Magic Wands

Magic Wands

1st Grade 

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First graders began this investigation by looking closely at images of artifacts from around the world.  In small groups, students talked about what they saw and made inferences about what the object was, why it was made, and who made it.  Many students thought these items looked important or powerful, due to their shape, color, and adornment.  Students then combined natural and man-made materials to create their own powerful object- a magic wand!  They imagined spells and created spell books.  Finally, students illustrated magical pictures of their spells in action!

 If you had a magic wand, what would you do?

Kindergarten Robots

Students began this unit by investigating patterns and printmaking, and created a 
background by stamping found objects.  

We then looked at paintings by contemporary artist, Eric Joyner, and made up stories about the robots in his paintings.  After reading the book, Clink, students invented their own robots with special abilities.  When it came time to design our robots, we reused found objects again to stamp out robots.  Students completed this work by adding color with various drawing materials.

Painting by Eric Joyner

Printmaking is messy :)

Art in Motion

Art in Motion using Piskelapp

5th Grade 

5th graders used the website, piskelapp.com, to connect to wellness and make art in motion.  Students used the early technology of using pixels to create simple images.  

Scan the QR code below, or click the link to see their moving gifs!

http://imgur.com/a/oL8PD

Spooky Still Lifes

Spooky Still Lifes

4th grade

Yes, it is December 20th.  And yes these artworks were created in October.  Oops!  Allow yourself a moment to time travel to a warmer place as you take a peek at these spooky artworks!

4th graders began this unit by looking at still lifes from different time periods, from the 1600s to two years ago, comparing and contrasting their attributes. 

 They found that most of the artworks in this genre have some things in common, including a table or some sort of horizontal surface, objects, and overlapping.   They also had many differences, with artists using more imagination and abstraction today than in the 1600s.  Students then worked in table groups to build their own art supplies still lifes and practiced drawing from observation and using view finders. 

Students than began drawing from the spooky display, combining observation and imagination.  Students looked to the book, Creepy Carrots, for inspiration in using value (lights and darks) to create a mood.   

Check out their very unique and completed artworks below! 

"My art was inspired by the feeling of the day after Halloween.  What inspired me was the scared feeling of dark rooms and hallways.

"I like the value of the ghost and how if you rub the chalk it makes it look ghostly."