PTCP Winter Quarter: Week One

So I had this idea to document my curriculum at one of my jobs by blogging. I can post pictures of the activities when I set them up and use them to keep track of which materials I use this week, as well as how the children use them. I've never been very good at keeping all my curriculum development documentation in one place. I journal regularly, and often do my planning in my personal journal. This doesn't work so well when a fresh journal coincides with the middle of a school year...

This quarter, I plan to do a color study of sorts. Valentines day will be snuck in there with a yummy snack/art activity (something I haven't done with this program yet), and there are always emergent opportunities that can throw things off a bit. I'm trying to incorporate it with a winter/weatherish theme a bit. I really want the focus to be on the children repeatedly having opportunities to explore and use basic art materials, rather than them creating cute winter weather cookie cutter projects.

So here we go. My goal is to post once a week about the art and other activities I prepare for my two weekly classes at Port Townsend Cooperative Playschool.

Week One: White on White

Pain in the a$$

I'm posting this here so I can link to it. The end.

Firefly

One of the schools I teach at is Firefly Academy Preschool. Recently Erica, the owner, asked me to design her a business card for a networking meeting happening in here in Port Townsend. This is what I whipped up:

I also made a header version for the Firefly website and will continue to work on graphic and web projects for the program once I'm done with my summer adventuring...

dbb Header

DEW

This wonderful dewdrop image came from Lois Mason Photography, traded during her remodel by dbBrad. I used the dewdrop and the language of dbBrad's existing logo and card to create a logo and card for dbBrad's Division of Earth and Water.

Inhabitat's People Towels Design Competition

Today I came across a design contest put on by Inhabitat and People Towels. People Towels are a brand of cloth hand towels intended to replace paper towels and reduce waste. First place winner gets $500 and 10% of sales after the first 500 sales. Second place winner gets $500. Third gets $250. Today was the last day to enter the contest, so I threw together something real quick (ok, I spent hours on it, and learned a lot in the process.)

Anyway, here it is:

Wish me luck! Finalists will be announced March 14th.

Dear Mr. Greenguy

Dear Mr. Greenguy is a project I am doing with Brad of dbBrad. I created the logo, built and manage the site, while he researches and writes the articles. We both do marketing. The goal is to create a complex knowledge base of informative articles about sustainable buildings and to have a set of fun and informative Q & As in the style of Dear Abby. 

Dear Mr. Greenguy is my first wordpress site. I chose wordpress because I tweak code better than I speak it. We needed a site that Brad and I could both access. Something where he could make regular entries, where readers could submit questions, and where I could manage static pages. Wordpress is great because there are a ton of plugins available that allow us to create a far more dynamic site than if I was fumbling my way along. I'm learning a lot as we go.

Mr. GG, as we call the site, is still a baby. Check it out. Follow us. Ask us a question. Help us grow.