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Thank you for checking out my classroom website.  Below is my classroom blog, where I include pictures of student work and instructional videos.  Above I have links to our student Artsonia gallery, Youtube channel and my Prezis.  If you have any questions, leave me a comment and I'll respond as quickly as possible.

Second Grade's Squid Animation Piece on the DoInk App

1/26/2014

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This is my second attempt at this lesson with my second grader's.  I tried to cram this lesson in at the end of the 1st quarter and it was paced too fast and the work was rushed.  It ended with only one out of three classes with finished pieces.  So when I got the iPads back for 2nd grade this quarter I slowed the lesson down and had my classes try again.  I talked about foreground and background while we created our animation pieces.  The kids really enjoyed coming up with an underwater background for their squid.  Overall this was far more successful the second time.  To see the rest of Second grade's work click on my YouTube button in the top right corner of the screen.  I plan to complete a second animation piece and talk more about foreground and background, introduce Rousseau's jungle paintings and have my second graders create a jungle scene with a hiding animal.  Stay tuned.
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Warm or Cool Winter Birch Trees

1/7/2014

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We were reviewing the learning objective: I can identify and use warm and cool colors.  Third grade began by looking at a photos of white birch trees and looked for correct landscape proportion with large thick trees up front and thinner smaller trees in the back of the photo.  

The first step was to use masking tape, to tape off four or more trees, showing correct landscape proportion.  Smaller, thinner pieces of tape were cut to create branches.  Then the edges of the masking tape was traced with pencil and a horizon line drawn slightly above the bottom of the shortest tree.  A watercolor wash was painted in the sky using warm or cool colors only.  

During the last day on this piece the masking tape was removed carefully and we added the black "smudges" using black tempera paint and cardboard strips.  I found the idea for this lesson on www.artroom104.blogspot.com

My instructional video for this lesson is below.

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Tubular Paper Sculpture

1/1/2014

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With this lesson we reviews the definition of sculpture-in-the-round and asymmetrical balance.  The lesson began by dividing a 8.5 x 11" paper into at least five spaces and fill with black and white, complex patterns with a balance of light and dark.  I briefly introduced them to Zentangles and we looked at a few for ideas and inspiration.  Once their paper was filled with pattern I copied it ten times and cut it into 3.5" x 8.5" pieces before the next class.

Each paper piece was rolled into tight/small tubes and secured with glue.  A black base was created with cardboard and black construction paper.  The final step was to assemble an asymmetrical sculpture-in-the-round securing the tubes with glue and some patience.  

The student's loved this lesson.  I discovered this lesson at a Missouri Art Teacher's conference many years ago.  Sorry, but I am unable to find the teacher's name who shared it at the conference.

My instructional video for this lesson is below.

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    Denise Jackson

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