Monday, November 30, 2015

December Projects.

Kinder - Primary Color Painting + Cutting.
Lots of work with blending paint, scissors cutting, and marker outlining.
This is huge to build up their fine motor skills and their comprehension of seeing and doing.


Grade 1-
Penguin Projects -
Paper weaving + Clay Penguin Building!
Then
Wayne Thiebaud + Cupcakes

Grade 2-
Paper woven houses - work on completing
THEN
Polar Bears with Personality!
Values from light to dark to show value in work creating more of a 3-d look to the polar bear
+ personality - collage work on details- hats, glasses, earrings, crowns, ear muffs, party hats, bows



Grade 3-
Radial Printmaking Project 3"x 3" = 6"x 6"
Balance
Clay Frame making for our weaving project

Grade 4-
Glazing. Glazing. Portrait completing... lets just get it all done!
so we can get to this:
Symmetrical Paper Mask-making Project
Balance



Grade 5-
Paintings + Dino-Dragons Glazing. Glazing. Glazing.
then
Mrs. Pep- Guitar Relief Sculptures
Mrs. Kizewski- Op Art Cubes OR Clay Bobbleheads
Mrs. Sonnenberg- Abstract Wire Sculptures

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Paperweaving Projects

Video 1.
This explains weaving with yarn on a loom.

We are going to be working on paper weaving...
And creating some different paper weaving works.


Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Grade 1 Polar Unit: Penguins

Penguin Videos: 1 / 2 / 3


Grade 5 - Ceramic Project

Dinosaurs & Dragons.... You Decide... BUT be ready to Work Hard and Be Precise

Dinosaurs- You need to be able to create, label, and identify what your dinosaur eats.

Dragons- You need to be able to create, label, and identify what your dragon protects.

Step. 1
Pinch Pot

Step. 2
Everything Else.
Move from Big Parts to Detail