It may seem early, but it's time to start brainstorming a few ideas for the 5th grade gift to CSES! I'm planning to facilitate a collaborative hanging mosaic piece that somehow represents the 5th graders' experience as CSES dolphins. Before I can order supplies and plan the project, I need your students' creative minds! My plan is to collect sketches from any 5th graders who want to contribute their ideas, and combine elements from these sketches into one big drawing. The students will work on attaching glass and tile pieces to the mosaic during art classes in Spring, and I will grout the final piece so it's ready to display. Any student who wishes to contribute may make a sketch at home and bring it to me when they come to art class any day before February 13. I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone's ideas!
Although sleeping in was nice, I was very happy to get back to school last Monday. We've got art to make!
Kindergarten discussed their various New Year traditions and compared them with those of China. Ask your Kindergartner about the Chinese New Year and the dragon parade, and see if they remember which color the Chinese use to decorate for good luck. As for their project, they are drawing, cutting, and folding to make paper dragons! Stay tuned for more. First Grade is continuing their Faith Ringgold story quilts. Want to know more about this amazing fiber artist? Check her out at http://www.faithringgold.com/. During the next few weeks, the art room will become a weaving party as we create paper looms and practice that "over-under" technique. Second Grade is wrapping up their Folk Art landscape paintings, and they are fabulous! They've hidden their pencil lines with oil pastel, and are now using liquid watercolors to add even more imagination to their compositions. No two of these look alike- which is what we aim for in the art room. I've been very impressed by these second graders' ingenuity for these paintings! Third Grade is wrapping up their personal Mandala project, and they've done a great job incorporating both radial symmetry and personal symbols. Ask your third grader what all of that means, and check out http://www.mandalaproject.org/ if you'd like to see different mandalas from around the world from both students and artists. If you'd like, you can even submit your own! Fourth Grade has been working on animal portraits, which they drew from photos and are now painting in a monochromatic color scheme in the style of the late painter George Roderigue. The kids are in the process of using one color, plus black and white to make shades and tints to paint their animal. They're already pros at color-mixing, since we practiced by making value scales before break. I can't wait to see these completed paintings, and I know they can't either! Fifth Grade has been learning all about atmospheric perspective, and ways to visually "trick" people who look at their artwork into thinking they are looking at a three-dimensional landscape (or cityscape, or castle, or beach, or.....). This week, the students created drawings in layers, and next week, they will use their paint-mixing skills to create monochromatic paintings that show space. Fifth grade also created value scales before break, so they will be ready to go next week! Some of them really thought outside the box for the drawing and came up with very unique ideas. I can't wait to see these finished projects! Cheers to 2015! |
Ms. WrightJMU Class of '13 Archives
June 2015
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