Jeanne kraus's Posts - Teaching Toons2024-03-28T13:15:15Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraushttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1484119636?profile=original&xn_version=202403260758&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1&xj_user_default=1https://teachingtoons.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=39ob0cv4dceqo&xn_auth=noLast day of cartooning classestag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-07-11:5470656:BlogPost:115272013-07-11T17:10:29.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>We all got together and finished up the project for the lobby. We all took turns painting, making a sign, and finishing up what ever had to be done. It is placed in the conference room ready to be displayed for the fall. The summer cartooning program was a success. The first week was very packed with students. The second week, which was around the 4th of July, had less students due to the holiday and traveling. It was nice to be able to give more students personal attention on the…</p>
<p>We all got together and finished up the project for the lobby. We all took turns painting, making a sign, and finishing up what ever had to be done. It is placed in the conference room ready to be displayed for the fall. The summer cartooning program was a success. The first week was very packed with students. The second week, which was around the 4th of July, had less students due to the holiday and traveling. It was nice to be able to give more students personal attention on the second week. Hopefully in the future we can do this again. The students and parents enjoy it!</p>Wednesday, July 3rdtag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-07-03:5470656:BlogPost:116252013-07-03T13:45:33.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is the third day of the Cartooning Camp/second week. We have two projects going on at the same time. The students are working on ashcan comic books by folding the paper into quarters and creating an eight page comic book. Also, Mr. Mike interviewed Aidan and Alton yesterday abut their animation projects that they worked on since the last cartooning camp. Mr. Mike took the time to put it on CD last night. They will get their own copy. Mr. Rinderle is heading on the 3-D cartooning…</p>
<p>Today is the third day of the Cartooning Camp/second week. We have two projects going on at the same time. The students are working on ashcan comic books by folding the paper into quarters and creating an eight page comic book. Also, Mr. Mike interviewed Aidan and Alton yesterday abut their animation projects that they worked on since the last cartooning camp. Mr. Mike took the time to put it on CD last night. They will get their own copy. Mr. Rinderle is heading on the 3-D cartooning wall painting. This will be displayed in the lobby. It is 6ft. tall and 5ft. wide. The students are in the process of painting it. Mr. Rinderle cut it out with an electrical saw yesterday. It was traced on the wall by projecting the elmo. We look forward to see the final piece for the school. Respectful, Responsible, Focused, and Safe will be draped across the figures to line up with the school's theme.</p>July 1/July 2tag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-07-02:5470656:BlogPost:114112013-07-02T14:08:53.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is the first day of the second week of cartooning. Most of the students that we have are repeating from the first week of cartooning. Each student worked on creating a character to be used when creating a story on the story board format. Mr. Rinderle has taken one of the cardboard walls (7ft. by 6ft.) and drew two students standing with their arms on each others's shoulders. It was drawn, traced, and cut out. The students will begin painting it on Wednesday. We are focusing on no…</p>
<p>Today is the first day of the second week of cartooning. Most of the students that we have are repeating from the first week of cartooning. Each student worked on creating a character to be used when creating a story on the story board format. Mr. Rinderle has taken one of the cardboard walls (7ft. by 6ft.) and drew two students standing with their arms on each others's shoulders. It was drawn, traced, and cut out. The students will begin painting it on Wednesday. We are focusing on no bullying concept, respectful, responsible, focused, and safe. We plan on displaying it in the hallway for the fall. Tuesday we continued the story board and the wall. This week is not as crowded as the first week, though it has been a benefit with all the little projects that we have. There are great projects happening!</p>Friday, June 28th Last day tag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-06-28:5470656:BlogPost:116202013-06-28T14:50:08.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is the last day of the first week of cartooning. Some students will be gong on vacation next week. We had a very fun day today. Paul showed us a small animation piece that he created last night. The students created and made thier pins. Each group got together and created a creature. They had to draw it and figure out the habitat, predators, prey, and adaptations. Each group came up to describe, show, and talk about their creature using the elmo. The week turned out to be very…</p>
