What We Are Working On

1st Grade-  Students are working on drawing dinosaurs step by step.  They will give their dinosaurs the feel of scales by adding texture to them.  They will be cutting out and gluing the dinosaurs onto a watercolor paper and painting a realistic background.
2nd Grade-  Students are drawing their shoes from observation.  They are working on getting a realistic shape and adding details.  They place the shoe in a background, and add three things that are magnified in size.  They are using a combination of colored pencil and watercolor paint to add color to their piece.
3rd Grade-  Students are learning about typography.  They are spacing and designing lettering, and creating a stencil of their first name.  They use the stencil to print their names multiple times.  When they print, they are learning about repetition and overlap.  They add color using a shading technique called modeling, where they show light, medium and dark tones and blend them.  In addition to their individual piece, we are printing everyone's stencil on a class poster.
4th Grade-  Students are creating a postcard that represents their community.  They are combining lettering with a setting.  The landscape they create should show a clear foreground, middleground and background.  They are outlining their drawings using pen nibs, which they dip into ink.  We use them because they easily create bold lines and thin lines.  We will be exchanging 35 postcards with an I.B. school in Kenosha, Wisconsin and comparing and contrasting the results.  This will give us an opportunity to learn about their community and look at the style of their postcards.