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Torn Book Page Seascape Fourth Grade

4/3/2017

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​The following learning objectives for this project is: We can identify and create an original seascape.

Students used old out of print book pages to color  with watercolor paint for the water and sky.  The pages are then torn in strips to create wavy water and sky. 

White and brown paper was used to draw and cut out at least three ships in three different sizes to glue onto the water to show space by placing the larger boat up front and a smaller boat nearer to the horizon line.  

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Second Grade Bridge Designs

4/20/2015

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We began this lesson by reading the book "Bridges are to Cross".  In this book there are examples of different types of bridges from all over the world.  What each bridge is made of, when each was built and what they are used for.

Then each student designed their own bridge, outlined and colored it with black marker.  Watercolors were used to paint the water and sky in the impressionist style.  I encouraged students to use cool colors in the water and warm colors in the sky.

The read aloud video of the book, "Bridges are to Cross" and the instructional video are below.  

I found this lesson idea at:
http://artwithmrhall.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/year%206

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Torn Paper Seascape Collage

3/23/2015

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The following learning objectives for this project are: I can identify and use warm and cool colors & I can identify and use middle ground, overlapping and change of size to create illusion of space.

First students chose whether they would use warm colors for the sky or for the water.  The opposite colors (cool) were used for the space not filled by warm colors.  Scrap construction paper was torn into short to medium strips of color and glue horizontally across the space.  

Black paper was used to draw and cut out at least two ships in two different sizes to glue onto the water to show space by placing the larger boat up front and a smaller boat nearer to the horizon line.  

I found the idea fro this project at: mrosartroom.blogspot.com
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Fourth Grade Seascape with Student Photo

10/28/2013

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For this piece we took our Torn Paper Value Seascape collage and photographed it.  I then took a photograph of each 4th Grader in a blow up boat our after-school care program was kind enough to lend me.  I couldn't find a user friendly, free "photo-shop like" app to erase the background of our photos so we used the drawing app Brushes.

We first downloaded the seascape photo into the app.  Then downloaded our boat photo and sized it making sure to place it in correct proportion.  (Large boat photo goes upfront in the foreground and small boat photos go in the background.)

The final step was to erase the background around our boat photo and upload our piece to Dropbox, so I could put them on Artsonia.com.  Some students chose to use the drawing tool to add additional details like shark fins.  This was a quick one day lesson that the kids really enjoyed.

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Fourth Grade Value Scale Torn Paper Seascape

9/30/2013

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This is one of my favorite projects.  They always turn out beautiful and the kids love the paint mixing and tearing the paper.

We covered the following learning objectives with this piece:

I can use tempera paint to create a tint by adding white to a color.
I can use tempera paint to create a shade by adding black to a color.
I can create an original seascape.

One 9 x 12" paper  was folded longways (like a hot-dog) in half to get two equal rectangles and one 12 x 18" paper was folded in half short-ways (like a hamburger) twice to get four equal rectangles.  We then used tempera to mix and paint tints and shades of one color.  We painted one rectangle just the color as is, three rectangles in three different tints and then the small paper was painted with two shades.  

After the paint dried we tore each value into a strip with a slight wave to create the effect of white topped waves.  I asked the class to arrange the colors in a progression of color, with the lightest at the top and the darkest at the bottom.  We glued our progression onto matching construction paper and added a paper sun to complete our piece.

I found this on Artsonia many years ago.  I'm sorry I don't have the name of the school.

Keep an eye out for an additional element added to our seascape coming soon.

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