Home Town Map-3rd Grade

As artists we constantly observe, or look closely at the world around us. 
In this lesson you can create a map of the route take from home to school. As you create a map, you will learn about distance, signs, symbols, landmarks and other details that make up your daily journey. 

On the back of your paper, make a list of the things you see on the way to school, beginning with your home.  Ex: homes, farm, stop signs post office, stores, gas station, park, homes, school.

Begin sketching the placement of the streets, buildings, and landmarks on your map in pencil. Be sure to label the streets and names of buildings, parks and businesses. Also include signs on your map. You may choose to include a Map Key.

This project can be done in drawing, painting (day2) collage or sculpture.      

  

Art Around Us - 2nd Grade

Where can you see art at?

Museums, restaurants, homes, street fair, graffiti

Why do people display art?

To decorate or make things beautiful.

To share with others things or ideas that are important to us. (What we like)

To start a conversation

To keep a memory.  To remind us of a person, place or thing.

Why are we having an art show?

People are coming together 

A chance to see neighbors and friends

To be entertained

Art gives us something to look at and talk about.  Art is a conversation starter.

Figures

Use one pipe cleaner bent for head and legs, twist at the body

use 1/2 pipe cleaner for the arms.

Cut straws to create the figure to make it have elbows, knees etc. 

Decorate with tape and Paper and use a small piece of clay for the base

I tried something new today!

One of the artist habits we learned about last week was...

Stretch and Explore

Try to challenge yourself today!

Once you have an idea, think of how you can change it in one way.



Drawing Studio

Instead of using paper, can you draw on cardboard using oil pastels?

Painting
I have noticed we love to paint colors!  Strips, dots, shapes of colors!  Before doing your next color painting, cut a shape out of cardboard, an animal, a star, an organic shape.  Paint it with tempera paint, make sure you mix some original colors too.

Sculpture
We usually make 3-D sculptures using cardboard.  What if you made a relief sculpture instead?  

 Start with a base and build your image using stacks of cardboard.

Collage
Usually we use construction paper.  

What if we thoughtfully used embellishments to create a picture?

I can notice details in Nature and Man made materials - 2nd Grade

We can appreciate the world around us by noticing details and including them in our art!

Some of those details include be:
Textures
Colors
Shapes

Notice the interesting use of color in this picture. 

Describe how the artist used color to make her picture beautiful and interesting.

This artist used organic shapes in his art. Notice how he imagined the scaly texture of his dragon, and recalled textures from nature such as wood, stone, and leaves. 

No Texture 

What textures could this artist add?

Texture! 

Name 3 textures this artist used, and how she created them.

I Am an Artist - Third Grade

What do artists do?

In this art room and we use 8 Studio Habits 

that all artists, young and old, practice.

At the end of class we will fill out 

an exit ticket and check off all the

studio habits we practiced today.

Making Valentines 

in the Collage Studio

Negative space-The space around the shape