My fifth grade students bring a variety of perspectives and experiences to our classroom, while also sharing the unique experience of growing up on our island home of Maui. Our school is arts-integrated, which means that we use the arts as a tool to understand and communicate what we learn in other subject areas. As a result, my students connect their learning in meaningful ways to their own lives, communities, and experiences.
My students are creative, expressive, and they light up when learning connects to their lives and interests!
Having a visual arts background, incorporating art is one of my favorite tools for teaching. Even without my urging, my students are often drawing or creating some sort of art!
My Project
My students learn best while creating, and these spiral sketchbooks will help us do that! Our class will use visual note-taking and creative journalling techniques to record our questions, knowledge, and ideas in meaningful and expressive ways. With this journal, students will connect their learning to their own lives. We will also use this sketchbook to uncover the connections across subjects, exploring where math, science, art, reading, and writing all connect.
Watercolor, pen, ink, and collage will all be used, so our class needs sketchbooks with sturdy, mixed media pages.
These are the best price for size and quality that I've found. The other supplies, such as gesso, mod podge, and painters' tape help us personalize our books and will expand our mixed media possibilities.
Over time, these sketchbooks will become beautiful keepsake journals students will enjoy revisiting, and will thus continue to renew their knowledge and memories all year and beyond!
Canson XL Series Mix Media Paper Pad, Heavyweight, Fine Texture, Heavy Sizing for Wet and Dry Media, Side Wire Bound, 98 Pound, 7 x 10 Inch, 60 Sheets
• Amazon Business
$6.97
24
$167.28
02916-1001-Plaid Mod Podge - Paper, Matte Finish, 16 oz
• Blick Art Materials
$8.66
1
$8.66
02916-1106-Plaid Mod Podge - Paper, Gloss Finish, 16 oz
• Blick Art Materials
$8.66
1
$8.66
00711-1016-Blickrylic Gesso - Pint
• Blick Art Materials
$6.24
1
$6.24
24146-3460-Blick Painter''s Tape - 3/4" x 60 yds
• Blick Art Materials
$4.96
1
$4.96
Materials cost
$195.80
Vendor shipping charges
$14.95
Sales tax
$8.62
3rd party payment processing fee
$2.94
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$252.31
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$44.53
Total project goal
$296.84
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$296.84
8 Donors
-$221.84
Donations toward project cost
-$188.56
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$33.28
match offer
-$75.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$63.75
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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