Fourth and Fifth Grade students created their own mobiles using hangers and pipe cleaners after learning about artist Alexander Calder. Their mobiles were hung up in the hallway as a large display for Open House and Big Art Day. In the last two pictures you can also see the collaborative paintings that the students worked on as they finished other projects.
Showing posts with label Fifth Grade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fifth Grade. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Fourth and Fifth Grade: "Spirit of Service"
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., our district has an annual "Spirit of Service" art contest. All fourth and fifth graders participated at the campus level. Three of our students participated at the district level. One fifth grader earned "Second Place" and another earned "Honorable Mention". The individual pictures below are the ones entered into the district contest. The collective pictures are the campus level entries.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
Students who finished work early worked at the collaborative table to create large snowman collages using construction paper and sheet music to songs such as "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?", "Winter Wonderland", and more.
Labels:
2015/2016,
Art,
Collaborative Art,
Collage,
Fifth Grade,
First Grade,
Fourth Grade,
Kindergarten,
Music,
Second Grade,
Sheet Music,
Snowman,
Third Grade
Collaborative Joan Miro Inspired Mural
The students worked in small groups to create Miro inspired designs and then pieced them together to create a large display:
Fourth and Fifth Grade Owls
Labels:
2015/2016,
Art,
Drawing,
Fifth Grade,
Fourth Grade,
Oil Pastels,
Owls
Fifth Grade Pumpkins
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Hispanic Heritage Month
Three of our students have their work on display at The Grand Prairie Education Center as a part of a Hispanic Heritage Month.
Tree of Life by a First Grader:
Frida Kahlo by a Fifth Grader:
Tree of Life by a First Grader:
Aztec Sun by a Fourth Grader:
Frida Kahlo by a Fifth Grader:
Back the Blue
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Graders drew portraits of police officers on Back the Blue Day to show our support for our local police officers. The portraits were submitted to our school office who sent their work along with letters written in the general education classes to one of our local stations.
Fifth Grade Tie-Dye
Fifth Grade drew various intersecting wavy lines to divide the space of a piece of paper. In those spaces, they used oil pastels to create warm and cool color tie-dye patterns to practice blending techniques.
Labels:
2015/2016,
Art,
Color Wheel,
Colors,
Cool Colors,
Fifth Grade,
Lines,
Oil Pastels,
Tie-Dye,
Warm Colors
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Gelli Print Flowers
Here are some large scale flowers that my students made from Gelli Prints. I talked about Gelli Printing in my previous post. My kids absolutely love making Gelli Prints and I think these turned out awesome. The students worked in stations to trace and cut out circles and petal shapes. They then glued them together. I hung up their flowers in the back hallway of our school by the art room.
Gelli Prints
I took a professional development class this year from one of our district's awesome high school art teachers. The class was over Gelli Printing. I had never heard of this technique before but found it very interesting and so did my students. I used a recipe I found online to make more permanent Gelli Plates although you can buy them. I could not find where I had written down the recipe we were given at the professional development session. The recipe I used just called for gelatin, glycerine, and rubbing alcohol. I made several plates over Spring Break in various sized casserole dishes. My principal approved the purchase of a small refrigerator to keep in the art room for Gelli Plate storage. Here are some prints my students from Kinder all the way through Fifth Grade made. They used whatever colors of tempera they wanted and a variety of texture tools. I'll post later some of the finished projects they turned their prints into.
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