<p>Today is the last day of the first week of cartooning. Some students will be gong on vacation next week. We had a very fun day today. Paul showed us a small animation piece that he created last night. The students created and made thier pins. Each group got together and created a creature. They had to draw it and figure out the habitat, predators, prey, and adaptations. Each group came up to describe, show, and talk about their creature using the elmo. The week turned out to be very successful. I feel the students will leave with a deeper knowledge about drawing and animation! Thank you Mr. Rinderle and Mr. Bocianowski for all your expertise and talents.</p>Day 4 of Cartooning June 27tag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-06-27:5470656:BlogPost:114052013-06-27T14:13:06.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today we started out with a CD of animation pieces that Aidan and Alton created. They learned from this class how to create their own animations. WOW!!! There was music and credits too! Scott, who is in 7th grade, came in and surprised us. He showed us animation pieces that he made on his camera. He was in the cartooning classes a few years ago. Once again-look what these kids have learned from this summer cartooning class that they have taken away and used!!! We created another animation…</p>
<p>Today we started out with a CD of animation pieces that Aidan and Alton created. They learned from this class how to create their own animations. WOW!!! There was music and credits too! Scott, who is in 7th grade, came in and surprised us. He showed us animation pieces that he made on his camera. He was in the cartooning classes a few years ago. Once again-look what these kids have learned from this summer cartooning class that they have taken away and used!!! We created another animation piece today out in the hallway. The students represented cars coming out from different alley ways. AWESOME!! We are then going to show the piece and move on to creating out buttons to be made tomomorrow. I can't believe how fast the classes have gone. It has been so successful!! Hurray!! Tomorrow Week 1 is over!!</p>3rd day of Cartooning Summer Class June 26, 2013tag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-06-26:5470656:BlogPost:113812013-06-26T14:54:17.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>We started off the day finishing up our flip books. We also caught up two students that were not here yesterday. From there we went into watching a funny short clip on a cartoon character trying to get rid of a cat. It was a good example of animation without dialogue. Mr. Mike brought up a clip on the computer that showed two men fighting over a flower. It was such a fabulous introduction into filming and movement to created a short animation piece with people. The students lined up and…</p>
<p>We started off the day finishing up our flip books. We also caught up two students that were not here yesterday. From there we went into watching a funny short clip on a cartoon character trying to get rid of a cat. It was a good example of animation without dialogue. Mr. Mike brought up a clip on the computer that showed two men fighting over a flower. It was such a fabulous introduction into filming and movement to created a short animation piece with people. The students lined up and headed for the gym. Mr. Mike had to set up first ,so Mr. Rinderle played a game-guess my drawing. It was so fun. Then we had a couple students go up to the board and try the game with their drawing skills. Once Mr. Mike was set up ,the students numbered off 1-5 and proceeded to follow the direction to create their first animation piece with Mr. Mike filming and Mr. Rinderele directing. It is such a true learning activity. The students must be very patient. They move step by step by step and then Mr. Mike will play it fast and they will see their animation creation of all the students moving together! 24 students showed up today. We missed Rebecca.</p>Summer Cartooning-Day 2tag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-06-25:5470656:BlogPost:116042013-06-25T15:40:34.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>We started out the day by reveiwing the concepts of squash and stretch when cartooning. Mr. Mike showed a short video on someone drawing from 100 years ago. It showed Winsor McKay's hand drawing and sketching. Then he made the sketches look like they were moving. He made 4,000 drawings in one month. It shows how animation began. The students loved this old film. Harry Hausen is another artist to look up if you are interested in drawing and animation. We have four new students today.…</p>
