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First Grade Sunset Memory

12/21/2016

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​Our learning objective for this work is: We will know why artists use images to capture memories.  We will be able to create watercolor wash using several colors. 

We began by looking at a variety of sunset/sunrise pictures and discussed why people take pictures of them.  We then looked at Claude Monet's painting and how we can tell what time of day it was when he painted the pictures by the colors he used.  We then created a watercolor wash using several colors.  After the paint was dry we then added a silhouette scene on top the painting.

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Day of the Dead Clay Slabs

12/14/2016

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​The learning objectives we focused on with this project were: We will know characteristics of artwork used in traditional Day of the Dead celebrations.  We will understand that the decorated sugar skulls are symbolic to the Mexican culture.  We will be able to create artwork that shows our own interpretation of traditional Day of the Dead art characteristics.

With this clay project we discussed and looked at the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead and artwork associated with this holiday.  We focused on the sugar skull and looked at a variety of different skulls and listed similarities we found in all of them.

I then demonstrated how to cut a skull shape from a slab of clay and how to use clay tools and found objects to press skull features and patterns into the slab to represent a sugar skull.

The pieces were left out to dry completely, fired in the kiln and then we used watercolor paint to finish our pieces with colorful patterns.  My teaching partner Michelle Sauer found the idea for this project on Pintrest with no website link and shared it with me.

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Tuesday, what happens next?

12/3/2016

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​We were working on the learning objectives: We will be able to identify the subject matter of artwork and We will know that one purpose of artwork is to tell a story.

We began by viewing the picture book "Tuesday" by David Wiesnar.  The story ends with the start of the following Tuesday night.  I asked students to draw what they thought happens next in the story.  We had some really great ideas.  

Each student began by sketching their idea in their sketchbook.  Then we experimented using two colors of watercolor paint and salt.  We covered our entire paper with a watercolor wash of two colors and then sprinkled salt to create an interesting texture.  We then practiced using scissors and they chose from a variety of different ways to add the ground/grass to their painted paper.  Finally they redrew their ideas from their sketchbook onto the painted paper with pencil, traced drawing with black marker and used construction paper crayons to add color.

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    Denise Jackson

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