Fifth Grade
What students have done this year:
*Students used their name as art. Students turned the letters in their name into objects and pictures.
*Students learned about the artist Piet Mondrian and his abstract style of using geometric shapes and primary colors in his art. We mixed the real with the abstract by drawing animals and coloring them in the grid style of Mondrian.
*Students worked on optical illusions using lines and color to show movement and rhythm to trick the eye.
*Students worked on a project based on the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Student made a 2in. by 2in. view finder which they are placing on top of a larger flower image so that they focus only on one section. They need to take the small picture and enlarge it by drawing the same image on a 12in. by 12in. piece of paper. They are learning how to shade and mix colors with oil pastels to fill in their drawings.
*Students created a 3D house/castle out of paper. They need to follow measuring directions when using their ruler so that their house can be folded to make a 3 Dimensional work of art. Students will then use paper scraps to create windows and doors that can open and objects that can pop out at you. They can make their house haunted by adding "Halloween" type objects, or just make a fall scene.
*Students created a comic book style work of art using Onomatopoeia as the main element. Students chose a word that is a sound and wrote it in bubble letters. They created a background shape to go along with their word and drew it on newspaper. After cutting out their word, they glued it onto the newspaper shape and mounted it on a piece of colored paper. Students were free to add any other cartoon elements to represent their word.
*Students were introduced to one point perspective by learning how to draw a 3D cake with a slice taken out of it. After going through step by step directions on drawing the cake while getting the right perspective, students leaned shading techniques to make their cake look 3D. They became cake designers and could add what they wanted to their cake.
*Students used their name as art. Students turned the letters in their name into objects and pictures.
*Students learned about the artist Piet Mondrian and his abstract style of using geometric shapes and primary colors in his art. We mixed the real with the abstract by drawing animals and coloring them in the grid style of Mondrian.
*Students worked on optical illusions using lines and color to show movement and rhythm to trick the eye.
*Students worked on a project based on the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Student made a 2in. by 2in. view finder which they are placing on top of a larger flower image so that they focus only on one section. They need to take the small picture and enlarge it by drawing the same image on a 12in. by 12in. piece of paper. They are learning how to shade and mix colors with oil pastels to fill in their drawings.
*Students created a 3D house/castle out of paper. They need to follow measuring directions when using their ruler so that their house can be folded to make a 3 Dimensional work of art. Students will then use paper scraps to create windows and doors that can open and objects that can pop out at you. They can make their house haunted by adding "Halloween" type objects, or just make a fall scene.
*Students created a comic book style work of art using Onomatopoeia as the main element. Students chose a word that is a sound and wrote it in bubble letters. They created a background shape to go along with their word and drew it on newspaper. After cutting out their word, they glued it onto the newspaper shape and mounted it on a piece of colored paper. Students were free to add any other cartoon elements to represent their word.
*Students were introduced to one point perspective by learning how to draw a 3D cake with a slice taken out of it. After going through step by step directions on drawing the cake while getting the right perspective, students leaned shading techniques to make their cake look 3D. They became cake designers and could add what they wanted to their cake.