Fall into Autumn and integrate Art with Science with these observation drawing lessons. Students learn to carefully observe details and focus on the art elements line, shape, and color. Both lessons include a watercolor component, and they connect well with any science lessons that deal with seasons or plants. Autumn Leaves Observation Drawing requires students to focus on details, and encourages them to draw large and off the edge of the paper to create dramatic compositions. Leaf Shape Trace and Paint uses leaf-shaped templates so that students can concentrate on layout, positioning, color, shapes, and the use of negative space. Each lesson in this bundle is also available individually. Lessons included are: - a list of art concepts and skills addressed - a list of materials needed - targeted art vocabulary and related vocabulary - detailed steps for introducing the lesson - step-by-step directions for the art-making activity - ideas for extending or varying the lessons - directions and suggestions for looking at and discussing art - writing extension suggestions - photographs of student work for reference Resource includes: • two art reflection worksheets • eight different leaf shape templates to copy and cut for tracing These comprehensive lessons are designed to teach art appreciation, art technique, and art analysis; and to foster authentic art-making and art education. National Core Visual Arts Standards are listed at the beginning of each lesson. This resource also includes a description of the National Core Visual Arts Anchor Standards and an overview of ways Art education supports other areas of the curriculum. Listed grade levels are suggestions only; any of these lessons can be simplified or made more complex to work for any elementary grade. Related art lessons: Still Life for Kids Drawing Patterns from Nature More Art lessons and Art-integrated resources: Art Task Cards - self-directed Art activities for early finishers or Art centers Artist Biographies for Kids - informational text with ‘draw and write’ response prompts Integrating Art Across the Curriculum Sampler Bundle - five integrated Art lessons Language Arts Strategies with Art BUNDLE - learn Language Arts skills through art observation and discussion Need art lessons to last an entire school year? Save money with my Art All Year MegaBundle! ••••• I am a retired elementary classroom teacher, a former art teacher, an artist and a writer. I have a Multiple Subjects credential, a Single Subject credential for Art and English, LDS/ESL certification, a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education with a Mathematics focus, and Montessori certification. I have worked with all elementary grades, and with special groups including ELL, GATE, and At-Risk students. Creating Art With Kids and Share2Learn lessons and resources are designed to foster student creativity, choice, and independence, and to encourage authentic art-making. Consideration is given to developmental appropriateness, differentiation possibilities, and teacher individuality. For this reason, directions are general, expectations are open-ended, and clip art on student pages is kept to a minimum. ••••• Terms of Use: Permission is granted to copy for single classroom use only, including homeschool classrooms, for use with classroom students. Additional licenses may be purchased for a reduced price. Electronic distribution is limited to single classroom use. Public and/or online display are not authorized; this resource may not be posted on district or classroom websites, or on any teaching resource websites, without permission of the author. Please do not give away my work. ••••• Connect With Me: Creating Art With Kids Facebook Group Pinterest: Renee Goularte Blog: Creating Art With Kids ••••• Find out about new products, discounts, and freebies! Look for the “follow me” link near the store logo at the top of the page. Become a follower to receive updates about my resources. Get TpT credits! Provide feedback on purchased products for TpT credits toward future purchases. Look in your “My Purchases” page for the “Provide Feedback” button. Enjoy!
