Student Teaching - Pre-Game, Day 3

Today we went over to Savage Elementary to start setting up the room for the first week of school.  I wasn't surprised when I discovered that my co-operating teacher is just like all of the other art teachers I have met over the years, a hoarder of supplies that have the potential to be useful at a later date. Today I focused on taking the protective plexiglass covers off of the tables so I could put a new cut paper design under each of them and clean them for the new year.  This project took up pretty much the entire day.  I created a cut paper stencil design that matched the work of the artist in the color of each of the tables.  This would allow over the course of the year for the students to learn through repeated viewings what each artist's work looked like.  I must say I am quite proud of these stencils and I hope to document them before I leave.  Also at this time I was not officially registered as a student teacher but was awaiting the official announcement that my paperwork had been approved.