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Showing posts with label Second Grade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Grade. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Happy 2019!

Welcome back to school for the new year! Hopefully everyone had a wonderful vacation and holiday! Here is what we were working on at the end of 2018:

First grade was learning about shapes and patterns through studying the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Kente cloth, and Romero Britto:









Students in first grade are also learning about the artistic process and creating "choice" works of art of their own design:



Second grade learned about how line can show movement, as well as creating patterns through weaving an Ojo de Dios:



Some students liked this technique so much that they created their own at home:







Students studied OP Art artists and created more patterns using complementary colors:







Tuesday, April 3, 2018

3D Forms, and Choice, Cont.

Students at all levels spent time throughout February and March learning about three-dimensionality and building sculptures. Students also continued working on choice-based projects of their own.

Grade 1: Louise Nevelson-style Found Object Assemblage Sculptures


Grade 2: Native New England Bird Sculptures in the style of Alexander Calder






Choice-based Projects


Grade 3: Alberto Giacometti-inspired Wire Figure Sculptures




Students used these figurative sculptures in Tech class to create animations:



 Choice-based Projects

Grade 4: African-inspired Masks from Found Objects




Choice-based Projects


Grade 5: Garden Gnomes with Accessories