Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Transformations 3rd Grade

Transformations happen all around us. 

Sometimes we even transform!

It is our job as artists to notice the transformations and record them through our art making.


Think of a tree. A tree goes through many transformations in one year. How can you show those changes in an artwork?




What if YOU transformed yourself into a superhero?
What would your name be? Would you have any superpowers?





What about a transformation we experience every 24 hours? The changes from night time to day time!


Can you think of anymore transformations that happen in the world around us?
How could you show the changes in an artwork?




Thursday, October 13, 2022

Choice Art/Let's Talk About the Hall

What is an Art Show?


What is an art show? 

What things do artists do to get ready for an art show?

They make art, select which artwork to show, find a location, they promote their show (tell people about it) and they talk about their art.

 

 

Curating is the act of selecting, organizing, and presenting objects for display.

 

  • Select a piece of art that you have worked on 2 or more art classes.

 

  • You work should be a piece that you are proud of creating.

 

  • Your art should be complete and be your personal best work. 

 

We will organize our work by class, with each student having a special place to display their work (by their name).

We will prepare it for display in a later lesson on framing and our artist statement. 








Choice Art Introduction


 

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

1st Grade - Collage Portraits Day 2

 

Collage Day 2
Embellishments!

Create

3. Refine and complete artistic work.

A. Reflect-Refine-Continue

Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

























Sunday, August 21, 2022

Intro to Art Class - First and Second Grade

First and Second Grade Intro. Lesson:

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials




Welcome to art class! We are going to have an exciting year together in art, full of discovery and art making. We will draw, collage, paint sculpt and stitch and sew. We are going to continue to learn what it means to be an artist and how to work

like an artist.


Each year we go over our class expectations. 

  1. Take care of people

2. Take care of stuff

     3. Behave like an artist 


How do we take care of people in the art room?

 Share the colored pencils with your table mates. If someone is using a color you need say: "may I please use the blue pencil when you are

finished?" Then wait patiently.


How do we take care of stuff in the art room?

For example, when we are done with a marker, we should place the cap back on till it snaps, so that the marker doesn't dry out.


How do we behave like an artist?


One way that I show I am an artist is I think about what I'm going to make before I begin.




 I always start with an idea even though it may change along the way.



Today we are going to get our Studio Practice Books. We use our studio practice books to learn skills and classroom routines

for choice art.


Pass out books/ Name and class code.

Supplies Needed:

Studio Practice books

Pencil and Eraser

Crayons


You will create a piece of art using drawing supplies. You can draw whatever you decide.


Open your book to the page at the beginning of the book that says: "Draw a picture."

Think about what you want to draw. Close your eyes and try to picture what you want it to look like. When you are ready, you may begin. Take your time drawing in pencil. Draw large enough so you fill the page and you can color it in. 

Let's begin our art, and before we leave we will talk about some of the

ways we behaved like an artist. 



Clean-up expectations:

I will always play the clean-up anthem at clean-up time.

Clean-up is silent.

Everyone should finish cleaning up their studio space before the end of the song.

Today, during clean-up, you will be responsible for putting your supplies in the bin neatly, and putting your book in the box on the supply table.


Reflection:

After the drawings are completed, discuss the ways they behaved like an artist during class:

Include thinking of an idea, working quietly, sharing and taking care of supplies.


Remind students to raise their hands and wait to be called on.


In school, we are respectful by raising our hands when we have something to share.

Thank individual students for being respectful and raising their hands.


If extra time, especially in first grade: 



Line Up Time.

Practice line-up expectations:

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward



VA: Cr, Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work