Q2 Week 5 in Review

GRADES K-3 DAILY "BELL WORK" FOR  QUARTER 2 WEEK 6

    Honore Daumier

  A Clown and a Drummer

 Honoré Daumier 

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

 Honoré Daumier 

Gesture Drawing of Woman Dancing

After bell work, students use sketchbooks for more extensive, ongoing projects.

All students 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. 

UPCOMING "BELL WORK" FOR Q2 WEEK 7:

Vincent van Gogh - The Reaper 

- after Jean-Francois Millet (1889)

Vincent van Gogh - Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves

- after Jean Franacois Millet

K-3  PROJECTS:  WEEK 6

KINDER

Elements of Art - Shape, Color

This week we began drawing a copy of a Modigliani's portrait in sketchbooks.  In the coming week, students will be creating a self-portrait but in the style of Modigliani.

Amedeo Modigliani

Project: Copy of Van Gogh's Sunflowers

Elements of Art - Color, Texture

GRADE 2

Project: Greek Vessels
Elements of Art - Line, Shape

Students are nearly finished designing their Greek Vessels.  In the coming week, students will add neutral colors with Conté Crayon and then finish tracing over the pencil lines with grease crayons.  

This project was an opportunity for students to design their own Greek Vessel, while still copying various elements from source imagery of vessels, glued into their sketchbooks.

https://www.thoughtco.com/time-periods-of-pottery-ancient-greece-118838

https://www.thoughtco.com/iliad-the-mycenaean-culture-169531

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/the-geometric-period/

Corinthian Period of Greek Pottery Design

  https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=294566001&objectId=399477&partId=1

https://www.hellenic-art.com/corinthian-pottery.html

 

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm

GRADE 3

Students took a break from their Celtic letter designs to learn how to make quilled snowflake ornaments.  This week, the ornaments will be adorning the Christmas trees at the Lower school main entrance.  


Here are a few fun links for making different types of quilled snowflakes:

https://www.allthingspaper.net/2019/11/how-to-make-modern-quilled-snowflake.html


https://www.monicabadiu.com/diy/paper-tree-ornament-tutorial