<p>We started out the day by reveiwing the concepts of squash and stretch when cartooning. Mr. Mike showed a short video on someone drawing from 100 years ago. It showed Winsor McKay's hand drawing and sketching. Then he made the sketches look like they were moving. He made 4,000 drawings in one month. It shows how animation began. The students loved this old film. Harry Hausen is another artist to look up if you are interested in drawing and animation. We have four new students today. The total today is 24. It is a great number to work with. We handed out bazooka gum to each student and shared our comics. Great way to start out class! The class continued with making flip books. The second execise "challenge" was called-"Taking a Line For a Walk"-draw a dot then on the next paper draw another dot up and etc. etc. Fill up the entire page with one line. It will look like you are actually drawing a line. By the way-our trail mix snacks and water was very yummy!! Mr. Rinderle stepped in ans started teaching facial expressions. It was a blast!!!!</p>June 24th First Day of Summer Cartooingtag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-06-24:5470656:BlogPost:115052013-06-24T15:06:35.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Welcome to our first day of summer cartooning. Mr. Rinderle and Ms. Kraus went out yesterday to get some yummy snacks for the students. Today we made name tags/ created corporation groups in which they will have to do certain tasks. Today they had to come up with a logo for their group. The Chunky Cheese Corporation came up with a jingle and dance to show the class. They were great! Swaginators, Five Crazy Guy and One Girl, and The Moustache Smileys are the groups names so far. We have…</p>
<p>Welcome to our first day of summer cartooning. Mr. Rinderle and Ms. Kraus went out yesterday to get some yummy snacks for the students. Today we made name tags/ created corporation groups in which they will have to do certain tasks. Today they had to come up with a logo for their group. The Chunky Cheese Corporation came up with a jingle and dance to show the class. They were great! Swaginators, Five Crazy Guy and One Girl, and The Moustache Smileys are the groups names so far. We have 21 students today and plan on having at least five more students tomorrow. The Cat Came Back was an oldy but goody cartoon that the students got to see to observe movement, changes, and shapes. The students then created a face, added five steps ,and showed how it morphs or which showed movement on paper. Challenging, but oh how fun!! Students loved this idea. Great job Mr. Mike! The first day so fun and successful!!!</p>Oliver Hazard Perrytag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-05-31:5470656:BlogPost:111952013-05-31T17:44:55.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is the last day for Mr. Mike to draw with the 5th graders. I never saw the Regular 5th grade class so quiet! They LOVED drawing Oliver Hazard Perry. I heard students bragging about their work! This piece of work really focuses in on using many regtangular shapes/lots of erasing! They turned out great! I wish we had more time to hang these. I believe-Mr. Mike also did this exact lesson up in 6th grade too. Mr. Mike went down to the 3rd grade classrooms to promote the summer…</p>
<p>Today is the last day for Mr. Mike to draw with the 5th graders. I never saw the Regular 5th grade class so quiet! They LOVED drawing Oliver Hazard Perry. I heard students bragging about their work! This piece of work really focuses in on using many regtangular shapes/lots of erasing! They turned out great! I wish we had more time to hang these. I believe-Mr. Mike also did this exact lesson up in 6th grade too. Mr. Mike went down to the 3rd grade classrooms to promote the summer cartooning program. I have received a couple of applications, and I expect to receive more. It is amazing that this will be our 4th summer cartooning camp. How quickly time has flown by!!</p>The Battle Of Lake Erietag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-05-29:5470656:BlogPost:110772013-05-29T13:06:10.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is May 29, 2013. Mr. Mike is here teaching the 4th graders. This is their last class with Mr. Mike for the school year. Ms. Easly, the 4th grade Reading teacher, has been teaching The Battle of Lake Erie through the book-Victory Erie, The War of 1812, and The Battle of Lake Erie. Written and Illustrated by Cornell Green. Young Readers Edition The celebration of Perry 200 has been going on starting out with a big Memorial Day parade. I have been teaching various subjects of Erie…</p>
<p>Today is May 29, 2013. Mr. Mike is here teaching the 4th graders. This is their last class with Mr. Mike for the school year. Ms. Easly, the 4th grade Reading teacher, has been teaching The Battle of Lake Erie through the book-Victory Erie, The War of 1812, and The Battle of Lake Erie. Written and Illustrated by Cornell Green. Young Readers Edition The celebration of Perry 200 has been going on starting out with a big Memorial Day parade. I have been teaching various subjects of Erie History also. Mr. Mike is here today to draw the Battle Of Lake Erie. Once again, the students were so excited to learn all the Erie History and then follow up with Mr. Mike. What a great way to add depth to what has been taught. (Common Core)</p>
