”My many colored days” read by a student volunteer for read across America. Every 5th grade will read this book today.
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This lesson I did with 4th grade was an AI project. We reviewed the classroom science standard about planets closest to the sun, the sun being a star, and how size and distance vary of planets. We then talked about perspective in art and how perspective is how we see things in relation to distance. We discussed how even though the sun is further away than Mercury and Venus we see it better because it is just that much bigger than those planets. We then drew the Earth is perspective to the sun with Mercury and Venus in between. We drew them on left over laminate and painted them with tempera cakes. Then we discussed Neutral tones (brown, tan, beige, black, white, and grey). We used black and white to create our grey. Finally we taped our drawing/painting of the planets to our neutral tone background and VOILA! Arts Integration is a great way to teach my art standards by reinforcing classroom standards of learning. The perfect match!
This is my first time teaching this lesson. I wanted my students to ease into drawing so we looked at some Optical Illusion art. The kids LOVED the work of Vasarely. We talked about how repeated pattern, color, and line created a sense of movement and/or 3-D in the work. Then we set about investigating how to use a ruler with accuracy to create our grid. It was fantastic seeing the students’ amazement when their lines created the Op art. We then used complementary colors to color them. Great work!
This is a new project for me and was inspired by a fellow art teacher whom I love dearly, Maureen Armstrong at Mountain View Elementary school. What we did was look at different cultures and discuss the origins of language and communication. We talked about how symbols only hold meaning when placed in context of the culture they belong to. Then we viewed a few examples and talked about them. Then students went back to their tables and read through several different cultures that I was able to find symbols of and selected two cultures and symbols that spoke to them. Students drew these symbols on a small square then learned how to use tracing paper to make a transfer to a much larger square so that the resulting image is symmetrical. Then I taped the traced drawing to copper, students chose either the copper or the silver side, and students used wooden and plastic dowels to create the impression on the copper. This process of creating a raised relief on metal is called Repousse. The final step is to paint india ink over the entire surface then we polish it off so it only falls in the lines, this is called a Patina (brownish sheen polished on metal). The final step is for students to write their artist statement. I loved this project! It was fun for the kids to read about different cultures and I haven't had a single student feel lost or as though they cannot do this. Every student so far has loved their end result and it has created lots of smiles! I do this project every year with Kindergarten, it is one of my favorites! It covers so much! First we read the book "The very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle. We talk about the elements of the story and identify characters and setting. Then we discuss colors and the primary colors. Students learn that the primary colors make all other colors of the rainbow. Students get the primary colors and a sheet with a sun, leaves, flower, tree branch, and tree trunk on it. Students learn to mix their primary colors to paint the sun orange, leaves green, and flower purple. Then we talk about how the tree trunk and branch need to be brown. But WAIT! We don't have brown! We mix all the primary colors up to create brown. The kids LOVE LOVE LOVE this part. There are many ooooos and awwwwws. After we paint, we cut everything out and glue it down to blue paper. Then we talk about printmaking and use our fingers and green and red to create our caterpillar. The final step of this project is to give our caterpillar legs and a face. The kids all really love this project and I really look forward to it each year. |
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