Mrs. Teskey's third grade students at Oxbow worked with Milford High School art students on a special team project. Students from Tara Johnson’s ceramics class came to Oxbow and helped our third grade students design monsters based on Maurice Sendak’s book Where the Wild Things Are. The high school students then used the colorful drawings to create clay sculptures of each monster. Then these were fired, under-glazed, fired, glazed with an over-glaze, then fired a final time. During the final firing, Ms. Johnson's kiln went on the fritz. So she packed the monsters up and we completed the firing at Oxbow. Students got a special peak into the kiln once it was loaded. Currently, some of these are being displayed at Oxbow and some are being shown in the Milford High art show. Wow!
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This was a fun way to review different kinds of lines for my upper el. students. (I did this with third through fifth grades). I kicked of this lesson by reading Crazy Hair Day by Barney Saltzberg. It's a wonderful story about Stanley who gets all ready for crazy hair day but then, just as he walks into class, he hears the teacher announce, "...and Crazy Hair Day is next Friday." Even his best friend makes fun of him saying, "is that a hair do or a hair don't!" Mortified, Stanley hides out in the bathroom. With each class, we talked about how teasing can hurt, and what the other students could have done instead. Then we brainstormed what Stanley could have done differently. At the end of the story, I asked the students to predict what might happen when Stanley finally returns to class? Inevitably, someone always guesses that when he walks in, the whole class has done something crazy to their own hair to help him feel better about his mistake. Yes, that's it. For the art lesson, we reviewed different types of lines, how to press hard and evenly when coloring with crayon to create a wax barrier for the paint in a typical crayon resist. Week two, most students finished painting using tempera cakes. With so much snow this winter, I thought it would be interesting to learn about penguins. Lower elementary students watched part of March of the Penguins, a documentary on emperor penguins in Antarctica. I was surprised to learn some fun facts about these resilient creatures. For example, did you know: penguins can hold their breath for 15 minutes, the father and the mother watch over the egg and chick, they can go without food for two months, and it is VERY cold where they live. Students painted a snowy background first, then cut out penguins from paper and added skis, snowboards, sleds, scarves and other delightful details. These should be heading home after gracing our hallways first. |
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AuthorMy name is Mrs. Krupa and I'm an elementary art teacher at Oxbow Elementary. I'm a professional harpist turned art teacher of 20 years. I'll share art lessons and ideas on these pages, what works and doesn't. Enjoy! Categories
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