Fourth Grade Worms in Space

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Fourth grade students learned about value and and space in this lesson. They had to draw a tube made of curving parallel lines that overlapped at least three times. The next step was to create a light source to show their understanding of light and shadow. Students then drew hatch marks or some type of shading to indicate which side of the tube had shadow. The really fun part was adding details, like space craft, astronauts, aliens, and planets. After drawing everything they then outlined it in black pen and added color for emphasis.

Kindergarten and First Grade Abstract Landscapes

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Kindergarten and first grade students looked at different types of landscapes and paid special attention to the style of  Van Gogh's brush strokes. The first lesson involved painting different sections representing the foreground, middle ground and background. next they learned how to draw realistic looking trees using the letter "V" for the branching. After sketching them in chalk the trees were painted black to represent a silhouette. Students painted their trees two different sizes to show the scale difference when viewing something in the foreground versus the background. the final step was to add colorful dots and dashes to give each section texture and pattern.

Second and Third Grade Pulled Chalk Landscapes

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Second and third grade students looked at images of famous cityscapes and discussed what types of businesses they find on a city street. The first step was to use a template to create the profile of the city, which also served as a cover for the chalk process. the students decided on a cool or warm color scheme and after rubbing chalk in the sky area they began rubbing the chalk After completing the chalk sky they began to design their buildings. Their imaginations really showed up in their drawings of cities!

5th Grade Notan

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Fifth grade students created beautiful Notan projects. Notan is a  Japanese term that deals with visual balance. It is the study between positive and negative space. Students started  with either a 6"piece of black or white paper, they then drew designs that would be cut away form the original square. These pieces were then laid out on the opposite colored background and glued in the opposite space from its original location in the square. 

Art Speaks

With Youth Art Month just days away I thought this video would be a good reminder to all why art matters!

Fourth and fifth grade art students all made self portraits on our class set of iPads. we are so fortunate at Fleming school to have a full set for a full class project. we used the free app called Brushes, which the kids quickly mastered over the weeks we worked on our self portraits. Please click on the "Digital iPad Portraits" link below the first picture to be directed to the slideshow that shows all of the steps used in the making of these portraits.

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Digital iPad Portraits

Kindergarten Hand Trees

Kindergarten and first grade students tried their hand at making hand trees, which we also decided looked like lollipop trees. We are still practicing our tracing, drawing and cutting skills and for this lesson there was a lot of gluing and layering as well.