I'm behind on posts after being sick all last week. I called out on Monday, but went in on Tuesday the 15th to make sure Tuesday classes didn't get too far behind (they already were because of Election day). I've been better at remembering to pull out the camera in some classes more than others...
2nd grade: 2 weeks ago we began our color wheel and color family equations. This past Monday we reviewed the color families, practiced drawing geometric and organic shapes using lines that started on an interior edge of a square, moved into the center space, and returned to the same edge. We figured out simple shapes versus complex shapes. Finally we selected our color families and stared the background of our notan pictures. Next week we'll draw out our final notan pictures and begin cutting and gluing everything.
3rd grade: Last Tuesday, Ms. DiDonato's class printed their pattern coin pictures. They were very creative with their patterns, moreso than the previous class (did I do something different in explaining patterns to them? Or is it just a fluke of who is in each class?)
This week we tallied them up to find out the value of our pictures. The most "expensive" one was over $8.00 worth of coin stamps- lots of quarters I guess. At the end of class we had our "art auction". I was able to explain the process a bit better and the kids made more savvy bids.
Ms. O'Donnell's class began the color wheel/color families lesson like the 2nd graders. We were able to get pretty far and started the backgrounds for the notan project. Now her class is on the same page as the 2nd graders, and a week ahead of the other 3rd grade.
4th grade: Last week we learned about scale and gridded over our contour rock drawings in order to enlarge them. The drawings were 6x6 inches and we transposed them to 12x12 inch squares of corrugated cardboard for a 1:2 ratio of scale. The largest shapes were cut out of brown, then traced onto green to make a smaller concentric shape, then the green shapes were traced onto orange for the smallest concentric shapes. We saved all our scraps of corrugated cardboard for use this week.
Those scraps were used to cut into strips to coil into columns to start turning our concentric flat shapes into small relief sculptures.
Ms. Yancey and Ms. McGinley helped man the glue guns once the kids had their coils ready. Once children had each of their individual pieces built up, they worked in teams of 2-3 to combine their individual sculptures on a new group sub-layer. I told the kids we were pretending to be wind and water carving away each layer of our paper/earth. Ms McGinley's class is just a little further ahead. I think it may take another 2-3 weeks to fully complete.
5th grade: During my day off sick I spent more time experimenting with the sunprinting process than recuperating. It turns out that the sun and temperature are too weak this time of year to let the sunprinting process work, so I decided we would shift to stenciling instead of sunprinting. Ms Gelfand's class completed their stencils on the 15th, but discovered that drenching their fabric meant lost detail. I was able to warn Ms. Albert's class about it before they started and they ended up with much crisper stencil images.
We pinned paper stencils to cardboard, then used fabric paint to stencil. Each table shared one color (grumble, grumble!)
Ms. Gelfand's class got to complete the project this Tuesday by adding details and text with sharpie marker. They look very bold now!
After adding the details we had some time for written reflections:
Next week Ms Albert's class will wrap up theirs and Ms. Gelfand's class will move on to our geometric forms project.
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