The first week of five weeks is finished at Hughes High School! This week, my main emphasis was on teaching and exploring color theory and color schemes with the students. We began with a powerpoint presentation and guided note taking for them to keep in their portfolios. We reviewed the color wheel and color mixing.

Their first in-class assignment was to complete a color scheme flipbook. The students wrote the definitions on each of the tabs of different color schemes. On each tab, the students glued three examples of the color schemes from magazines available in the classroom. Example.

The assignment was modified for the mentally handicap students, their color scheme flipbook was reduced to a selection of five color schemes. They were to glue pieces of construction paper down that are included in the color scheme. Next, they took color scheme crayons and created a design on the top of each flap, having two ways of showing the color schemes. Example.

These will be used over the next four weeks, as my student teaching experience will be heavily focused on color, color mixing and theory.

Arty On!