Ute Pass Elementary is a small school located in Chipita Park Colorado. There are 161 students total from Pre-k through 6th grade. District 14 refers to this school as "The village school with a global reach". It is a small school that is planning to expand do to its unique programs such as 6th Grade Mountain Academy of Arts & Sciences. When attending staff meetings the principal was very adamant about creating the next environmentalists to help change the world. Students are so encouraged to change the world that even after the pledge they say "if it is to be it's up to me."
Ute Pass is not very diverse and is primarily Caucasian students. The image below is the diversity chart according to niche.com.
https://www.niche.com/k12/ute-pass-elementary-school-chipita-park-co/
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During my time at Ute Pass elementary I had the pleasure of teaching kindergarten through sixth grade. I volunteered in pre-k and managed an after school program where I taught kindergarten- fifth grade how to sew.
In kindergarten I taught a lesson on shapes and Pablo Picasso. Students were given the challenge of Pablo to transform shapes into a story. Attached below is some of their artwork. In the images you may see some fun titles such as "little peep" and "The sea monster of the Dead Sea"
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In first grade I taught a lesson all around if you give a mouse a cookie. We explored concepts such as foreground, background, cool and warm colors, and neutral colors. Attached here is that lesson. We furthered their knew knowledge on composition and in the next lesson I had them look at landscapes were background, middle ground, and foreground were clearly demonstrated. Then they were encouraged to create their own landscape painting that showed their composition understanding.
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In second grade we I taught two lessons, one lesson all about butterflies and we explored cool and warm colors. The second lesson was a history lesson about ancient Greece and the pottery that was made. This was a collaboration project with their home room teacher who is talking about ancient Greece. Attached here is the lesson I taught. Students had to create pottery that showed a story that they had either made up or was true. attached below are some images of their pots.
In third grade I co-taught with my mentor teacher Beth Romano. For the end of the year art show students are putting on a shadow puppet performance of the story of Pandora. So for my time at Ute pass I assisted and helped the students create their life sized puppets.
For 4th grade I taught another collaborative lesson with their home room teacher. Attached here is the lesson. Students explored the history of stained glass and why it was made. With the history we were able to tie it into personal narrative and the students created their own personal narrative on stained glass (acrylic on thick plastic). At the end of creating students were given the opportunity to talk about their art, their narrative they wrote about in their homeroom class and if they would have changed anything to demonstrate the story better.
In 5th grade I taught a social justice lesson about animals and the environment. I wanted students to learn about animals that were either directly impacting the environment or animals that were being impacted by the environment. Attached here is the lesson. In this lesson students had to research and animal, write a paper and then create it. Some students even related it to home and they have an overpopulation of deer and it is causing car accidents and dead deer all along the roads of the mountains.
In 6th grade I co-taught with Beth Romano. We taught students about leading lines, monochromatic compositions, and lessons about letting go. The first lesson I helped her with was a lesson revolving the book I-spy. Students had to learn about leading lines to keep the viewers attention and monochromatic colors to hide images within the composition. The lesson we taught about letting go was sand art painting. The students got to watch a video about sand art and where it came from and then as a group they created their own. Students were very focused in this and proud of what they had made. They asked if we could take pictures of their work (which we did) and then we had them carry them outside and the wind took away the sand and we taught them about how everything is temporary and we all need to let go sometimes.
