Tuesday, April 22, 2014

116- I brought group one in to continue their maps of our community.  Two students finished and the others will finish tomorrow. I showed them how to "age" the paper by creating a wash with tempera paint. They will take these maps on a walk around our community to learn to relate the lines and words on the map to reality, so they understand the purpose of maps and gain greater knowledge about our community.

The Burchfield-Penney Art Center docents visited the pre-k today!  One grade level per day will receive a visit from the Burchfield-Penney this week. We were hoping to take a nature walk with the docents, but the weather did not cooperate.  Instead, we took a nature walk inside of the classrooms, searching for natural objects that our school and the Burchfield-Penney provided. The students looked at images from the Burchfield's collection, including images of Burchfield's work, and created a collage with one image and the objects from nature. 

One student completed the collage, but then was inspired to draw one of the houses in a Charles Burchfield painting. She made the facade transparent, so you can see the rooms and the stairs inside.  The detail work is pretty fantastic and the fact that the image inspired her to create this artwork is a wonderful thing.

                                      

112- I started creating maps with 112.  All of the second grade classes are going to complete these maps of the community and collaborate on the last few projects of the year. 

101- We're working on finishing up their identity wall. One student demonstrated the power of 

104- We are finishing up nocturnal animals.