Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful summer, I know I did! Well we are already 3 weeks in and have managed to complete 2 projects! We are on a roll! The following picture is the result of a collaborative mural every student in the school contributed to. Every student used the element of line to create patterns then colored their petal their class color. I put all the petals together to create a flower! The students loved this project and were very excited to see the end result. Keep being creative!
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For this project I wanted to focus on three things.
1. I wanted students to learn to work collaboratively towards a common goal 2. I wanted students to learn what a sculpture was 3. I wanted students to learn that art is meant to be shared. Students were either assigned a partner or partnered with a friend. They were challenged to work together to create a sculpture of a tree. When completed they selected a CCSD employee in this school to give their tree to. I called them Cheering trees. They are meant to spread a little springtime cheer. Ask your student about them and they will share with you who they selected and what they learned. #kindnessmatters This is the continuation on the Wild things project I have done with 3rd grade. Students created their own very unique wild thing using their imaginations and oil pastels. We then sent all of them to McEachern for the Art Teacher's NAHS students to recreate as three dimensional works. Then the high school student and my 3rd grade student become pen pals. I just had a mom tell me that her daughter made such a lasting connection with the High School student that they now are email buddies and share their artwork with each other! I cannot believe how this has touched some of my students' hearts. I love this. The show was last week and I would have to say that I am always amazed at the dedication and talent of art students from every level. What a great turn out we had and I cannot wait to do this project again! Here are some photos, enjoy! This is one of my favorite projects to do, you can find the lesson here or download it here. It is a pretty big deal! All my third grade students discuss character traits and motivation when they are reading stories. This is a nice ELA integration. They then take notes on the physical characteristics of the wild things they see in the you tube video of Where the wild things are. We talk about how authors use lots of adjectives to describe the characters but artists draw lots of details instead of using words. When the students are finished taking notes. We look at the wild things and notice they are mash-ups of different animals. That is the student's project. They are to use their notes and imagination to create their own animal mash-ups. They sketch their ideas in their sketchbook then draw their final on a larger piece of paper. We used oil pastels to color and black acrylic paint to really make our wild things pop by adding a nice solid black outline. We then cut them out and glue to a colorful piece of construction paper. Last we fill out information about our wild things! Finally, when every third grade student is finished, all the drawings from the whole grade level are sent to McEachern High School to their art department. The art teacher there will pass them to her honors students to select one to turn into a 3-dimensional sculpture. Next they will be sent to Cooper Middle school to that art teacher. Her students will turn the very few that were selected into a comic strip. The final step is the all these students to write letters to each other. We then take all the artwork and letters and host a large reception and show where all the ES, MS, and HS students get to meet each other. I love this project, it demonstrates the true spirit of collaboration on a vertical scales as well as integrations with other subjects.
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