Week of 9/19/2022 - 4th and 5th grade

 I started my first rotation with 4th and 5th grades this week!

4th grade created self portraits inspired by artist Nate Williams. This is a perfect lesson for beginning of the year - it helps students start the year with a positive self image and helps me get to know about them through their art. 

Each student created a mind map of words based on the prompts I gave them - 3 adjectives they would use to describe them, favorite people, favorite things about school among a few others. Once done, students create an outline of a head and added an eye, nose, mouth and hair/ hat. They then added the different text from their mind map using different fonts - I gave each student samples of fonts. We will continue working on this next class to complete it. 

5th grade students created art inspired by the works of artist Lisa Congdon. We looked at her art, engaged in a turn and talk, class discussion and noticed that she uses text and symbols. Students created a mind map of words using prompts I gave them. On a piece of watercolor paper, they each drew lines to create 8 boxes. They drew a symbol for each of the words from their mind map and added a positive quote. Students started outlining with Sharpie markers and will add crayons and watercolors to complete their work next class.