Making my own baby food

Today I made my first batch of homemade baby food! I made sweet potato puree for baby Gunner! He is almost five months old. At four months we started to give him rice cereal mixed with juice once a day. Now he is getting rice cereal mixed with mom milk twice a day. I had to revise how thick I was making the rice cereal (i was making it too thick) because he has started to become constipated... makes for a sad day for my baby Gunny. He also likes it better with the mom milk then with the juice. We still give him a little bit of juice because it helps with his lack of poopiness... but anyway I made my own baby food and Gun loved it! He practically licked the bowl, it was all gone! My dad got us the baby bullet system to help store homemade baby food and it is a really cool system. I have enough sweet potato for him till the end of the week. I can't wait to make him more. I love that I know what is in the food I am giving him! And I love to watch his face when he tries something new. At first he's not quite sure if he likes it... then he really gets into it and I can't get it into his mouth fast enough!

Extra Credit

Attend an Art Exhibit and blog about what impressed you...

I attended an art exhibit at Utah State entitled "Please Touch the Art." I thought that this was a really interesting show because everything there was interactive. Usually when I attend an art exhibit I have to restrain myself from touching the pieces but it was encouraged here. I thought that this was good for learning how a piece was made and to be able to interact with materials that I normally don't work with. It helped me to learn about the materials that I don't work with so that I can incorporate them into my work. I also thought that this type of show would be perfect to take younger students to so they can get excited about working with new art materials by interacting with the pieces in the show. This was an awesome show that was also very educational.

Gesture Drawings

First Gesture Drawing
Second Gesture outlined drawing
Shaded gesture drawing

Contour Shoe Drawings

Contour

Three Self Portraits

Instructional Posters

Practicum Reflection- examples of six grade student work

Collographs: crayon rubbings and prints

What things would you change next time you teach this lesson?

This lesson requires more time then I previously thought. I don’t have experience teaching lesson in an elementary setting and I thought an half hour would be enough time. I was wrong. I think at least 2 of these time periods would be necessary to complete the project. The students were too rushed to complete the assignment. If I were to do this project again with I would definitely plan more time for the students to create their project

What was the student’s response to your activity/teaching? Were they receptive?

The students really like the idea of the project. They wanted to do learn to do printing making. They also really liked the cubist artwork that was on the side show presentation. They were interested in making their own work of art. They were excited to do an art project and that new people were there to teach them a technique they didn't already know.

Has this experience gotten you excited to teach art?

Because of my lack of experience working with elementary age children I was really nervous to teach the lesson. I have plenty of experience with two year old children and day care age kids, so it was scary going from kids so young to six graders. Add to this that I haven’t had time to get to know each child… I was really nervous. I think that I did a good job though helping the kids to understand the project. I am really excited to teach art however I think I would like to be with younger kids.