What's ART like in 4th grade?
4th grade is and exciting year for young artists. Many children have a heightened level of independence and enjoy feeling challenged to approach each learning experience in their own unique way. They will be given projects that challenge their skill and craftsmanship. 4th graders are now capable of interpreting the meaning when looking at ART. Many students begin to imbed meaning into their own work. For example they may create art with symbolism or mood. This is an excellent time to visit an art museum and discuss what they see.
4th graders are invited to join one of the three art clubs offered on Thursdays during lunch.
4th graders are invited to join one of the three art clubs offered on Thursdays during lunch.
Drawing Human Skulls
DLP students worked with charcoal to create observation drawings of skulls concentrating on rendering light and dark values.
Expressing Emotions
Students have begun "Emotion Drop Studio". Color, texture and composition can all be combined to express many different emotions. After discussing different emotions students with create emotion drops that express emotions of their choice and then combine their emotions into a wheel.
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Emotion Drops
4th Grade has been working carefully on creating a series of emotion drops that express different emotions using the elements of art.
Border Exhibition
noun
1.
a line separating two political or geographical areas, especially countries.
"the German border with Denmark"
synonyms:frontier, boundary
2.
the edge or boundary of something, or the part near it.
"the northern border of their distribution area"
synonyms:edge, margin, perimeter, circumference, periphery
After exploring the meaning of border student have begun producing original works of art around the theme "border"
Some students have been exploring geographical borders while others have been exploring more personal borders such as the boundaries of their bedrooms and yards. Students who are interested in observational drawing have been using their tablets to do visual research to create detailed drawings of garden borders or soccer field borders! It's been a strong start to this thematic unit. Now time to practice sharing feedback with one another.
Take a look at the progression of pictures below. The project continues to evolve!
Students are exploring their own understanding of "border" in a variety of visual ways. This helps them develop the ability to add meaning to their art making. Students are also learning how to interpret artwork and respond to ideas in productive ways that help with student growth and improve the quality of their art making. Many students have created series of works that can be displayed side by side, while others have chosen to improve their ideas, creating similar works that show growth from their first work of art after receiving feedback from fellow students or myself.
1.
a line separating two political or geographical areas, especially countries.
"the German border with Denmark"
synonyms:frontier, boundary
2.
the edge or boundary of something, or the part near it.
"the northern border of their distribution area"
synonyms:edge, margin, perimeter, circumference, periphery
After exploring the meaning of border student have begun producing original works of art around the theme "border"
Some students have been exploring geographical borders while others have been exploring more personal borders such as the boundaries of their bedrooms and yards. Students who are interested in observational drawing have been using their tablets to do visual research to create detailed drawings of garden borders or soccer field borders! It's been a strong start to this thematic unit. Now time to practice sharing feedback with one another.
Take a look at the progression of pictures below. The project continues to evolve!
Students are exploring their own understanding of "border" in a variety of visual ways. This helps them develop the ability to add meaning to their art making. Students are also learning how to interpret artwork and respond to ideas in productive ways that help with student growth and improve the quality of their art making. Many students have created series of works that can be displayed side by side, while others have chosen to improve their ideas, creating similar works that show growth from their first work of art after receiving feedback from fellow students or myself.
Stop Motion Video
Students have been working hard on their stop motion videos. We all agree we wish we had more time for art so we could keep working on them. Above is an example of a small gesture of kindness stop motion video created by a team of awesome 4th graders titled Saving a Birdy.
Tin Foil Figures
These tin foil figure sculptures will soon be staring in short stop motion videos that show small gestures of kindness in action. How will the students collaborate and create movements for their figures? Some students have been changing their figures into unique characters such as dinosaurs, small children, and ninjas. Now to figure out theses characters' small gesture of KINDNESS! Stay tuned.
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Stop Motion Animation
Students are in the process of creating small tin foil figures to use in a stop motion play project. Stay tuned to see how 4th graders collaborate in a more formal way to produce stop motion animation videos that show a small gesture of kindness!
Gesture Drawing Exercises
Skilled artists are able to draw the human figure in many different poses. Today 4th and 5th graders completed a series of 2 minute drawings to build their drawing skills. Even Mr. Allaway dropped in for a pose! You can check out some student drawings on display. This skills will come in handy for their upcoming art projects. Now students will be able to show action and expression when drawing the human figure.
Texture with Oil Pastel
Students have been experimenting with a variety of drawing media. Today they completed visual research using their tablets to search for different textures before creating the texture using techniques of their choice.