Grade 3 Artists 2013-2014
Showing posts with label Grade 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grade 3. Show all posts
Assessing Growth in Drawing
How can I draw what I see?
At the beginning of the year, each student at GWA from Grades KG2-Grade 5 was asked to do their best drawing in 10 minutes. They had to draw a of a pot of art supplies. They reflected on their work and set goals for how they would improve in drawing this year.
Here are some of the drawings and reflections from Grade 3:
- Look for Contour Families: line, curve, angle, circle and dot.
- Air draw
- 'Imagine draw' when you need to overlap
- Look closely... even when you think you're done!
At the beginning of the year, each student at GWA from Grades KG2-Grade 5 was asked to do their best drawing in 10 minutes. They had to draw a of a pot of art supplies. They reflected on their work and set goals for how they would improve in drawing this year.
Here are some of the drawings and reflections from Grade 3:
And very focused Grade 4s:
Dubai in the Future: Creating Cityscapes
How can we use shapes to create a cityscape?
A warm up: creating building shapes with our bodies.
Our window looks like this now!
Using our imagination to draw what we think Dubai will look like when we are older:
International Day in the Art Room
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| Students were invited to decorate our class rain stick for international day this year. Students from all over the world braided and twisted together colours from their countries flags and we tied them onto the stick. |
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| Working Together |
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| Bracelets Too :) |
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| And Flags! |
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| Look who I found in the cafeteria: Captain America! |
Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences
Many GWA students visited the art room this week for Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences. Parents loved to see what their children were learning and the students were so proud! It's exciting to see students talking about their growing confidence, skills and their love of art!
smART centers
We all know that art is fun, but don't forget.... it makes us smarter as well! Grade 2 is being introduced to our new smART centers in class during this cycle. Students will alternate between small group instruction with the teacher and more self-directed independent art centers. This will allow for students to be provided with differentiated lessons based on interest or skill and the freedom to practise skills or explore interests during smART centres!
During this cycle, students who worked with the teacher learned about how to use the observational drawing center. I am very proud of the progress that they are making so quickly in their drawing! Here are a few reflections from Grade 2KR:
I thought that painting was the most fun, but when I learned to draw, I thought hat that was really fun too! I learned to do sketching so it looks real! -Miral
I thought that drawing was really boring, but now that I learned, I think it's really fun! -Ahlam
Before I like dpainting more, But now I like drawing too. I had fun doing it! Art makes you feel good! -Amin
Art is from your heART-Omar
Parents, if you'd like to read about some of the benefits of Visual Arts read the articles below:
I thought that painting was the most fun, but when I learned to draw, I thought hat that was really fun too! I learned to do sketching so it looks real! -Miral
I thought that drawing was really boring, but now that I learned, I think it's really fun! -Ahlam
Before I like dpainting more, But now I like drawing too. I had fun doing it! Art makes you feel good! -Amin
Art is from your heART-Omar
Parents, if you'd like to read about some of the benefits of Visual Arts read the articles below:
Peter H. Reynolds "Dot Day"
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In class this week, we are viewing the TumbleBooks version of The Dot. Since our school has a subscription to this website, you can go there and view the animated version of the book at home. The username and password are in your child's agenda. Click on the link above to visit the website.
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| Stitching Dots |
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| Splatter Dots |
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| Chalk Dots |
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| Shiny Dots |
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| Making Dots by NOT Making Dots (negative space) |
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| Watercolour Dots |
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| Plasticne Dots |
WELCOME BACK!!!
It's been a wonderful summer, I'm sure you'll all agree, but isn't it great to be back! It's so good to see so many new and returning students getting excited about creating art. We've been getting to know each other in class and focusing on our essential agreement: RESPECT.
During the first cycle, students have been getting to know the Art room and how to respect materials by working together on a scavenger hunt. It's been fun watching students collaborate, solve problems and be thinkers as they figure out where all of the materials can be found in the art room!
During the first cycle, students have been getting to know the Art room and how to respect materials by working together on a scavenger hunt. It's been fun watching students collaborate, solve problems and be thinkers as they figure out where all of the materials can be found in the art room!
Arty iPad Apps
SUMMER FUN!
The summer holidays are a great time to be creative and practise our skills. I love creating art on my iPad and wanted to share some of my favorite apps with you. I hope you can download them to take with you on your summer holidays!
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| Can you think of a great title for this? -by Gabriel and Mrs Murphy |
The photo above was made with Repix, a free photo editing app with additional tools that you can purchase for a small fee. This picture was made with the free version.
Art Puzzle is a great app that lets you put together many famous paintings in the form of a puzzle. The Lite version features 15 paintings from famous artists.
Magritte It will transform any picture into a surrealistic wonder!
Try Faces imake for a fun collage making app. If you like, save your picture and edit it in another program such as Brushes to add details!
Experience symmetry as never before with Amaziograph. You have to try it to believe it... so much fun! Choose your symmetry type and the app will recreate each line you make with that kind of symmetry.
Starry Night Interactive Animation is a must see. Watch it come to life with music and interact with the painting. You can make the sky swirl and the cypress trees sway!
Van Gogh Interactive allows you to move elements of the paintings around or explore Van Gogh's work in new ways. Explore 'Potato Eaters' with a candle or fill a basket with fruit in 'Still Life with Basket of Apples'. A great app for the little ones.
Press Here is based on the bestselling picture book by Herve Tullet, Press Here features 15 colorful, unique, and inspiring art games. It's a must for those long plane rides!
MoMA Art Lab has some very unique and creative activities. Be sure to visit the activities section and try the suggestions. My kids and I really enjoyed making sound compositions inspired by Elizabeth Murray.
Draw&tell HD has many options to create art. The easy to use recording button lets your child tell about their picture when it's done!
BrainPop Jr now has an app! Key in our school password and have access to all of the BrainPop videos, activities and features from your ipad! be sure to watch the videos about Van Gogh, Picasso and Georgia OKeeffe! Look for ideas for art projects in the activities section of these videos.
I will be adding more apps to this list. Please comment in the section below to add your favorite art apps too!
Celebration of Arts Slide Shows
I'm very sorry, but I'm currently having trouble with Animoto videos. They are not playing as they should... Check back. I hope to have the issue solved soon!
Click on the videos below to see high quality slide shows of the Celebration of Arts videos from the KG2-Grade 1 and the Grade 3-5 celebrations. You can find the full videos of the performances on the GWA Weebly. I hope you enjoy them!
KG2 Art
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3 Art
Grade 4 Art
Grade 5 Art
KG2-Grade2 Art Slide Show
3-5 Art Slide Show
Grade 3-5 Homework
As Grade 3,4 and 5 students finish up this week, they have been told that their homework is to draw, draw and draw, over the next 10 weeks and summer break! Here, 3KR is doing a practice contour drawing. They are getting much better at using thin and thick lines!
Remember:
-Look for dots, circles, straight lines, curved lines and angles!
-Draw slowly. Your pencil should move over the paper as your eye moves over the object.
And have fun!
To become good at drawing you must practice!
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