Current Events: Monthly Curriculum Update
For the end of the year, our students are bringing it all together!
5th grade has conquered the genres of portrait and landscape and are now tackling the world of still life. We categorize and analyze to make sure we can differentiate between abstract, realistic, stylized and even photo-realism styles of still life. Then, we build our own using less than conventional items. The arrangement is composed and drawn. Then, pattern is added for extra interest, oil pastel is used to focus on outlining and contour, and finally, watercolor paint is applied for a very cool resist technique and a unique expression of color. This project is a multi-step and multi-media undertaking and the results are impressive!
Fourth grade has entered the fibers and fabrics of art with weaving on a loom. First, we spend some time with the African Ashanti tribe and the Navajo Indian tribe to get in touch with our woven roots. Then, we build a loom, choose our colors with purpose and get into the community of weaving. Knot tying is a bonus skill as these works take shape!
Third grade have been hired! They are all officers running a graphic design company. First our students decide on jobs such as who will be the boss, book keeper, and the delivery manager. Of course, any company needs a public relations manager to do the speaking and they must agree on a name for the company. Then CEO Smith gives them a job. Maybe it is to design a CD cover for a hot new band, or a T-shirt for a very cool school. Some companies may be charged with creating a new cereal box, or book cover. The jobs abound and the companies consider lettering, graphics, target audience, and all the pertinent factors for a graphic designer. Companies vote on their designs, present them, and then the fun begins with creating the commercial!
Second grade is getting their feet wet in the area of weaving also with a pattern project using alternating patterns and strips of paper. Cool funky cut scissors do the trick with ruler skills and measuring a key step! Watch for these great weavings to come home soon.
First graders are busy being architects designing like the pros and building a model of a skyscraper. Our 3-D forms take life with architectural details and a few extras only an architect's imagination could pull off. Clock towers, rooftops with chimneys, awnings over windows, working doors, roller coasters, water slides, and haunted mansions are just some of our 1st graders skyscraper designs!
Kindergarten artists are passengers on Lake Whitney Airlines and the flight is headed straight for the Amazon Rainforest. A crash landing that is... complete with jungle cats, the noise of 1,000 insects, birds, waterfalls and monkeys. Our passengers create proof they were there in the form of a great wet chalk jungle. We finish washing up in the waterfall, drying our hands on a palm tree leaf just in time to catch a flight on the rescue plane back to school.
Any questions or comments can be directed to Mrs. Smith at 407-877-8888, x 284 .
5th grade has conquered the genres of portrait and landscape and are now tackling the world of still life. We categorize and analyze to make sure we can differentiate between abstract, realistic, stylized and even photo-realism styles of still life. Then, we build our own using less than conventional items. The arrangement is composed and drawn. Then, pattern is added for extra interest, oil pastel is used to focus on outlining and contour, and finally, watercolor paint is applied for a very cool resist technique and a unique expression of color. This project is a multi-step and multi-media undertaking and the results are impressive!
Fourth grade has entered the fibers and fabrics of art with weaving on a loom. First, we spend some time with the African Ashanti tribe and the Navajo Indian tribe to get in touch with our woven roots. Then, we build a loom, choose our colors with purpose and get into the community of weaving. Knot tying is a bonus skill as these works take shape!
Third grade have been hired! They are all officers running a graphic design company. First our students decide on jobs such as who will be the boss, book keeper, and the delivery manager. Of course, any company needs a public relations manager to do the speaking and they must agree on a name for the company. Then CEO Smith gives them a job. Maybe it is to design a CD cover for a hot new band, or a T-shirt for a very cool school. Some companies may be charged with creating a new cereal box, or book cover. The jobs abound and the companies consider lettering, graphics, target audience, and all the pertinent factors for a graphic designer. Companies vote on their designs, present them, and then the fun begins with creating the commercial!
Second grade is getting their feet wet in the area of weaving also with a pattern project using alternating patterns and strips of paper. Cool funky cut scissors do the trick with ruler skills and measuring a key step! Watch for these great weavings to come home soon.
First graders are busy being architects designing like the pros and building a model of a skyscraper. Our 3-D forms take life with architectural details and a few extras only an architect's imagination could pull off. Clock towers, rooftops with chimneys, awnings over windows, working doors, roller coasters, water slides, and haunted mansions are just some of our 1st graders skyscraper designs!
Kindergarten artists are passengers on Lake Whitney Airlines and the flight is headed straight for the Amazon Rainforest. A crash landing that is... complete with jungle cats, the noise of 1,000 insects, birds, waterfalls and monkeys. Our passengers create proof they were there in the form of a great wet chalk jungle. We finish washing up in the waterfall, drying our hands on a palm tree leaf just in time to catch a flight on the rescue plane back to school.
Any questions or comments can be directed to Mrs. Smith at 407-877-8888, x 284 .
