9/1/10
5th Grade Begin Work on their Gulf Seashore Birds Calendar
This will be a social justice and activism focus year for the 5th grade class. My goal will be to impress upon them that they can have the power to affect changes in their own world and that art can easily be a venue for their message. For this unit children will create paintings of shorebirds (and pelicans) in their habitats. Their paintings will organized into 12 pages and will be professionally printed on 2011 calendars sold to the school community as a fundraiser for The international Bird Rescue Research Center to help with the affects from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf.
But right now, we are just at the beginning stages of this process.....sketches.
Children use photographs of these birds and draws them on a self-made sketchbook.
Please note, these are just samples of work done by the students. Some children forgot to put their names on their work.
We also looked at some facts about the spill.
I used reproduction images from this book as a resource. 
4th Grade Get Facial Proportions Introduction
Children got a lesson on basic facial proportions. The images you see below are their initial attempts at applying the guidelines. Not all works are shown and these are samples from two fourth grade classes.
3rd Grade create cyclical designs on clear circles
Children did an amazing job creating cyclical window designs using shapes. 
Each child used cardboard shapes to trace into cyclical patterns. They were also asked to overlap some for a more interesting affect.
They then were asked to thicken their lines.
One important factor in keeping a peaceful art room is having enough materials so that kids could remain in their current level of focus without needing to have a discussion with table mates about who gets what when. Of course such negotiations have their merit, yet, the priority here is maintaining ones focus on the objective set for that day.
Children used sharpies to color in the wheels. It is very important that all children come in wearing their smocks to art. A smock is just an old t-shirt that you no longer need. The child keeps them in their locker/cubby and comes and leaves from art wearing it. Also please write your child's name across the front.
Each child used cardboard shapes to trace into cyclical patterns. They were also asked to overlap some for a more interesting affect.
They then were asked to thicken their lines.
One important factor in keeping a peaceful art room is having enough materials so that kids could remain in their current level of focus without needing to have a discussion with table mates about who gets what when. Of course such negotiations have their merit, yet, the priority here is maintaining ones focus on the objective set for that day.
Children used sharpies to color in the wheels. It is very important that all children come in wearing their smocks to art. A smock is just an old t-shirt that you no longer need. The child keeps them in their locker/cubby and comes and leaves from art wearing it. Also please write your child's name across the front.
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