Showing posts with label Fifth Grade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fifth Grade. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Wayne Thiebaud: Collaborative Projects
The students typically work on collaborative projects each Friday once their individual projects are completed. During our study of Wayne Thiebaud, the students created large scale drawings, paintings, and collages of cupcakes and cakes. Some of the cakes were painted with water colors. Some of the collages were made with torn and cut pieces of paper. Other collages were created with magazine pictures in a color blocking style. These were displayed in our cafeteria on three new display panels our school was able to purchase this year. We use the panels as backgrounds for music programs and to display art throughout the year.
Wayne Thiebaud: Fifth Grade Donuts
During a study over artist Wayne Thiebaud, fifth grade drew and cut out their own template of a donut. They then used their template to draw repeating and overlapping donuts to fill an entire picture plane. They added various details to their donuts. Their work was displayed in the hallways at Open House.
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2014/2015,
Art,
Art Show,
Artist Study,
Artists,
Donuts,
Fifth Grade,
Open House,
Overlapping,
Repetition,
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud: Fifth Grade Three Tier Cakes
Fifth graders learned how to draw their tier cakes as a part of an artist study over Wayne Thiebaud. After drawing their cakes with white colored pencils on black paper, they colored them white with oil pastels. They then chose to colors to add shadows on the sides of the cake. These cakes were displayed outside the art room for Open House.
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Artist Study,
Artists,
Cakes,
Fifth Grade,
Oil Pastels,
Open House,
Wayne Thiebaud
Spirit of Service
Our district recently had their annual "Spirit of Service" Art Show and Contest honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Here are the three entries from my campus. One student drew a silhouette of herself with symbols of a service job, a nurse. Another drew a still life of vegetable cans to symbolize donating to a food drive. Another drew a picture of himself now with a reflection of him in the future performing a service job. I loved them!
Dale Chihuly: 3D to 2D
I challenged some of my fifth graders to create a 2D representation of some of Dale Chihuly's 3D glass work. They used liquid water colors and fabric paints for their artwork. Their pieces were hung up as a collection at our district's Education Center for a few months.
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2014/2015,
2D,
3D,
Art,
Art Show,
Artist,
Artist Study,
Dale Chihuly,
Education Center,
Fabric Paint,
Fifth Grade,
Liquid Water Colors,
Mixed Media,
Texture
Dale Chihuly Sculptures
While looking at some pictures of Dale Chihuly's glass sculptures, I got an idea on how to make some simple sculptures with my third, fourth, and fifth graders using recycled materials common household materials. The students worked together to wrap the cardboard tubes from lamination rolls and covered them in foil. They twisted the ends of the foil at one end to make a point. They then spread out sheets of tissue paper on the tables and sprayed them with Elmer's Spray Adhesive. They then rolled the foil covered tubes on them to create the color. The bases are just small pieces of scrap wood with dowel rods nailed/glued on. Our PE Coach helped me make the bases during our conference period one day. Yay for great teammates! This was super easy but cool. We still have them displayed in the back hallway where you can see them from the inside or outside.
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2014/2015,
3D,
Art,
Artist,
Artist Study,
Dale Chihuly,
Fifth Grade,
Fourth Grade,
Glass,
Sculptures,
Third Grade
Friday, April 24, 2015
Dale Chihuly: Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grades
As a part of our school wide artist study over Dale Chihuly, the third through fifth graders explored how heat can change an object. I try to incorporate as many general education connections into art as possible. To recreate a kid friendly, safe version of Chihuly's glass art, the students used permanent markers to design a clear plastic cup. After the students were done designing, we went to the Kindergarten kitchen to experiment. The cups were placed on parchment paper on top of cookie sheets and placed in the oven at 350 degrees. The students took turns watching the changes in the cups. Once they were cooled, the students were able to take their "glass" sculptures home.
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2014/2015,
3D,
Art,
Artist,
Artist Study,
Dale Chihuly,
Fifth Grade,
Form,
Fourth Grade,
Glass,
Sculpture,
Third Grade
Grand Prairie ISD Experience
Our district is an open choice district where families and students can apply for a school of their choice. To showcase different options within our district, they hold Grand Prairie ISD Experience each year. As a part of the experience, each school was able to show one piece of student artwork. Below is work that one of my fifth graders created. He drew the landscape and painted it with colors he mixed himself. He added baking soda to the white tempera paint to add texture and a more realistic look to the snow scene.
Noun Neighborhhood
This is a lesson I always did when I taught first grade. Now that I'm in art, I extended it to a collaborative project for Kinder through Third Grade. Each student drew their favorite restaurant, their favorite store, and their home. They created roads, grass, trees, clouds, and various vehicles. After all classes had a chance to do this, they worked over the next few weeks to create a giant collage mural out of them. Once completed, their art project covered almost half of our back hallway which is pretty long. As they worked, we talked about what nouns were and how each thing they were creating was a noun. We talked about the role of different parts of a community to tie in Social Studies.
