Art with a splash of English- Painting on Canvasses (Tal Menashe)

Is there more fun than painting on a canvas?

All that I stipulated was that they had to come up with 2 different pictures, to make a series. The subject matter was freedom of choice, but we did try to think of things that would work well together & things that were big enough to fill a canvas.

My girls are so very talented & I was well impressed!

We used acrylics & took 2 lessons to complete our master-pieces!

Ayelet painting her sunset

Another beautiful sun being painted by Myann

Alice in Wonderland

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!!!!

As part of the art program I teach through Keren Karev "Alice in Wonderland" was on the charts.

We were given great posters of Alice and her adventures which I showed the kids. They then told me that they had a book and we looked at the pictures together.

My grade 2’s are very creative, but also very active so I like to give them 3D options. I am constantly on the lookout & collecting all sorts of goodies. I had collected a whole box of cards that weren't full packs.

Add some plasticine, match sticks & marker pens & there you have it!

Fun, fun, fun!

My amazing Grade 1's

Look at all these great card people!

What an amazing combination of collage and materials by Ori Grade 2

English with ABC Institute

Alongside my art teaching I also work with a wonderful group of teachers in program called “English with ABC”

I work with grades 1-3 teaching English in a fun & creative way. We sing, we dance, we write, we draw…basically we learn to enjoy English!

I follow a set curriculum, but wherever possible I do add my artistic touches!

I work in a beautiful school called the "Ner HaGilboa" located in the stunning Gilboa Mountains.

Learning colors with ABC & Van Gogh's sunflowers

Learning numbers with our great song "Tell me, tell me, what's the time!?"

Georgia O'Keeffe Flowers

Hi! 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!!!!

Inspired by the wonderfully bright, vivid & larger than life flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe I decided to do a project with the kids. It worked well as it also tied in with spring.

I also took the opportunity of teaching them about the colour-wheel & contrasting colours.

I introduced them to Georgia O'Keeffe and we looked at her amazing paintings that I made posters of.

I told them to imagine themselves as being as small as a beetle or fairy & feel the huge size of the flower. I instructed them to try to reach at least 3 sides of the paper.

We worked on black paper with oil pastels (grade 3’s) & blue paper (grade 2’s)

We also looked at how the pastels came out on black paper & how if you added white it changed the outcome also gave out small printed colour-wheels and encouraged them to use contrasting colours in their backgrounds. They also loved discovering new colours by mixing 2 colours together.

I took 2 lessons for this project although some did manage to finish in 1.

I was most concerned that the boys wouldn't want to draw flowers but they loved it too!

The results were spectacular & we were all very happy & excited !!!

I cant wait to hang them up!!!

I love this pic!They are all having so much fun!

My one class of grade 3's with their amazing creations!!!

Grade 3 at Ben Tzvi

Grade 2's working on blue paper

Grade 3's  pastels on black paper

Masks for Purim

Art with a splash of English- Masks for Purim
After reading our English story we went straight to making masks for Purim
We used cardboard, pastels & glitter
What a lot of fun!

What a lot of fun!With Cloudscape Studios

Art with a splash of English- Trees for Tu BiShvat (Tal Menashe)

Something fun for my littlies!(Preschoolers & grade 1’s)

 Being close to "Tu BiShvat" the Jewish Holiday celebrating the birthday of the trees I thought it appropriate to do something fun with trees. After seeing how successfully the kids at school had drawn their hands I thought it would be a great start for the tree.

After reading our English story together and having our normal discussions & giggles we all sat around our table ready to start.

I gave then each a brown recycled page of paper & they drew their hands, cut them out & stuck them on beautifully radiant blue paper!

They have finally caught on to collaging & love it! They also worked with markers and stickers.

I think it was a greatly successful project! So colourful & fun!

Trees for Tu BiShvat- Studio in Tal Menashe

A Map of the World -Together we make something new

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

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

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

This was a project I did together with my grade 3’s.We had a quotation to express as an artwork. (In Hebrew obviously)-Loosely translating to small things together making something new .With my love for collage I wanted to create a large picture that everyone could do a small part of it .I thought immediately of Van Gogh’s corn fields, but after talking to my instructor (Michal) we thought it would be great to do something that would also go hand in hand with the motto of this year “I’m different”.

After some thinking I decided to do a map of the world.(it also has room for stars & a funky frame)

I have wonderful pieces of cardboard cut into squares, put them all together & drew the map. I colour coded it & all it was ready for the kids.

I got the kids to work in pairs and gave them glue, magazines and coloured paper .They really got the concept of collaging this time & it was great fun!

My outlines of the world

Bits & bobs of colour paper that I have been collecting for years

Oooooh such fun!Magazine cuttings

Look at how beautifully they worked together!

What a wonderful collage of our world!I love it!