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All students in grades three through five worked on the Kid's Care Georgian project. Students viewed work by Georgian artists and created in the style and subject matter. Students are becoming more aware of the connections art has with music, science, math, language arts and other academic areas.
Kindergarten and K/1 1st and 2nd Grades 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade
KINDERGARTEN AND K-1
Students have studied Henri Matisse and cut out colored paper simple and irregular shapes to create an abstract design. They studied Paul Klee and created fish shapes with various patterns and color using watercolor-crayon resist. They studied Alexander Calder and created an abstract paper sculpture using colored paper strips, They were able to identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and positive and negative spaces. They studied Claude Monet and created an impressionist painting of water lilies. They worked with short brush strokes and color mixing with the primary colors.
FIRST GRADE
Having selected a piece of colored paper that was scrap that formed an interesting shape, students were asked to glue it down and then add to it with drawing and color to help identify what the shape could become. Students studied work of the Lascaux cave paintings in France. After viewing the animal shapes students worked on large brown paper to create animal murals. Students are studying Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Mary Cassatt as part of women's history month. Students are creating works using subjects and medium (paints and pastels) related to the artists; flowers, family - mother and child and a self-portrait of Frida.
SECOND GRADE
Having studied contrasts of light and dark colors and how they relate to one another and studying various weavings, students created their own paper weavings. Students cut irregular shapes from a single piece of paper-using all pieces. They glued them down leaving a space in between the shapes forming an abstract design. Viewing Folk Art students created stencils and used the stencils in such a way that it incorporated mixed colors and overlapping. Students studied a Mosaic dated back to 526-47 A.D. and created their own paper mosaics. The mosaic they studied was from Italy.
THIRD GRADE
Students created a watercolor sunset using the wet in wet technique. Students created life size silhouettes of themselves using black paper. Their focus was to create an interesting pose. They were traced and then had to cut them out. As part of an integrated space unit with the classroom, students viewed colored visuals of the planets in the solar system and selected a planet and focused on the color, the color patterns, the surface detail and used pastels to blend in colors to create soft edges. Students studied weavings and the specific shapes in the weavings of the southwestern people. Students have warped their cardboard loom and have started to weave their weft.
FOURTH GRADE
Students worked on contour line drawing, after viewing the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Students were our models. We studied the work of Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci as we worked with different techniques of shading. We studied the weavings of the Navaho people and focused on the shapes and patterns that were evident in their work. Students used burlap and pulled out a number of strands that were later used to tied together some of the open areas in the weaving. We added yarn into the weaving and incorporated some stencil work using shapes that were evident in the work of the Navaho.
FIFTH GRADE
Students are working on warping their looms and some have proceeded to weave the weft. Some of the other terms that students are familiar with; shuttle, heddles, up shed and down shed. Only two classes at a time can weave on their inkle loom due to the number of looms and the storage space. The other classes are working on one point perspective and at the conclusion of their drawings color is added and they will work with atmospheric perspective. Students after viewing clay work by various artists, including myself, and watching a video on developing a hand build clay piece will design their own clay vessel. They will use the coil method of building. At the completion of building the pieces will be fired and later glazed.
