The best lesson done in our art class was the fish project.That is of course because Heather and I led this lesson. This was a simple project designed for a 1st grade classroom. It was a fun lesson to teach because we treated all of our peers like first graders the entire hour. The project was pretty simple, but we went through it step by step and found it pretty effective even for our classmates.

For our lesson plan and instruction Heather and I each made a fish. I also made a "bad fish". How was it bad? It wasn't properly colored in and the rules were not followed.

The major part of this lesson was understanding patterns. We went through direct instruction and guided practice with the students. We also made sure everyone was checked for understanding. I feel that we did a good job of showing how this can tie into other subjects. We used math standards to help find an idea. We also talked about parts of fish. Lastly, as part of a reading and writing deal we planned on doing writes about each fish, but ran out of time that day.

This is the fish I made. Notice there is a pattern on him. I chose a circle-square-triangle-square pattern so that the ending results would look like a checkerboard.



This is a picture of our board with everyone's fish on it. Catch of the day! Every students picture was taken while holding up their prize catch.

* This board was done the way it was to show everyone's personal art and picture. We believe it shows creativity and organization on the students and ourselves behalf.