See these finished pieces and other amazing works by Dryden Central School District K-5 students at our district-wide K-5 Art Show on May 16th!
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Third Grade: Reinterpreted Famous Artworks
Third Grade: Film Photography
Here is a sneak peek at the loveliness that came back from sending third graders home with disposable film cameras.
I am constantly searching for/finding ways to show my students how much can be learned, especially if you don’t just “have it.” Looking at this next group of photographs by one of my students, Erich, I was reminded of what it looks like to just have it. Erich could have taken these photographs regardless of what I taught him in art class. Bravo!
Third Grade Hopes
What do you do when it seems like the only news out there is sad or bad news?
Third graders make good news by sharing positive messages of hope through art:
Thank you to Shannah at newcityarts blog for this beautiful idea!
Third Graders Have Heart
Third graders just began a new project to be finished in time for our school’s “Dryden Has Heart” Assembly. I can’t wait to see where they’ll decide to go next with this!
Come back in a few weeks to see the finished results 🙂
Fresh artworks up at the Dryden Community Center Cafe!
Third grade alter egos
Students whose artwork is on display will have a note delivered to them at school.
Artworks will be up until the end of November…Stop in and take a look!
Third Grade: Alter-Ego Self-Portraits
This project just might be at the top of my favorites list…I know because the pieces shown above were completed at 3:08, and they were hanging up by 4:15 🙂
We looked at work by Pablo Picasso, taking note of the different angles represented in his Cubist work, which led us into a conversation about showing different sides of ourselves. Using complementary colors (colors opposite of each other on the color wheel) third graders began creating alter-egos.
Fast-forward a couple of lessons later, and Jack, my calm and collected artist was creating lightning-bolt hair
Matthew, one of the biggest sweethearts in the world had created this very mysterious and menacing character, complete with a very serious “mustachio”
Rebecca, one of my most confident and bubbly artists created this very frightened queen-from-another-world-like character
Mason, who so incredibly respectful and has such impeccable manners, created this very goofy character who looks like he could stand to grab a tissue or two
Caleb, who barely makes a peep in art, created this screaming character with electric purple hair
Aren’t they just fantastic?! I’m so inspired to write about each of these characters, and I want to know more about each of them…
…but I think I’ll leave that up to them to share 🙂
Coming Soon…Third Grade Alter Egos!
Picasso-Inspired Alter Ego
Third graders have begun working on one of my favorite projects! Come back soon to see the finished results and discover how we got there!
Third Grade: Birds of Hope
How beautiful are these?! Originally, I intended to have the third graders glaze their birds, but then I read this post by Abbey Hendrickson (my former art teacher!) and was inspired by that darling little gold bird on the chicken coop. It was a last minute decision, but sometimes those are my best.
To introduce this lesson, I asked the third graders, “What do you hope to see more of in our world?” These “Birds of Hope” represent the third graders’ ideas, as one of my students said “to make our world even more awesome!” Couldn’t have said it better myself 🙂
Speaking of being awesome, check out Abbey Hendrickson’s recently published book, You are Awesome: 21 Crafts to Make you Happy on Amazon!
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