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5th Grade

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 Turkey Day art work done by K-1 & 4-5th grade.

Scarecrows

After discussing the season of harvest and watching a brief clip from the Wizard of Oz the 1st grade made these top notch scarecrows!

Ideas??

Hey, I am looking for some good ideas for some creative art projects for Thanksgiving. Please leave me some comments.

Check Us Out! We Have Shaken Off the Dust & Are Doing Some Heavy Duty Art! :)

 These masks were a fun project 4th graders did in the spirit of Halloween. I am not into ghost and the creepy things that come with Halloween, especially with kids, so they had to choose a category for their masks. 1. Animal 2. Super Hero 3. Funny Character 4. Real Person 5. Food

The students loved this project. They were very into it. It is very simple but allows there creative powers to work in full steam. Additionally, it gave me a good launching point to talk about the importance of masks in some cultures.

This seemingly abstract project done with Kindergarten actually was a lesson on shapes. Can you see the five shapes? Circle, square, rectangle, triangle, and oval? I had them color these shapes in with crayon so they could go nuts with the water color. This method is called wax resist. The wax in the crayon resist the paint!

The 3rd graders were learning common phrases about telling till like half-past, quarter till and after. I used this to launch this project. Clocks are some of the coolest, and oldest functional forms of art known to man!

 These self-portraits were done by 1st graders. We talked about the importance of including all facial features - eyes, nose, lips, ears, and by far the one that gets left out the most the eyebrows! Glitter and glue was used to decorate the background.

 

These self-portraits were done by the 2nd graders. If you can not tell they are looking at themselves through a hand-held mirror in their bedroom. A very creative idea - one that I stole from another art teacher. This was a simple project done to help the 1st graders review important types of lines.

 One thing our art program division wide stresses is visual literacy, which is being able to communicate effectively through art/images. It is so important the 3rd grade curriculum now forces teachers to do a graphic novel (telling a story with images) with all students in their regular classroom. I did these graphic novels with the students to warm them up for their assignment with their homeroom teachers. The top one is the story about Ping (one of my favorites), and the bottom one is the story about the goose who saved summer. 

This was a 5th grade project to teach contrast. We did this right around the start of fall - a great source of inspiration! It is a little hard to see but those are leaves at the end of the branches. 

Welcome to the 2011/12 School Year!!

So here is a small taste of what is going on this school year so far. A lot of these projects focus on names because it is a good way for me to get to know the names of my students and to get to know them. Some projects not shown here are 2nd grade's study on 3d shapes. Ask your student if they can name 6 3d shapes I bet they will say yes. We watched this awesome video >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PiRhCwzg5E and sang along. We also made 3d shapes with clay and learned how to draw them. I hope you enjoy these projects!


3rd grade - they had to turn each letter into a "creature"


K-1st grade - colorful name designs using glitter and ripped pieces of construction paper

K- self portraits after a study on the proportions of the human body

5th grade - We discussed properties of a shadow and created a project based on this

1st grade - this project was done in a response to a study of night and day in nature

4th grade - a name project that focuses on line, color, and form

3-4th grade - these leaf creatures done in response to the fall season