What's ART like in 3rd grade?
Wow, third grade is an important year for a growing artist! Most students have a new interest in making their artwork look realistic, so we learn observation strategies and drawing techniques. Critique and interpretation is also a focus in 3rd grade art. We spend time looking carefully art art and discussing it's meaning and considering how to improve craftsmanship. You will often find students working on collaborative projects or helping one another with challenges. The art they create all looks slightly different based on their skill and interest. It is rare that we all create the same work of art in class because all artists have different talents and creative ideas. The art that students create is authentically their own.
Interest Drawing
What subject matter will you choose for your drawing?
LANDSCAPE of the world around you. STILL LIFE of objects that interest you. PORTRAIT of a person or character.
What are you most interested in?
LANDSCAPE of the world around you. STILL LIFE of objects that interest you. PORTRAIT of a person or character.
What are you most interested in?
Figures that send a Message
3rd grade artists have each created a painting with a figure as a focal point. Their figures all express an action of the artists choice such as dance, help, play, welcome, and hug. Students have been enjoying mixing their own paint and making artistic choices for their background.
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Welcome to the Print ShopStudents worked to design and print an image of an endangered animal. The video to the left of created to help students learn the printmaking process.
After completing these prints the artists joined exhibition teams and learned how to work as curators to install their artwork at both the Elk Grove Library and our school's LRC. The goals of their exhibitions was to grab the attention of their viewers and ask them to make a difference in the lives of animals. |
Drawing from Observation VS. Imagination
LayersArtists work in layers to refine their works adding details and improvements along the way. Today students worked collaboratively on paintings they created in 2nd grade. Their goal was to refine the original painting by adding a layer of colored pencil and oil pastel. Their final works will be on display at the Fine Arts Festival on February 25th!
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What is ART made of?
Students shared some amazing answers to this question: "everything" "creativity" "imagination" "feelings" "color" "anything". Following this discussion students reviewed the elements of art and were each given their very own flip book. These are filled with lots of ingredients for art making!
Scavenger Hunt
3rd graders explored the ART room on the first day by taking a scavenger hunt. The room looks a little different than last year, and now they feel more comfortable finding the supplies they need. Now it's time to start our first unit!
Students are working in groups of 2 or 3 to produce large scale portraits. In preparation for this collaborative work students learned about the human face and practiced drawing all facial features. Next, after speaking with their partners they determined a plan for completing a LARGE portrait. Some focused on realistic features, while others experimented with cartoon like facial features to help them attain their intended goal. Some of these portraits will greet students as they enter 4th grade in the fall!
Projects such as this encourage problem solving, communication, and creativity. The results will vary greatly, each portrait telling the story of the process each group followed. The year will end with portrait presentations. |
Discussing Cultural Objects
Students are preparing for their final projects. They need to build skills in discussion. Today each table was given norms, questions, and a set of cultural objects. They were asked to describe the objects, talk about how they are used, and then DA DA DA.... explain what the objects say about American Culture. This is the objective of the lesson. Can the students make a claim about our culture using evidence found within a cultural object. They will be asked to do just this for the object they choose for their upcoming final projects.
Learning About Printmaking3rd graders make collaborative Eagle Wings today. This process will help them prepare for an upcoming cultural object print making project. Students learned how to apply a thin layer of printing ink to their plate using a brayer. They art will soon be on display at Clearmont.
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Listening Looking and Responding
We emphasize the importance of reflection in the art room. Throughout the art making process students stop, think, and share their ideas. Students respond to each other with questions, compliments of useful feedback.
After completing an artwork about an emotional moment students met in pairs to talk about their art and determine if they had achieved the emotional they were hoping to achieve with color and image. |
Collage Compositions
After talking about emotion and color, students composed a collage using painted paper. Did their composition create the emotion they intended it to?
Texture Experimentation in Progress
Facial Expression
Collaboration on Day One
3rd graders worked in groups of three to create a work of art by arranging objects. Check out some of their creations: