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TAEA & VAEA Journal station notes

Keeping a Journal Station
Lee Tyler Darter
Art Education
Cedar Point Elementary
Prince William County Schools-Virginia
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1. Be organizes but also be flexible. Have a journal station manager in each class to organize at clean up time. Have a clear label on things to make clean up easy.
2. Beg, barrow or …..well don’t steal. Send out emails, write in the school newspaper, and look on eBay. Everyone is willing to help you get supplies if you let them.
3. Things to ask for: stamps-both kinds, ink pads, old books, composition book (new and uses), fancy papers,
Stickers, letters, punches, crayons, fancy markers, fancy scissors, regular scissors, magazines and old maps to cut up, newspapers, glue sticks, watercolor crayons, old file folders, gesso, 8 ½ x 11 80lbs white paper, collage material such as ribbons, puzzle pieces, buttons, scrap booking supplies, etc.,
4. Keep Idea books on hand: art journal image books I like: Personal Pages and Inspirations: 1000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn De Vries Sokol; Art Journaling by Somerset Studio –Summer 2010, Alter This! Radical ideas for Transforming Books into Art By Alena Hennseey
5. Students have a better buy in to the “self-directed” aspect of journaling when they make their own books.
6. Journals make great emergency sub lesson plans.

Journal Topics
* Choose topics that are relevant to the grade level (well duh Ms. Darter). I know, yuck…but cross-curriculum education is all the rage and your classroom teacher will appreciate the help. Maybe she will stop stealing your construction paper!

First Grade: I have a bucket filled with first grade sight/spelling words. The student pulls out a word and has to fill the journal page as if they were illustrating that word in a sentence. There are also random topics in the bucket the student may select such as fortune cookie notes and dictionary page numbers. Also a good website to check out is: http://www.thewritesource.com/writing_topics/#one

Second Grade: Pictionary cards! I have a large die, which the students roll and that is how many cards they count back. They select their card and then have to draw 2 out of the 5 words listed. They create a story by combining the two words selected. There is a card master who is in charge of the cards. This is someone who is responsible and usually finishes his or her work early. And yes, I know what you are thinking; there are words I have had to black out with a Sharpie like Sadam Hussein. Just did not know how to explain that one. Relax… those words are rare and it is really fun explaining new words to the kids. They know more than they think they do after you explain it to them. And the art turns out cool too.


Third Grade: Altered books! First you have to explain “out of circulation” books! There is a disclaimer…”do not do this in your textbook”.
http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/handouts/258journal.html
is a great website for topics. Also check out www.souljournaling.com and her twitter page at: http://twitter.com/Sarah_Whitmire
She not only gives you great topics but new materials to try. I highly recommend this one but you have to have a tweeter account. While you are there you can check out my tweeter
Page. http://tweeter.com/2doodleallday
Try Dawn DeVries’s site www.dbloala.com here she has the work of the day to journal. Dawn is the Queen of journaling.

Forth Grade: Research projects on different artist from their choosing (kind of)…I have a basket of info and specific website for them to choose from. These are all artists from their textbook; Heaven forbid someone might want to look up controversial urban street artists on the Internet!

Fifth Grade: I have found through the years that given free time to draw 5th graders would rather play, gossip, talk about rap music stars or sleep! I have developed a list that is quite laid out and detailed for the 5th graders…you know, just to help them stay focused on art. See 5th grade lesson plan, which includes binding and topic page.


Covering and Binding
There are hundreds of correct ways to cover a book. But these are the best ways to do it in elementary school! Find several you like and create a station for them.

The ways I have found that work best for me are:
1. Colorful Duct Tape-Comes in many colors and styles and makes a great spine to bind through. I also get old wallpaper books from decorating stores and from eBay. What did we do before eBay?
2. The correct tool to use for poking holes is an awl. This is a devise that looks just like an ice pick and will most likely get you on the evening news if you let your students use it. I use the sharp end of a compass and I usually do the whole punching myself. I also have a hand drill, a 3-hole drill, which 4th and 5th grade can use on their own and a long arm hole punch, which doubles as a grommet smasher.
3. For binding I use a craft needle, which has a huge eye and a blunted end. You can use yarn or waxed thread, which I also get on eBay but you can also get it at Sax if your admin will not reimburse you for eBay shopping.
4. Glue-liquid and stick. A flat piece of mat board for spreading glue, manila paper to spread the glue on and a brayer for rolling out pieces after gluing.
5. You will also need pages for your journals. I Use old file folders, and 8 ½ x 11-inch 80lbs paper. If you can afford heaver weigh paper get it. But do not go less than 80lbs.
6. For the covers you can use anything you can find. Items like game boards, poster boards and colorful boxes make great covers. Regular cardboard boxes work fine as well. If you can get them composition books make great covers just rip the insides out (save the paper) wrap the spine with Duck Tape and replace it with file folders cut to fit.


Extra
Please see my blog for brown bag books, mini books, flower journaling, form journaling, floppy disk books, Alpo can books,
Spool scrolls, flag flip books, Textbook work, ribbon flipbooks and fish doodling (under construction)