AZTEC SUNS - 5th GRADE CALENDARS

In 5th grade, as a theme for our 2015 calendar, we decided to draw Aztec Suns. In the classroom, as part of our 2014-2015 school project ("Around the world on top of a plate"), they are studying Mexico and its ancient history and culture.

For our Art work, we worked on basic shapes: oval, lines, diamonds..., symmetry and colour contrast, combining cool and warm colours in our creations. We drew the suns and their features and then divided the background into 2 or 4 parts that we decorated with patterns. We coloured it with Manley and pastel crayons and traced it both with crayons and markers.

Here's the result if you'd like to see:

AROUND THE WORLD ON TOP OF A PLATE/CUP/MUG-4th GRADE CALENDAR

4th graders chose the exact title of our 2014-2015 school project "Around the world on top of a plate" as a theme for their 2015 calendar. They also connected it to their classroom theme, where they are cooks.

We painted a sky with watercolours (they chose if they wanted a classic blue sky or a sunset sky) after having drawn a few white lines with crayons that will pop out of the watercoloured background. Having done this, they drew a hot air balloon which theu decorated with different lines and patterns and instead of making a basket, they drew a plate, a mug or a cup to put themselves in (perfect occasion to review some kitchen-related vocabulary). Meanwhile, we took pictures of them as if they were travelling in their painting hot air balloon (very fun moment, by the way!). When everything was ready (3 lessons), we cut the hot air balloon and pasted it on the background paper and then pasted out photo in the hot air balloon. To finish, we made some 2-D clouds to decorate our skies.

Here you are some examples if you'd like to see. 

12 FRUITS FOR 12 MONTHS - 3rd GRADE 2015 CALENDARS

Last December, in our Art lessons, we made our 2015 calendars based on our school project "Around the world on top of a plate".

In 3rd grade, we chose 12 fruits for 12 months. We learned some new names of fruits and analyzed their characteristics (colour, shape, texture...) to be able to draw them and assigned one fruit to each month. After the planning, we made a grid using a square shaped stencil and painted it with watercolours. On a different sheet of paper we drew the fruits, coloured them with crayons and traced them with a black crayon. After this, we pasted them onto the grid and our painting was ready!

Here you are some examples of our healthy and yummy calendars if you'd like to see!

THE MAGIC OF COLOURS

As every year, 3rd graders were introduced to Art (it's their first year doing "Plástica" iun English at our school) by learning about the magic of colours. For that, we usually read "Little blue and little yellow" and then experiment with primary colours. And that's what we did, as you can watch on the video below:

WE'RE BACK!

Hi there!

Here you are the first post of this school year. This time it shows an activity done by 3rd grade "little artists". 

This year, at school, we are working on the project "Around the world on top of a plate". One of the stops we've made has been Germany, European country from where we learned some information. Anna, an English teacher from Potsdam, in Germany, came and told us a lot of things about their traditions, food... 

Since our town's main saint is Saint Martin, we learned that they have their own Saint Martin tradition, consisting of sharing Saint Martin croissants and having a parade to which kids bring in their homemade lanterns. After learning this, on 11th November, we made our own lanterns. You can see them in the presentation below.

HAPPY FAMILY DAY 2014!

Today, May 15th International Family Day is celebrated, so, to show our families how appreciated they are, in our bilingual Art lessons we made a little something for them. We made stained glass candle holders (they can be also used as flower vases).

We brought a glass jar to school (from jam, youghourt, ...). We cut some TISSUE PAPER into little pieces and made 4 different colour combinations. After that, we were ready. We took GLUE, spread it all over the jar and stick the tossue paper.

After the hard work (our hands became VERY STICKY!), we put them to dry. Meanwhile, we started making our family day cards. We drew our family using thumb prints.

Once they were dry, this is what we got :)

We wrapped them.

And took them home!

Well done, kids! I hope your families loved them! 

PS: HAPPY FAMILY DAY!

BLOOMING CREATURES FROM UNDER THE SEA

Hi kids! 

Here's the video with some of our under the sea spring creations!

Our mermen and mermaids are inspired by Picasso portraits. We used the "Roll a Picasso face" dice game (it was super fun and useful!). The we designed their bodies. Then we invented their personality, likes and dislikes and described them. We then used them to play "Guess who" (this mini project was related to our physical description lessons).

The submarines are inspired by Pop art patterns, lines and colours! Third graders decided the Beatles needed a new updated version of their yellow submarine.

DRAWING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

These days we are working on a Stop Motion animation. After making the storyboard, we started creating our characters (using plasticine, different kinds of paper, ...). One of the important things when creating a character for an animation is that it has to express, his gestures should talk. For this, we've been learning how to draw different facial expressions with this short presentation.

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS on PhotoPeach

We have also used the following printable activities and then we practised drawing different expressions.

OUR 2014 CALENDARS

As every year, we have made a calendar for our families. This year, 4th graders got inspired by jellyfish, the ocean creature they have chosent to study. We drew a group of jellyfish seen from a submarine window.

CHRISTMAS CARD DESIGNS

Hi there! 

Here you are the Christmas cards designs we presented to our town's Christmas card contest. The activity consisted of making a free Christmas card design. Some of you got inspired by some Christmas designs we saw and, surprisingly, many of you incorporated our "( months under the sea" school project into your drawings, creating images of a Christmas under the sea. Great job!