Organization is key

So my kids know I'm a little crazy about clean up, but with reason. I see 730 kids a week- I do more dishes at work than I do at my house. So cleaning up is important. I have given all the kids jobs that help out in some way. I even organize the caddies with their day to day supplies. Each color goes to that color table, it is picked up at the beginning of class and returned at the end. Even the spots are labeled. (See I said I was crazy) 

Only thing missing are the pencils. 

I finally came up with storage for the art journals. Only 4th and 5th grade are doing them. They  will live on this shelf 

Each class has a code. 

Hooray for organizing. 2 days til kiddos! 

Mini classroom Tour

So I caved.. I went back early because I just couldn't help myself any more. I wanted to set up my room! 

Here are some pictures of the in progress set up. I have a clear theme this year - Rainbow- which you would think is pretty obvious being the art room. 

I finally inventoried all my glazes. Thank goodness. I had some many that were old, dried up and useless. Sorted by glaze/underglaze. I swear to glaze more ceramics this year. 

Visible supply bins! Now I can direct the kids to get their own things and they don't have to check every cubby to find it. Woohoo! 

For early finishers as described in earlier posts! They can sit and draw the image in front of them. A little bit of extra practice goes a long way. I make sure to tell them to concentrate on line, shape, and value as they only have a pencil to work with. 

I have a shape and form version of this simple poster so I decided to make a simple line one. This will help in the first few weeks because most of my units cover line first. 

This is my semi-done front board. Learning goals are all the way to right and hung. But I don't have the grade level printed off yet. Next to them will be the essential questions. To the left is the art rubric I'm using this year. Below the board are the jobs. I have decided on a nifty way to get the kids to NOT PICK THEM OFF THE TABLE.  Which makes me absolutely crazy! And I'm going to hang them from forms from the ceiling. Pictures on that later.

A closer look at the jobs. 

Here is the rubric a little closer. 

Another early finisher station.. 

I wish I had better wall space to hang awese artwork in my own room. This will do.. For now.. 

Well I feel very accomplished for 6 hours work. Can't wait to officially go back on Monday!