5th grade talked about what a composition in art is. We compared it to compositions in music and in writing. A composition has a main idea, supporting detail, and it flows together nicely combining all the necessary elements. Students were told their composition needed to feature a pumpkin as their main idea, the rest of the details were up to them to create from their imagination, and the pumpkin itself needed to be collaged and contain highlights on the raised part of the pumpkin. Check out the pictures below! These are coming together better than I ever expected! Such creativity!
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check out what 5th grade is working on! We looked at the process of batik and learned how to use everyday items (tooothpaste and lotion!) to create our own batik. Then we mastered our tints and shades and painted in a monochromatic color scheme. We just rinsed then out and will be pinning them up for the backdrop for the 3rd grade performance in December! We will be seeing as a last step and turning them into pillows. Wheh!! This project covers it all! 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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Mrs. ThompsonWelcome to the Big Shanty Intermediate art room! I hope you enjoy seeing what we are doing! Archives
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