Embarkment…
Welcome to cadoodleboose! Here you will find an online curation of the art works created by my eclectic grouping of students at MSEC. These students are either on the autism spectrum or dealing with...
View Articleagony
A six year old girl with autism named Elizabeth, expressed the need to talk by compiling the letters A G O N Y, when her teacher asked her to spell a word that started with the letter ‘A’. It turned...
View Articlecutting circles
The goal of this lesson was to develop the fine motor skills of the 6-9 year-olds in the PDD group. Each student was given two pieces of colored paper with several circles drawn on them. Once the...
View Articlemovement
First I showed my students art work by Keith Haring. I asked them what they saw, most answered “dancing”. I then asked them to show me some movements that they could capture in a pose. After I showed...
View Articlean unexpected blessing
While I was a student teacher my practicum teacher would say, “cover all of the white”, “draw big”, “fill the whole paper”. I began to ask the students to do this as well. The artwork looks great and...
View Articleit’s (not) ridiculous
As a student from the Art Ed program at MassART we were taught TAB- Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Basically you supply the children with all available material, an idea, and they can make their art...
View Article5 ways to avoid an art related conflict
1. Be Prepared- know that it is a very good possibility that you can’t please all of your students all of the time. Go into the lesson with a plan B for the student(s) you think may have difficulty...
View Articlethe forecast said it was sunny
I checked the weather last night to plan out my FUN FRIDAY!!!! activity, sunny and 60! The plan: the PDD group-side walk chalk, the EBS group-disposable cameras. The forecast LIED! It was overcast all...
View ArticlePaul Klee chalk cats
This is a lesson I found when searching through direct line drawing lessons. It was an absolute success. The students loved it, and filled in the entire picture. Each one show so much personality! I...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
It’s been far too long since I have updated and I thank you for your patience! I can’t wait to share the lessons we have completed so far this year! Our collage self-portraits which we started the year...
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