quite a challenge but ever so rewarding!!And I love it!!!!

Inspired by a posts that I found in Pinterest I decided to make a poster for the walls using the children’s hands.
My school (Ben Tzvi) is very much concentrating on the motto of reaching high goals & developing the individual to his /her full and amazing potential so I thought it would be most appropriate! I thought it would be something great to do with the grade 1’s & 2’s.
 We used permanent markers for the outlines. Most of the kids managed to “trace “their own hands but it was actually quite a challenge for them, so I walked around helping them. They then decorated & coloured in the hands with colour markers in any colourful way that they chose.
I then cut out each and every hand and stuck them down (which was a surprisingly long process) but the results were astounding!

Filling in the details & patterning

"With a open heart and guiding hands a child can reach great heights!"

Art with Ben Tzvi and Keren Karev

Lesson 4: 23 & 30/10/13-Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Today would be our first experience with paints! I was both very excited & nervous!!I don’t have a home class room, no basin & I have full classes of up to 28 kids….and only 45 mins. to do it all!!EEEK! But my teachers are a great help! (The homeroom teacher stays with me) I don’t know what I would do without them!!!

We rearranged the desks to make groups, I brought a bucket of water (my mobile sink), tin cans for each desk and we got started!

Inspired by the beautiful work my private classes came up with I decided to do this at school too!

I showed them Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, some of them had seen it before. We talked about the shapes & colours and I showed them how to draw a simple vase. I told them they could decorate the vase as they wished. We also saw how if we added a line at the base of the picture we could have a table.

We used permanent markers for the outlines, watercolors & blue tempera for the backgrounds.

Though we were stressed for time (it could easily be a double lesson) It was a very successful event! And the results are superb!!!!

 

The grade 3’s wrote tests that morning so I had a small group of kids to work with! We were allowed to work in the library .We painted tortoises and had the best time! The grade 3’s painted their sunflowers the following week on the 30th

 

Art with Ben Tzvi and Keren Karev

This year I officially started teaching art lessons in the public schools

through a program called Keren Karev.

I teach grades 1-3 at Ben Tzvi in Afula once a week.

I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all!

It’s definitely quite a challenge but I love it!!!!




Lesson 3:16/10/13-Beetles,bugs & butterflies

I don’t have an art room as yet and so no easy access to water and a basin so paints are a more advanced option. But I really want to add colour to the kids’ lives and the school corridors!! So with guidance of Patty of Deep Space Sparkle I decided to venture into bugs. Simple yet colourful and full of pattern!

I was busy contemplating as to how I would introduce the kids to the bugs when on the road I spotted this incredible creature! Sent from the Gods!

A fantastic introduction!

And just look at the kids incredible artworks!

 

Art with Claudia– Jerusalem

This was a class with a difference! It was my youngest, Etai's class (25 grade 1 boys!)Eeeek!!!! Specially seeing that my English Art classes are 6 max!

We wanted to do something about Jerusalem as it was Jerusalem Day coming up. Being passionate about recycling I decided to do something with recycled goods. I had to find something small without too much mess & fuss. Toilet rolls would do the trick!

We collected toilet paper rolls, a serious amount of marker pens, paper & a glue gun.

I showed them how to draw different buildings & icons found in Jerusalem & we went for it!

I also had a few gold pens up my sleeve for the domes! and just for fun we added red roofs.

The results were astounding! Great fun was had by all! I was simple, small & just perfect for them

And they were ever so proud of their great creations!

Art with a splash of English – Houses & Buildings

Being a Children’s Book Illustrator myself I like to incorporate stories & books wherever I can!

Teaching English in a fun & creative way I decided today we would learn words for buildings.

We looked at different houses & buildings around the world. I showed them a book that I had written & illustrated "Save the Star" . We saw that buildings looked different in different parts of the world. We looked at huts, castles, flats, temples, towers and more. We learnt words like windows, doors, walls….

We folded our papers in half, drawing the building on the top half and then carefully cut the doors and windows open to reveal what was inside. The kids delighted in surprising me with all kinds of creatures, messages & even curtains.

One kid, inspired by the floods in Tel Aviv on that particular day & the book "All Afloat on Noah's Boat", drew Noah's Ark as his building

Great fun was had by all!

Houses & buildings in a city, love those colourful windows!

Castles & towers, just love the gold!

I love the detail of the roof tops!

Yay!markers or if you're South African "kokis"!