When you step into my classroom you will see students busy at work learning, creating, and manipulating materials. You will hear students talking about artists and their own art making. You will also see a lack of space for student movement, with every inch of the room being taken up with supplies.
My students are bright, intelligent middle schoolers with a spark for knowledge and a wanting to learn.
They are trying to figure out who they are as a person and a student while battling the ideas that they will not amount to anything because of who they are and where they come from. My students are from the poorest and most rundown neighborhood in the community; but you would never know it if you saw them.
My students have a thirst for creativity that is constantly being challenged in their everyday lives. They want to learn and create, but are also trying to figure out the point of all of it. Everyday is a struggle to teach my students how to not only draw, paint, and build but also how to be positive members of society and how to work with their peers.
Last year, I had a student tell me that is my class she learned to "be in a room with people whom she would normally fight, but instead be able to work with them." This shows me how important it is to build a classroom community.
My Project
Middle school is a tough time for students, especially in this ever growing technological world! My students rarely get a break from technology from using it in classes, at home, and the fact that it is in their pockets at all time! My students need a time and place to be creative away from technology. They need to be able to make, manipulate, and build in a safe environment.
The art classroom is the place where we are always designing and making and my students need cordless hot glue guns, and glue sticks in an easier and safer manner. The artroom is not only small, but it does not have much extra space after holding material and artwork of close to seven hundred students.
The lack of space, and safety concerns that come with it have made it difficult to create the three dimensional sculptures that my middle school students need and crave! The cordless glue guns will make it possible for students to create their work at their tables cutting down on movement in the classroom.
Donations to this project will help improve the safety of my art classroom.
All over the room we are having to house art materials and artwork, and without the cordless hot glue guns, I have to worry about students moving about the artroom to use hot materials.
Students staying in their seats cuts down on middle school gossip and bullying, as well as artworks getting ruined. The cordless glue guns will allow for more hands on three dimensional artwork that my students crave and love to create.
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