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In 1st grade, we read the book Tacky the Penguin and had a discussion on the importance of being original and different. The students discussed their own traits or interests that make them different and thought of how they could depict these qualities in their penguin drawing. Students, then learned about artist have drawn portraits in profile and the history of a profile view in art. With all this knowledge students drew a penguin in profile add their own unique details.
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In conjunction with the second grade immigration unit, students learned about the Statue of Liberty. I introduced the designer, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and engineer/architect Gustave Eiffel. We talked about symbolism and how the Statue of Liberty symbolized freedom to Ellis Island immigrants. We played a game where students had to guess a book by it's symbol, try to guess the examples below! Students then filled out a worksheet to help them come up with an object and book that they felt symbolized them. Finally, they drew themselves with their symbols as the Statue of Liberty and created a cityscape background using printmaking techniques. To see more student examples CLICK HERE As inspiration for this project third graders learned about constellations, the Chinese Zodiac, astrology, and patronuses from Harry Potter. Students discovered what animal and star sign their birthdays are associated with and took a quiz to find out what animal best represents their personality. With all this knowledge students created or chose an animal to draw for their constellation. Students began by creating a background using a tint or shade of blue and a splatter technique to create stars. Next, students learned how to create a gradient scale and drew and shaded their constellation imagery. Finally, the students named their constellation, which you can see as the title of their piece on Artsonia as soon as the work is posted! To see more student work CLICK HERE! 2nd graders began by reading the book A Perfect Day. The illustrations in this beautiful book were created by collaging together a variety of recycled paper. Using their knowledge of symmetry students traced and cut pieces of scrap paper. They collaged their pieces together with other recycled items to create their own snow angel. Finally, using tints and shades they created a snow background. Click here to see some pages from the book we read Click here to see more student work 3rd-grade students learned about the rules of atmospheric and one point perspective. We looked at examples from TV, movies, video games, and art. Then students chose a theme for their project and conducted research on that theme for their house designs. They then used the rules of atmospheric perspective to add details leading up to their house. Finally, students used the Superimpose app to add a person that fits with their theme walking up to their house. CLICK HERE to see more student work One-point Perspective examples:1st-grade students learned about the artist Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who creates site-specific sculptures and land art placed in natural settings using only objects from nature. Then students drew themselves from behind reaching out for leaves and created their own leaves on the iPads. Finally, the students combined their drawings and a photo they took of a fall tree to create this animation. CLICK HERE to see the students animations. 5th graders learned about Surrealism, Surrealism vocabulary as well as past and present Surrealist artists. We looked at one specific surreal drawing demonstrating juxtaposition as inspiration for this project. Each student then chose a food to juxtapose with another related object to create a "punny" surreal digital design. CLICK HERE to see more student work Fourth graders learned about the artist Takashi Murakami and his pop culture influenced artwork. Murakami created his own personal mascot Mr. Dob, which appears in many of his pieces. He has also worked with artists like Kanye and Pharell Williams to create their own mascots. Students used visuals associated with their interests and backgrounds to create their own personal mascots. To animate their characters they used the app Doink Animation. Kindergarten students learned about the artwork of Peter Anton and Wayne Thiebaud. Both artists are known for their dessert paintings and sculptures. To create the donut based students dipped pool noodle pieces in paint and printed them on a watercolor painted background. Finally using photos of donuts, students decorated their sweets using oil pastels. To see student artwork click here:
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