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<p>We also received a fabulous e-mail from Rebecca's mother thanking us for the LTR program. The program motivated Rebecca to want to draw. She has never shown any interest or had the confidence to show off her writing/drawing skills. Hurray!!</p>Happy Earth Day Week to you all!!tag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-04-26:5470656:BlogPost:110662013-04-26T15:06:02.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today- April 26th in 4th grade and 5th grade we are celebrating Earth Day Week. Mr. Mike is teaching the students to draw a dragon carrying the world like Atlas! The kids had a lot of fun! Remember-Earth Day is Every Day!!</p>
<p>Today- April 26th in 4th grade and 5th grade we are celebrating Earth Day Week. Mr. Mike is teaching the students to draw a dragon carrying the world like Atlas! The kids had a lot of fun! Remember-Earth Day is Every Day!!</p>Parent Nighttag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-04-25:5470656:BlogPost:110592013-04-25T19:11:35.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Parent night was a big success on April 18th. Mr. Mike taught a drawing class with adding adaptations to an organism. Even the parents joined in to draw. It was a great success. A parent ,who is a teacher for the Erie School District, couldn't wait to go back and use Mr. Mike's lesson for his own Science lesson. How about that!!! The next day the LTR program along with Harding students was posted in the Erie Daily Times. It was a nice article!! Hurray! </p>
<p>Parent night was a big success on April 18th. Mr. Mike taught a drawing class with adding adaptations to an organism. Even the parents joined in to draw. It was a great success. A parent ,who is a teacher for the Erie School District, couldn't wait to go back and use Mr. Mike's lesson for his own Science lesson. How about that!!! The next day the LTR program along with Harding students was posted in the Erie Daily Times. It was a nice article!! Hurray! </p>Landscapingtag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-04-18:5470656:BlogPost:111582013-04-18T16:44:25.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Thursday April 18th</p>
<p>Today was an exciting day. We had visitors from all different place. Arts Erie-Amanda Knox, Mr. Matt Cummings from Erie School District-PR , Ms. Hutchinson-the principal, Erica Erwin-Erie Times Newspaper, and Mr. Millette-the photographer and Grayson's father. The 4th grade honors class -all 29 of them-were learning to draw landscapes. Aidan,Alton,Hannah, and Shea were interviewed by Erica Erwin for the newspaper. It was a fabulous lesson on Landscaping. All…</p>
<p>Thursday April 18th</p>
<p>Today was an exciting day. We had visitors from all different place. Arts Erie-Amanda Knox, Mr. Matt Cummings from Erie School District-PR , Ms. Hutchinson-the principal, Erica Erwin-Erie Times Newspaper, and Mr. Millette-the photographer and Grayson's father. The 4th grade honors class -all 29 of them-were learning to draw landscapes. Aidan,Alton,Hannah, and Shea were interviewed by Erica Erwin for the newspaper. It was a fabulous lesson on Landscaping. All enjoyed and were very impressed with the project. let's hope in time we can stretch this out to other schools. We will be getting great photographs to share with all!</p>Ms. Amy Fuchstag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-04-04:5470656:BlogPost:111382013-04-04T13:30:58.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is April 4th and besides Mr. Mike and Mr. Cummings visiting, we also had Ms. Fuchs. She is a fabulous drama artist. She is going to start to work with the 6th graders to create a film piece to be shared with Harding Elementary School. We are so happy and excited to have her on our team! Ms. Fuchs will be blogging what she has to share with us all real soon.</p>
<p>Today is April 4th and besides Mr. Mike and Mr. Cummings visiting, we also had Ms. Fuchs. She is a fabulous drama artist. She is going to start to work with the 6th graders to create a film piece to be shared with Harding Elementary School. We are so happy and excited to have her on our team! Ms. Fuchs will be blogging what she has to share with us all real soon.</p>Streamstag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-04-04:5470656:BlogPost:110392013-04-04T12:46:21.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is April 4, 2013 We have Mr. Cummings observing Mr. Mike today. He is interested in doing a piece with the newspaper on the ArtErie/LTR program here at Harding School. Mr. Mike is working with the 4th graders on drawing a stream/ labeling the parts/ and the land areas. The students have been taught vocabulary/ modeled a making of a stream-tributary/ and now they are drawing and labeling. What a fantastic way to go into more depth about what they are expected to understand with the…</p>
