This lesson I do every year to celebrate black history month and it makes a fantastic arts integration project. We discuss the art of Faith Ringgold then create our very own story quilts. We learn how to make a pattern around our border then discuss the qualities of a good story. We talk about how great stories have lots and lots of details and supporting information. We discuss how artists don't write down their details, instead, we draw our details. Using lots of details in your drawings not only makes them more interesting but also helps the viewer understand your art and what it means. Check out the work of these amazing artists! You can find the lesson here!
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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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