K-2 DAILY "BELL WORK" FOR WEEK FOUR
All students will complete "bell work" at the start of each class before any other instructions are given. As soon as students are seated, they are to immediately put pencil to paper and begin drawing the image projected before them; no questions, no comments; no distractions.
(Kinder will begin doing bell work near the end of second quarter)
All attention is focused on looking carefully and recording what students SEE.
This is SILENT work time. Students are working independently, although I often interject with some guidance and state simple parameters. Students are graded primarily on their efforts and participation, not entirely on the outcome of their drawing.
After drawing, we have a brief class discussion to learn more about the artwork. We make some guesses at to what the work may be about; what the story may be behind the work. We THINK about how the artist used line, color, shapes, etc. to communicate meaning and emotion. We discuss how we may not all respond to the art work in the same way.
The final step in our Bell Work exercise is to ask ourselves more questions about the art work. We WONDER what the artist intended to communicate. This is where Ms. Northway may need to do some research to share what she learned about the artist and her/his life experiences.
I typically show students three artworks by the same artist. In this way, they become familiar with the style of a particular artist, and often can recall the artist's name. All of the children's drawings will be glued into small weekly/bi-weekly books to bring home.
PLEASE KEEP YOUR CHILD'S WEEKLY BOOKS IN A SAFE PLACE (and ordered in a BIG 3 RING BINDER) SO YOU CAN SEE GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Helen Frankenthaler
Canyon (1965)
Image of the Grand Canyon
Helen Frankenthaler
Orange Mood (1966)
Image of the Grand Canyon
PROJECTS: WEEK 4
After bell work, students will be using sketchbooks for more extensive, ongoing projects.
KINDER
Students will finish their project from last week, and then begin making their own "Scholar's Rocks" to display in their room at home."
Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Color
- Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Form
Students will finish their project from last week, and then begin making their own "Scholar's Rocks" to display in their room at home."
What is a scholar's rock you may wonder? I first learned about them from a visit a few years ago to the San Antonio Museum of Art. In the museum's reproduction of a Chinese "scholar's studio", there are two small rocks displayed on elaborately carved wooden bases. This scholar's studio is part of the museum's permanent collection.
And just today, as I'm writing this blog, I have discovered that there is a new addition to the museum's collection!
Here is a link:
- Students will make their own scholar's rock, by pushing a small rock into a ball of air dry clay.
- The following week, students will create drawings of their rock, imagining it as a mountain. This rock drawing will also be inspired by looking at Chinese watercolor landscape paintings.
- This will be the first attempt by these very young students to learn the concept of blind contour drawing. I ask them to move their pencils slowly while looking at their rock....syncing the movement of their eye and their moving pencil.
- I ask students to imagine the rock as a mountain and to slowly trek their eyes and pencils over its' surface from one side to the other. And, of course, one can't hike over that mountain quickly, right?!
Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Color
- This week, we will continue working on our Roman Mosaic Tiles.
- Students in each class section are using a different combination of colored craft foam "tiles".
GRADE 2
- Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Color (analogous colors)
- I will read the book - Seeing in Symmetry
- Sample exercises from worksheets will then be cut out and glued into student sketchbooks.
- Students will begin making monoprints of butterflies, using black acrylic paint.
- Half of the lines for the butterfly will be painted a few strokes at a time.
- After each paint stroke, the paper will be folded paper in half, creating a printed, symmetrical design. The spaces inside the lines will be colored in with oil pastels.
GRADE 3
- Elements of Art - Line (Blind Contour, Continuous Contour)
- Students will be learning:
- Blind contour drawing-- Observational drawing of hand
- Continuous contour drawing -- Partner Portrait drawings
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