New School Year 2015-2016

I am getting so excited about the new school year! The last week of school before summer break, each student made a small drawings of themselves. Every student in the school also made a speech bubble with their favorite thing about OCPS. All if the art is on display in the hall to welcome everyone back to school. 

Still Life Collage

This has been one of the most fun projects I have ever done with kindergartners. This project is more developmentally appropriate during the second semester of the kindergarten year. There are a lot of steps but the students really learned about overlapping shapes, still life, and patterns. The first step was to learn about still life paintings. we viewed many works of art from famous painters and discussed what makes a still life. Next, the students drew pictures of the still life that was sitting on their table. With this step I was really able to see what developmental art stage each child was in.

Before we began drawing we had to discuss that you could only draw what you could see. If something was hidden on the other side of the basket it could not be drawn. 

Once the students finished drawing the still life they had to choose 5 items that they could see in the still life. Each of these items was going to be drawn on a separate piece of paper. they were given as assortment of paper sizes and they had to choose the one that best fit the object they were going to draw. Often students do not fill the space on paper so they would draw the object once and then show it to me. If they object was large enough they could outline in sharpie. a drawing that was not big enough they could draw it again bigger on the back. Erasing takes too long and is hard for little artist. Once the objects were big enough and outlined with sharpie they could color them in with plastipastels and paint to create a wax resist.

One of the hardest things about this project was cutting out the objects. At this age students have trouble recognizing groups of shapes as one whole object when they are cutting. If they needed help cutting they could draw a line around the outer edge of the object and then cut on that line. 

Next we created a basket and a table cloth using patterns and then glued everything together while we looked at the still life. Everyone was so proud of their  amazing art!

Second grade maracas

Art Club Little Houses

Art club created tiny houses out of clay.  After they come out of the kiln the students will paint the houses to show all of their tiny details.

Geometric and Organic Robots

The first grade has been learning about geometric and organic shapes.  They have been creating robots composed of shapes.  

They began by drawing two robots with organic and geometric shapes.

Next they deconstructed their drawing and drew each shape of their robot on a separate piece of paper.

Last they colored, cut, and glued their shapes together to create the robot.  

Kate Zoetrope

The second grade has been working with an early form of animation called a Zoetrope.

Zoetrope

Zortrope

The second grade has been making zoetrope animations.
Click on this link to see zoetrope of a bunny jumping


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwirimZbanWHTkdmZ2xhTldnRTQ/edit?usp=sharing