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Words and pictures. Each one provides a way to express our innermost feelings and outermost observations, but in very different ways. The analytical, linear, logical left brain uses language to navigate and describe life. The creative, imaginative, intuitive right brain, having no language at its disposal, uses art. Both writing and art are equally important because both sides of the brain have important things to tell us. For me, I grasped onto both words and pictures as a means to describe my world at an early age and continue to explore both forms of expression. Northern Lights Elementary School 5th Grade Class mosaic #1! In February, I had the honor of sharing my experience in both writing and art with 80 fifth graders at Northern Lights Elementary School (NLES) in Superior, Wisconsin. Teacher Julie Tersteeg asked me to speak to the fifth grade class about my educational journey, with a focus on the importance of learning to write well, and to share my love of the Zentangle (R) method of pattern drawing with the fifth grade class. The students had already been using the zentangle method of pattern drawing in class, so this artistic outlet was not new to them. Class mosaic #2 created on February 26, 2014! On February 26, I journeyed to NLES and in one hour I talked and talked and then drew and drew, first with 40 students and then with 40 more. The students were polite, asked interesting questions, and drew beautiful tangles (artwork created using the zentangle method). Collaborative art! Before I left, inside recess had begun and I was thrilled to see students practicing the patterns we had drawn together in class. (The temperature was below the -20 degree threshold for outside recess.) Creativity in action during inside recess. After my visit, fifth grade teachers Julie Tersteeg, Stacy Burfield, Kathleen Beiswenger, and Stephanie Gillman asked their students to use artwork created using the zentangle method as a creative writing prompt, resulting in 80 imaginative, delightful, and, in some cases, profound short stories with accompanying artwork. I am excited to share their creativity with you, here, in the posts that follow over the next week. I hope you enjoy reading their stories and appreciate the students' art as much as I did. Note: I have received teacher and parental permission to post all stories and artwork shared here and in the posts that follow. To learn more about the Zentangle method of pattern drawing and find a certified teacher near you, visit http://www.zentangle.com/ To learn about my journey to and through Zentangle, read more here.
These (mostly unfinished) Mona Lisa collages were made by a group of grade 5 & 6 students at the end of last year. I gave each studen...
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect who designed some of the most iconic buildings in the world. He was a pioneer of organic architecture.
Okay here is a little bit of crafty fun! This year 4th and 5th grade made these adorable 3D spooky houses! It was so much fun and a friend of mine gave me the idea to use them to make Christmas Gingerbread houses as well. Maybe we will do that next year! I posted step by step instructions on the oragami part. For the decorations, we started with coloring the background (sky, grass, front of house,details of things in the windows) for the first class period so we could store them flat and not have to make space for 400 mini houses. They also took a small triangle and glued it on the front of the top tier which will become the top roof next time. The second class period, they taped a strip of black paper folded in half to the triangle to form the roof. then little strips to the second and first story roof. They made fences, and added little pop up ghosts, pumpkins, scarecrows, bats, trees, etc. with scrap paper. First fold paper in half and draw two lines, an inch from the side and half way up the paper with the FOLD at the BOTTOM Cut the lines and fold the flap up flush with the top of the folded paper Draw two more lines, an inch from the edge of the flap, and half way up the flap cut those lines and fold that piece up flush with the top of the folded paper Open the entire paper and pop up the three middle parts pushing the sides inward until it looks like this You should have three little steps glue another piece of cardstock behind the oragami paper for the backing, and let the coloring begin!!
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Last year my student teacher decided to create a "cheat plate" for some of my students struggling with marking their circle looms. I have always made my students mark, cut, and warp their own looms. I feel that gives a better understand of the total weaving package!! It isn't ways fun & games...sometimes it is frustrating....sometimes it is more math & science than art. However, with only seeing my students one day a week...and the holidays eating into my schedule a little...I needed a time saver. The "Cheat Plate" was exactly what I needed to speed up the process a bit so we could actually get to weaving. It still is in their hands to do...but saves a lot of time and frustration on their part. I made enough to have one at each table. If you aren't a "circle weaver"...the reason you might need a cheat plate is to evenly space your marks around the circle. If the marks are not even...the weaving will take place off center...which means a smaller weaving for the student. The wedges are cut out around the "Cheat Plate" so that students can take a marker and draw from the center of the wedge out. This creates a near perfect balance of lines around the circle...there are always little mistakes here and there, but over all...this worked like a DREAM! They are doing a great job so far...and should be done weaving next class time..and will be able to start decorating the plate. If you are new to my blog...and have not seen me do this lesson in the past...here are the links. I give a lot more info on how to do the warp...and other info you might think useful on weaving. The circle weaving is toward the bottom of the weaving posts...so you'll need to scroll down for this weaving project. Check it out! http://artwithmre.blogspot.com/search/label/Weaving
Although we just worked on the Chihuly project a few days ago, we worked on this week's project today. We're traveling later this week and didn't have much going on today so figured it would be the perfect afternoon activity. This week we focused on Paul Klee. He was a Swiss Expressionist and taught with Kandinsky at the German Bauhaus school. He loved color theory and taught it at the school. He was also very musical as a child and ended up marrying a pianist. No wonder he was friends with Kandinsky! :-) Here are a few of his works: The Rose Garden, 1920 I asked the girls what they saw in this picture. They said "flowers!" and then I asked them to show me the stems which they could. And one of them said, "He likes to use shapes." Red Balloon, 1922 Before I told them the name of this image, I asked them what they saw. My younger daughter said, "A red balloon!" And I told her she was absolutely right and that it was the name of the artwork. She was very pleased with herself. ;-) Flora on the Sand, 1927 "More shapes and lots of colors." Blue Nacht, 1937 This was Ella's favorite. She said right away she liked it because it was her favorite color, BLUE! Castle and Sun, date unknown I've seen the project we worked on today in various forms throughout the blogosphere. But we followed a modified version of Mrs. Art Teacher's lesson. :-) Instead of having the girls make all their own shapes with a ruler, I cut out out shapes from cardboard in our recycling bin so they could use them to trace. I left this image up on the computer for them to use as a guide: After tracing all their shapes, they went over their pencil lines with a crayon: Then painted in each shape with watercolor paints. Per Mrs. Art Teacher's suggestion, I told them to paint one shape and then jump to another spot on the page to do a new shape/color. This helped keep the colors from mixing. And finally, they painted the black around the outside. Here are their final projects: Lily's Castle and Sun Ella's Castle and Sun The girls really liked this project. I think it was a nice easy one to follow our very lengthy and intricate Chihuly project. This project could also be modified in a number of ways for younger artists. You could leave out the painting all together. Cut different shapes out of construction paper and have the child assemble their castle on black paper by gluing the shapes in place. You could also make this a three-step project over several days for younger kids with shorter attention spans. Have them draw the shapes one day and trace with crayon, have them paint the shapes another day, and then have them paint the black on the last day.
Get ready for March Madness with sports science projects and experiments for basketball fans!
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Celebrate the 100th day of school with this fun 100th day writing activity. The worksheet makes for great classroom discussions. Topics included are: We are celebrating the 100th day of school on... What I learned the first 100 days... My age on the 100th day of school... If I had $100 I would buy... What I still want to learn this year... I could eat 100... I could never eat 100... I wish I had 100...
Use station activities to improve reading comprehension! Get your students
Use Post-it Super Sticky Notes to play this awesome and easy math game.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
This National Wildlife Federation Pamphlet book was an educational nature series written for 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade children. This pamphlet, Would You Have Liked to Have Lived When gives you a chance to see the United States when it was a young country and the land covered with forests, wildflowers and full of wild animals. Many beautiful color and black and white nature artwork and exciting facts of nature and used thru out this vintage children's educational paperback. This paperback conservation booklet is in great shape for its age. No rips, tears or writing inside this book. Small stains on pages, as shown in pictures. Please scroll in and view these in the pictures. This educational National Federation pamphlet is an exciting addition to your home library. Please use pictures as a guide. Have any questions or need more pictures, just ask. Book Dimensions: 9x7x1
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
Manhattan loft Corporation takes on its biggest challenge to date with the hotel restoration of the St Pancras Hotel and Chambers apartments.
If you teach an older struggling reader, you know what a challenge motivation can be. Many of them have said, “I can’t,” for so long when it comes to reading, that the label reluctant reader doesn’t even begin to tell the half of it. By the time a child is in upper elementary school {4th/5th grades}, ... Read More about High Interest Low Readability Books for Struggling Readers
Poetry books for children are one of those rich resources that I think parents often overlook. Many of these make for wonderful gifts!
