Kindergarten students heard a story called Little Elk Hunts Buffalo. This unusual story is "written" using authentic American Indian pictures such as were used traditionally in winter counts, or to record events. Most children immediately grasped the concept of telling a story with pictures and began their own story drawn on the front and back of a "deer skin" shirt. After coloring them, they fringed the bottom and sleeves, then eagerly rushed up to other classmates to tell their stories.
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Third graders are completing a unit on color theory, which included the color wheel, warm and cool colors, tints and shades. Then students painted cool colored city buildings under a warm colored sun. They mixed their colors and created a darker shade for each building to make it more 3D.
Students enjoyed a unit on fossils and dinosaurs this year. For lower el, I started with a story by Marcus Pfister called Dazzle the Dinosaur. For upper el, we watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video. Students followed a step-by-step lesson on how to draw and paint a landscape, then drew their dinosaurs the next week. Fourth and fifth graders did research on their chromebooks finding out interesting information about fossils, what place their dino had in the food chain, and interesting facts about their dinosaur. We visited www.enchantedlearning.com and clicked on dinosaurs for their research and fact finding. Toward the end of the unit, teams of students were able to be paleontologists and take a bunch of "bones" that they then had to assemble into a complete dinosaur skeleton. This took problem solving (no directions) and teamwork. We also watched a time lapse video of scientists putting together a full size Hadrosaur in a museum to peak their interest. Oxbow's fourth and fifth graders watched a PowerPoint about Pop Art focusing on Andy Warhol and his silkscreen portraits. Next they brainstormed together to decide on a person for their portrait. We have Edward Scissorshands, Jack Sparrow, Sponge Bob, Mario, and Elvis Presley to name a few. Next they worked with teammates to design and draw tracers. These were then used use to cut out four identical portraits out of colored paper, with each one using different colors. I'm excited to see the creativity, but more importantly it has been fun to watch them problem solve together. Team projects involve cooperative learning skills that even adults struggle with. I'm proud to see our students sharing, encouraging one another, and disagreeing gracefully. Way to go Oxbow Owls! Fourth and fifth grade students at Brooks and Oxbow have been learning about silhouettes, creating stencils and the idea of positive and negative space. Students used masking tape to create a tree with multiple branches. Next they used watercolors to paint their paper in a variety of creative ways.
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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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