Worker Bees

The last few weeks, our students have been working hard on their projects. 

First, second and third grade has been working on their cats inspired by American Artist Laurel Burch, using warm and cool colors. I challenge you to ask your students at home what these warm and cool colors are! They have been exceeding my expectations with their knowledge each week. Some classes painted their cats using cool shapes and warm skin, some painted warm shapes and cool skin. 
Next week, we will be finishing these by adding a background.

Student work from Mrs. Sandy's 2nd grade class

Student work from Mrs. Sandy's 2nd grade class

Student work from Mrs. Sandy's 2nd grade class

 

Fourth and fifth grade has been working on their comic squares inspired by modern artist Roy Lichtenstein. They are outlining and starting to paint mainly using the three primary colors as Lichtenstein did. Each comic is required to have a narrative, or a series of events happening within their picture, using text.
Lichtenstein used tiny painted dots for his characters' skin, so we are using tiny dots for our skin as well. 

They could use a thought bubble, word bubble, or sound bubble. We talked about onomatopoeias, and how they can be used for the sound bubbles with words like "BANG", "SIZZLE", or "OINK". 

Next week, we will continue painting our comic squares.  

Student work from Mrs. Strange's 4th grade class

Student work from Mrs. Hampson's 4th grade class

Student work from Mrs. Strange's 4th grade class