Week of 9/11/2023 - 4th and 5th graders

 4th and 5th graders started their rotation this week!

4th graders started work on their Typography self portraits and looked at the work of illustrator Lorenzo Petrantoni. We had a Turn and Talk followed by a class discussion about things we observed - artwork rich in text, use of a variety of fonts and minimal color. Students created a mind map of words based on prompts I provided - adjectives to describe yourself, favorite people, favorite color, holiday, place and favorite hobbies.

We create a pencil self portrait - we took our time drawing the different parts. We ended the class by students looking at the words in their mind map and adding them using different fonts in the different areas in their self portrait. I encouraged students to fit their words in the spaces they chose by changing the size of the letters.

 5th graders started work on their Name Sculpture and looked at the work of sculptor Jaume Plensa - one of his works is located in downtown San Diego! We had a class discussion about what we noticed and wondered. I encouraged students to use the sentence starters I added in the classroom. We noticed that the artist used letters from different languages, with symbols and shapes in his sculptures. We created a mind map like the 4th graders did. Students used poster board to draw letters of their name using block letters and cut them out. They stored their letters in an envelope I created using construction paper - a different color for each of the 4 different classes.

 

Since 5th graders also receive an additional 45 minutes each week during their rotation, I decided this was a good time to start our stop motion animation videos. Students formed pairs, cut out letters of a positive quote using block letters and stored them in envelopes to use the following class.