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2014/2015,
Art,
Collaborative Art,
Collage,
Fifth Grade,
First Grade,
Fourth Grade,
Kindergarten,
Mural,
Nouns,
Reading,
Second Grade,
Third Grade,
Writing
Empty Bowls Project
In December, my fourth and fifth graders made various small bowls made out of air-dry clay to sell for our district's Empty Bowls Project. The money raised from the sale of the bowls goes to a local charity that services our community's families. We sold the bowls on our campus and raised a few hundred dollars for the cause. Hopefully next year, we do even more! (Sorry, I don't have any pictures of the finished projects.)
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Clay,
Empty Bowls Project,
Fifth Grade,
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade Birch Trees
To experiment with color mixing and tape resist, the fifth grade students created birch trees. They first added three strips of painters tape to white construction paper. They then started with blue tempera paint and painted the middle section of the paper horizontally. They then added white to create a tint for the lower third of the paper. They added black to the blue tempera paint to create a darker shade for the top third. They then pulled off the tape to reveal the white. They added small details in blue to the birch trees to show texture.
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Birch Trees,
Christmas,
Color Mixing,
Fifth Grade,
Holidays,
Shades,
Tape Resist,
Tints,
Winter
Friday, November 21, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving from Moseley Elementary! Each student from Pre-Kindergarten through Fifth Grade designed a turkey feather using only lines and/or patterns. Their feathers were then assembled as grade level collaborative turkeys. I love how unique each feather is and yet they complement each other.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Fifth Grade Fall Mosaics
Fifth Grade created fall mosaics with painted paper. In the first step, they water colored fall colors in organic shapes on construction paper. In the next step, they cut the paper into strips and cut those strips into angled pieces. As they worked, we discussed the process of creating mosaics out of tiles and the grouting process. The students chose a fall shape template, traced it, and cut it out. They then used their painted paper pieces to create a mosaic pattern. They glued the pieces all over their fall shape leaving only small amounts of white showing. After completing their mosaic, they glued their shape to a black background. We discussed white and black as neutrals to allow the colors to pop.
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Colors,
Fall,
Fifth Grade,
Mosaic,
Neutral Colors,
Painted Paper,
Painting
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Fourth and Fifth Grade Murals
On Fridays, we have "Collaborative Art Fridays." Monday through Thursday, I teach the main focus lesson and the students create artwork individually. Each group will visit art on average about one Friday per month according to our rotation schedule. So, on these days, the students work on a collaborative project that incorporates the art elements we have been working on during that month. For this lesson, the students crumpled pieces of white bulletin board paper into a ball. They then worked to trace all of the wrinkles, or lines, with black Sharpie Markers. They then painted in the organic shapes created by the lines with Tempera Paint. I love how these turned out!
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Collaborative Art,
Fifth Grade,
Fourth Grade,
Lines,
Mural,
Organic Shapes,
Painting,
Tempera Paint
Warm and Cool Waves: Fifth Grade
Fifth Grade demonstrated their knowledge of warm and cool colors by creating wave patterns. They first used a ruler to create a grid. They then drew waves on top of the grid. As they did this, we reviewed the differences between geometric and organic shapes. The students traced their lines in black marker. They then colored the grid in a warm color pattern. They then colored the waves in a cool color pattern.
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Colors,
Cool Colors,
Fifth Grade,
Geometric Shapes,
Organic Shapes,
Shapes,
Warm Colors,
Waves
Beauty Is In The Eye of the Beholder: Fifth Grade
In Fifth Grade we talked about the importance of art critiques but that ultimately, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We discussed what this saying meant. The students then drew the outline of an eye and then traced bowls to create pupils. They then divided the pupil into six parts. They traced all of their drawing with a black Cray-pas. They then colored in the pupil to look like a basic color wheel with the Cray-pas. They then drew details like eye lashes and eyebrows.
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Art Critique,
Beauty,
Color Wheels,
Cray-pas,
Eye,
Fifth Grade,
Quote
Lines That Move: Fifth Grade
Fifth Grade created moving lines using just paper, markers, scissors, and glue. They first drew curved lines in complementary color patterns from two opposite corners. Then, on the back side, they used rulers to measure equal strips of straight lines. They cut the lines apart and then arranged them on black construction paper in a wave. To create the wave, they fanned out the first half of the strips going in one direction and the second half of the strips fanned out in the opposite direction.
Labels:
2014/2015,
Art,
Complementary Colors,
Fifth Grade,
Lines,
Markers,
Movement
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