4th grade Radial Symmetry

In 4th grade we've been talking about symmetry and creating radial symmetry with the letters of our names.  This video describes the process.

      Our square designs will be used for our Square 1 Art fundraiser.  

While the students worked they got to play games on the website from the Brooklyn Children's Museum.  They have awesome games for understanding pattern and symmetry.

After the tracing was complete we discussed color properties and each student chose a color scheme for their design.  When they finished they worked on a color theory worksheet.

 

Olympic Zentangles

I love the Olympics! We were already in the middle of other projects but we took time to enjoy a few Olympic highlights and use the pictograms as a model for our figures.  The Zentangle is very "in" right now, but I will admit once you get started it is highly addicting!

The look of LOVE

I've been on a modern art kick this year and I love to teach the kids about art that I want to learn more about too. I saw a friend of mine posing in front of Robert Indiana's love sculpture and in my research I found this great lesson from http://www.useyourcolouredpencils.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/love.html. We looked at different sculptures and prints of the Love artwork and Indiana's recent 2008 artwork Star of Hope.  We discussed other words with a positive message we could use.  I already had square paper and taught the students how to make, as they called it, "fancy" block letters.

Fall Leaves

   I had to be out recently and for my sub plans I wanted to leave something fun so I came up with these easy leaf drawings and they look beautiful! On long rectangle papers (using up my scraps!) students used white crayons to draw leaves. Then they colored these in warm colors with markers and it's okay if you go outside the lines because it is hard to see the white crayon.  Next just watercolor with plain water and push the water around.