u/IncognitoResearch111

What are the main types of art you teach throughout the year in elementary?

For instance, I teach PreK - Grade 6 art, and my main units I try to do for each grade are listed below. It may start with something really simple in that media for PreK, to something much more advanced in that type of art for 6th Grade. I incorporate art history lessons throughout, so they are not a separate unit for me.

This is what I do:

Drawing

Painting

Clay/Ceramics

Sculpture (mostly with aluminum foil, coated wire, and/or cardboard saws)

Fiber Arts (Sewing, Weaving, Knitting, Jewelry, etc.)

Print-making (starts with simple stamping for littles, older ones make styrofoam prints)

Collage and Mixed Media

Does that sound like the main types of art a basic elementary art education program should have? Am I missing anything? (I am NOT doing anything digital, that is already pushed too heavily in the rest of my school's curriculum, this is the one special a week they can be hands on).

EDIT: Yes, I know I spelled sculpture wrong in the title!!

Hello! Does this look like a good training plan for someone who already runs a few times a week 2-4 miles slowly, but easily (along with some lifting, biking, and swimming), to start training for a 17 mile "25K" in 13 weeks?

Since the actual race is actually more like 17.25 miles instead of an actual 25K distance, I was thinking of adding an extra mile to each of the long runs (to account for the race being about 2 mile longer than a 25K). Does that sound like a good plan?

Since I only have 13 weeks, not 14 weeks to train, I was planning to do the first week's worth of runs on some of the cross training days of other weeks in order to still do the same amount of runs, but condensed into 13 weeks (and still maintaining all my rest days). Does that make sense?

I'm assuming I should try to make as many of my runs hilly and on trail, not road, as I can to mimic the actual race course?

My background is that I used to be a mediocre college cross country runner, but have been mostly out of shape the last 10 years, broken up by the occasional spurt of activity sporadically (a random 5K off the couch here or there, training for a half marathon one year, training for a 15 mile trail race one year - both of which I completed slowly, but decently, running the entire time).

Does this look like a good training plan? I got it form this website: https://runninforsweets.com/25k-training-plan/

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I noticed that all the hip young women at my work are all wearing midi dresses this spring, no more knee-length dresses anywhere, and hardly a maxi. Same thing at a fancy cocktail attire wedding I went to - all the hip young "hot" girls were wearing midi length slinky slip dresses with a slit, whereas in the past at such an event I'd have seen more mini dresses.

And of course for casual wear - wide leg pants or jeans with a boxy white tee or something with some minimal sneakers. A tiered flowy white cotton skirt for casual/dressy.

Those seem to be the "uniforms" I'm seeing all the people in my life at work, among friends, family, on the street, etc., who are the type of people who always look put together and fashionable.

It's weird that I haven't seen midi length very highlighted in any 2026 spring/summer content I've been looking for. I'm so sick of videos and articles and stuff that just look like they are rehashing fashion shows. I like content that feels like a cool older sister is showing you her actual closet. I like Anna Reid the best for this - she tries the stuff on how she would actually wear it out in the world, shows a bunch of street style pics in the real world, shows of a bunch of outfits relatively quickly, but the Youtube videos are long enough to enjoy, etc. I wish I could find more content like hers.

What are you seeing the "cool girls" in your life or on the street wearing for spring?