The Painting Center in my TAB classroom

The Painting Ce​nter in my TAB Classroom The Painting Center was the third center I introduced after the collage center and the drawing center. The poster below is

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The Collage Center in my TAB classroom

The Collage Center in the TAB Classroom Collage was the second center I introduced in my TAB classroom. The sign above was introduced and is always there though

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The Drawing Center in my TAB Classroom

The Drawing Cent​er in my TAB Classroom The Drawing center was the first center I introduced in my new TAB- choice based art classroom. The Drawing center has

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TAB Resource List

Resources for TAB- Choice Based Art Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a nationally recognized choice-based art education approach to teaching art. Developed in Massachusetts classrooms over thirty

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Why I switched to TAB-Choice Based Art

Why I switched to a TAB-Choice Based Art Program If you've been on this blog before than you know that my methods have always been to allow the

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Castles for Purim

This project was done with 2 different first grade classes.Castles are where the kings and queens live so it fits in perfectly with Purim.I started by hanging up

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The Art of Beverly Buchanan for Kids

Beverly Buchanan is a contemporary artist that I chose to highlight because I thought her work was great for the kids to imitate.She paints a lot of shacks

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Four Ways to Make Trees for Tu-B’Shvat

Since Tu-B'shvat is the holiday of trees it makes the most sense to create trees and I have 4 different ways you can do so. The first one

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Chalkboard markers perfect for kids portfolios

I was recently sent these chalkboard markers to review and I decided I can only review them if I actually saw how they worked in real life. It

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2 Mixed media fall projects using warm color tissue paper

The media used for these projects (mixed media)were bleeding tissue paper and oi pastels. there were 2 different grades that did these 2 projects.A first grade class and

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