4th and 5th graders had their first rotation!
4th grade students created Cubism inspired self-portraits.
We looked at the below artworks and students engaged in a partner talk followed by a class discussion about Picasso’s art. We discussed how different each self portrait of the artist was, and students shared how work #3 was created using "several shapes", "it looks creepy" and "there are too many eyes" among other things. We talked about Cubism and how this style of creating art does not show people or objects in a realistic way. Instead, the subjects are broken apart into several flat shapes such that several sides of the same subject are shown at once. 
Students used a template for the head shape, sketched how their features would look on paper with examples provided during the first class.
They used cardboard, paint sticks and markers to complete their work during the second class. We used 2 1 hour 20-minute classes for this lesson.
5th graders created their "All about Me" explosion books! Students first created a mind map based on the prompts I gave them such as favorite food, sport, hobby, favorite places, people etc. They then created illustration for some of those prompts and created an explosion book with warm and cool color 6-inch paper squares during the first class.
During the second class, they added illustrations and text in different fonts for the prompts from their mind map into boxes as shown below.
They also and cut and glued the different boxes into their explosion book to complete their work. This lesson took students 2 one hour 20-minute classes and one 45-minute class.
5th graders also created mugs on black card stock with white prismacolor pencils. Students learned how to use 3 different techniques - hatching, cross hatching and scribble. They selected one technique of their choice to use in their final artwork. We looked at how to change a shape into a form by seeing where light falls and by creating shadows.
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