<p>Today is April 4, 2013 We have Mr. Cummings observing Mr. Mike today. He is interested in doing a piece with the newspaper on the ArtErie/LTR program here at Harding School. Mr. Mike is working with the 4th graders on drawing a stream/ labeling the parts/ and the land areas. The students have been taught vocabulary/ modeled a making of a stream-tributary/ and now they are drawing and labeling. What a fantastic way to go into more depth about what they are expected to understand with the Land and Water module. Great common core teaching happening! We will blog soon about what is to come next with Mr. Cummings.</p>Brine Shrimptag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-03-20:5470656:BlogPost:110232013-03-20T16:43:30.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>Today is March 20, 2013 and we are studying Brine Shrimp within their Environmental Module. Mr. Mike is helping the 5th grade draw Brine Shrimp. Brine Shrimp are only 1/2 inch long. They lay eggs that stay dorment as long as 3 years. Brine Shrimp LOVE salt!! It is so fun to take something so small and draw bigger. They also are called "sea monkies".</p>
<p>Today is March 20, 2013 and we are studying Brine Shrimp within their Environmental Module. Mr. Mike is helping the 5th grade draw Brine Shrimp. Brine Shrimp are only 1/2 inch long. They lay eggs that stay dorment as long as 3 years. Brine Shrimp LOVE salt!! It is so fun to take something so small and draw bigger. They also are called "sea monkies".</p>The A B C D of Scientific Drawing Winnerstag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-03-15:5470656:BlogPost:112022013-03-15T14:38:42.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>3/15/2013</p>
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<p>We had four winnners out of six winners for the Erie School District Scienticif Drawing Contest!! Tony and Hannah from 4th grade honors took first place. Grayson from 4th grade honors took 2nd place. Shea Miller from Harding took 3rd place. These drawings and others from Harding Elementary will be displayed at the Bayfront Convention Center at the Home Show. These students had a lot of drawing influence from Mr. Mike and the program! Hurray! By they way they had…</p>
<p>3/15/2013</p>
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<p>We had four winnners out of six winners for the Erie School District Scienticif Drawing Contest!! Tony and Hannah from 4th grade honors took first place. Grayson from 4th grade honors took 2nd place. Shea Miller from Harding took 3rd place. These drawings and others from Harding Elementary will be displayed at the Bayfront Convention Center at the Home Show. These students had a lot of drawing influence from Mr. Mike and the program! Hurray! By they way they had to be accurate, big, colorful, and detailed(labled) along with a paragraph about the habitat of a Dwarf African Frog, Millipede, or Fiddler Crab.</p>Environmental Studiestag:teachingtoons.ning.com,2013-03-14:5470656:BlogPost:108052013-03-14T17:25:12.000Zjeanne kraushttps://teachingtoons.ning.com/profile/jeannekraus
<p>3/14/2013</p>
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<p>Welcome! Today Mr. Mike is here from 12:30 to 1:40 working with 5th grade students. These students are so excited that Mr.Mike had to tell them that he can't look at all the drawings as he is drawing. They drew two shapes and insisted that Mr. Mike come see what they have done. This class has a difficult time focusing. This is such a thrill for them when he comes in. The students are studying Environmental Factors-living and nonliving things that effect an…</p>
<p>3/14/2013</p>
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<p>Welcome! Today Mr. Mike is here from 12:30 to 1:40 working with 5th grade students. These students are so excited that Mr.Mike had to tell them that he can't look at all the drawings as he is drawing. They drew two shapes and insisted that Mr. Mike come see what they have done. This class has a difficult time focusing. This is such a thrill for them when he comes in. The students are studying Environmental Factors-living and nonliving things that effect an enviroment. They have been experimenting with isopods and beetles and whether or not they like moist/ dry environments and light/dark. Yes, we have real live critters in the room! They also grew five different types of seeds that are germinating in terrariums. Mr. Mike is drawing an environment with a muskrat and what is found underneath the water-organisms etc. I felt that since they are studying the plants, isopods, and beetles-let us focus on what is below or hidden in an environment. We are going to study the roots of the plants next and the ddrawings show roots of a tree drawn below the water. Mr. Mike's lesson combines both activites we are doing into one! Perfect!</p>