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SnapChat Filter Selfies
Students loved creating self portraits using snap chat filters. Move over Instagram we all know Snapchat has the best fun filters. To make our selfies even more real we mounted them on a cell phone drawing. This lesson is inspired by Cassie Stephens she has a tutorial on her blog as well as her YouTube… Read more
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Geometric Cats
My first grade did an amazing job drawing their cats and adding geometric shapes in the background. They developed skills in flow drawing which is an art technique developed by artycrafykids.com to encourage children to understand shapes and create them in a freer way. Students were encouraged to discover a natural flow, bringing mindfulness to… Read more
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Grade 5 Still Life
This unit incorporated a variety of elements and principles of art. The students began learning about Value and how to shade from dark to light and vice verse. I then taught them about form and how using value can transform a fruit from appearing flat to round. I did this with an apple, showing them… Read more
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Summertime Self Portraits
Grade 3 having fun learning about proportion, perspective, and how to draw a self portrait. They also developed skills in blending using chalk pastels for the background🎨❤️😎 Read more
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Polar “Bear” Express
Grade 2 learned how to draw a polar bear through a guided drawing activity. They learned about the element of art “ Value” and experimented creating value with oil pastels. They also learned about foreground, middle ground, and background. Read more
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Wonder
Grade 4 IB PYP “All About Me” unit. This Art project was inspired by RJ Palacio’s book “Wonder”. Students created self-portraits inspired by the illustration of the book cover. They then used a variety of adjectives to describe them. We saw clips of the movie, talked about bullying and how being different should be celebrated… Read more
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Save the Koalas 🐨 ❤️🙏🏽 4️⃣ 🇦🇺
My Grade 3’s learning about the element of art “Value”. After discussing the brush fires in Australia they did a guided drawing activity of a Koala. They developed skills in shading and blending using charcoal, oil pastels, and acrylic paints. Watercolors were used to paint the background. Leaves were drawn by observation, value was added… Read more