Full Page Borders - Three ideas for teaching

1) Introduction Things

Choose a subject - the sea work well (you could also have a farm, Wonderland, an amusement park or a class of current events).

Ask each student one thing that you would find at sea by that name. Write these on the board. Probably you end up with a list like this: shark, octopus, jellyfish, sea, starfish, seahorses, algae, shells, sand, stones, corals, whales, dolphins, mackerel, squid, rainbow fish, tuna, crab, lobster , sponges, sunkTreasure, shipwrecks, etc.

Ask students to draw on each of these things in full-page limit. I have one or two students, who fear it will not be able to everything, to help in the form, I draw a large rectangle on the board and divide into 20 to 30 shares. This class gives a general idea of the size of each object.

Perhaps you have students who are interested who can not paint all these things are. I tell my students to draw the key features for the firstand then everything else will be added to. If you are a shark drawing big teeth and long body is the first and everyone will know what it is. When you draw an octopus, the eight legs, pull first. If you are drawing a fish's tail, fins and lips first draw.

To extend this lesson, ask students to write a page of history contains many elements of the image. It can be very useful for tracing lines and brainstorming adjectives before you start.

2)Rewriting Project

If the class is working on a story or report, can be very difficult to motivate students to write a draft, edit, and then write a second version. Many students do not write their stories or to report a second time and I swear by the process.

To avoid this, giving students a page border to its final draft to write on the border, the final version to another level and gives students a reasonTo clarify that you can understand.

The final version is shown with colored decorative borders, are glued to the color map of something larger is ideal for classrooms.

Write a letter to 3)

Select a page that seem to limit the production of paper.

If you have the time and resources can students use watercolors to add color to the entire page before writing. Scratching a brush loaded with the thumb, creating an impressive prints.

FromYou could simply print the border on slightly tinted paper.

To add a further level, activity, it is possible that your students their own matching envelopes.

They could also make two "pictures" on the cardboard squares in the envelope Pop.