Remote Art Learning
K-5 Remote Art Learning
Hello Alcott! Welcome Back! I can't wait to see everyone on Zoom, very soon!
🙂 Ms. Gordon
Your Independent/Asynchronous Art lessons will be posted here until we are all up and running on Google Classroom and See Saw.
Grades 3, 4 and 5: Click here for help logging onto Google Classroom.
Third Grade only: please email photos of your work to me at bgordonoconnor@concordps.org
Click on the link to find your Art Assignment:
Monday, 9/28: Ms. Knowles' Third Grade Class
Third Grades, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9/30, 10/1, and 10/2
Week of 9/21 All Third Grade Classes
Sept. 17th: Grade 3 Ms. McMahon
Sept 18th: Grade 3 Mrs. Hardiman
Starting on Sept. 10th:
Kindergarten: Week One Art
First Grade: Week One Art
Second Grade: Week One Art
Third Grade: Week One Art Third Grade only: please email photos of your work to me at bgordonoconnor@concordps.org
Fourth Grade: Week One Art
Fifth Grade: Week One Art
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Starting Week Two: Bring your art work to our Zoom meetings to share , and think ahead about one of these questions:
- What do you want us to notice?
- What was your challenge?
- What is the story?
- How did you make it?
As you know, in a normal year, we would sort out our art work on Portfolio Days at the end of art units during art classes, a few times during the school year. Since school has been closed, all of the artwork that was at school is still there in our class boxes--but not sorted into individual student portfolios. I will figure out a way to organize it for you, but I don't know when that will be. We will have to wait until the fall for all of your artwork to go home.
New this week, click on the links to see videos about these activities:
For the final week of this school year, I am posting some Mindfulness lessons. It might also be fun and relaxing to work on these projects over the summer!
- Javier Perez is an artist from Ecuador who creates illustrations by placing everyday objects on paper and drawing around them. Create your own found object illustration!
Texture is how something feels on it's surface. Every object has a texture. Some words that describe the texture of an object are smooth, rough, scratchy, bumpy.....try exploring different textures by creating rubbings of things in your home or yard....To make a rubbing, just use a piece of copy paper and place it on top of the object. Hold the paper still and rub a crayon or pencil over the top. Use the side of the crayon or pencil, not the tip. What do you see? Things to try: the bottom of shoes, tree bark, rugs or a large rock.
- Create a page or 2 of cool textures. (picture 1)
- Draw a picture and rub textures onto the picture to create different textures in different parts of your picture (picture 2)
- Create textured papers....then use them to make a collage (picture 3)
- Watch this video then try to make your own sculpture that balances....learn about gravity, balance and stability along the way.
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looking back on or dealing with past events or situations."our survey was retrospective"Similar:backdated, retroactive, ex post facto, backward-lookingnoun1. an exhibition or compilation showing the development of the work of a particular artist over a period of time."a Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective"
- Draw a picture of a windy day:
- How can you show that it’s windy in a drawing?
- What moves in the wind?
- What happens to people’s hair and clothing?
- What happens to trees, grass, and flowers?
- What else blows around in your neighborhood?
2. Make an observation drawing.
Observation drawing is always about looking. Whatever you choose to draw, you always have to start by asking yourself these questions:
- What parts do you see?
- What shapes do you see?
- What shape will you draw for each part?
3. What else can you build out of recycled materials?
- How can you use cardboard tubes, pieces of egg cartons, and corrugated cardboard to build a sculpture?
- How will you make your sculpture stable?
- How can you use tape, markers, index cards, hole-punchers, post-it notes...whatever office supplies your parents will let you use, to add to your sculpture?
Building animals, castles, towns, or cities :
- What can you use to build a bird or a butterfly?
- What parts do you need to make?
- How will you attach the parts?
- How can you make your sculpture fly?
- How can you make moving parts?
- What can you use to build a castle?
- What parts do you need to make?
- How will you attach the parts?
- Will you make any moving parts?
- Will you add people or animals?
- What can you use to build a town or a city?
- What parts do you need to make?
- How will you attach the parts?
- Will you make any moving parts?
- Will you add people or animals?
Spring Drawings: I have been taking long walks on most of these beautiful days. Sometimes I record the bird sounds on my phone, because I love to listen to them. Listen to these birds, and watch this video. What signs of spring are you noticing where you live?
- Draw a picture of a butterfly or a bird:
- What parts does it have?
- How can you draw the parts one shape at a time?
- What shapes and lines can you draw to decorate the wings?
- Draw a picture of a garden:
- Will you draw flowers and plants?
- Vegetables?
- Will you draw any insects or animals in your garden?
- Draw a picture of a castle:
- What parts, shapes and lines will you draw?
- Will your castle have doors, windows or towers?
- Make it look real or imaginary.
- How will you show that it’s Spring in your drawing?
- Draw an imaginary city or town:
- What will you include in your town?
- What shapes and sizes of buildings will you draw?
- How will you show that it’s Spring in your drawing?
As always, you can continue to find inspiration from the previous weeks art ideas if you prefer....Keep up the good work!
- If you can go outside, watch this video by artist Pontus Jansson then create your own rock balancing land art.
- If observation is your thing.....try drawing a kitchen appliance, like a mixer, coffee maker, juicer or another house hold tool like a vacuum cleaner.
- Look at and draw a picture of your favorite shoes, think about the outside lines, the inside shapes and how you can draw the different textures you see.
- Set up a group of stuffed animals or toys and make an observation drawing of what you see.
- If imagination is more your thing.....after you draw your appliance or tool....make it come alive -give it some human features! Is it friendly? Angry? Happy? Sad? How might it be interacting with other appliances or objects in your house? for example: Is the vacuum chasing dust "bunnies" around the house? Maybe you can make a whole book of the adventure....some simple folded books , More Bookmaking Directions
Public Art Project At Home
I have been taking long walks around my neighborhood and on a bike trail near my house, making sure I am at least 6 feet away from anybody else, of course! On my route I saw that someone had painted rocks and put them outside, near the sidewalk:
They really made me smile. And on another walk, I noticed someone had built this:
So I thought, what if Alcott kids could decorate rocks, or scraps of wood, or old flower pots, or even a piece of cardboard, with a positive, hopeful message to display outside, so everyone who walks by would see them? Then I thought, but kids might not have paint markers or waterproof paints at home. So I experimented a bit, and found out that I could write and draw on rocks with a Sharpie marker, with crayons (white seemed to work best on my rock), and with nail polish. (Ask permission for that one!)
What kind, positive, hopeful messages can you make to display outside? If enough kids do it, Alcott could create a physically distant, visually connected public art project in our Concord and Boston neighborhoods.
- Do a scavenger hunt with your family: look for different colored objects. Arrange them into a color wheel, take a photo.
Draw a picture of:
- Your family
- You playing inside or outside
- What you see when you look out the window
- Make an observation drawing of your favorite toy something else at home
- Build something with Legos or blocks, etc., draw a picture of what you built
- Fold paper to make a book, draw the story of your day, some simple folded books , More Bookmaking Directions
- Create a comic strip
- Invent a superhero, make a comic strip about your superhero
- Draw a self-portrait
- Draw a self-portrait, making a funny face in the mirror
- Do an observation drawing of someone else in your family
- Do an observation drawing of your pet
Other Options:
- If you have modeling clay at home, build a sculpture, then draw a picture of it, or just send a photo.
- If you have a recycle bin/storage at home, use empty egg cartons, tubes, boxes, etc., and masking tape to build a sculpture. Draw a picture of it, or just send a photo.
- Use an empty box to build a place, scene, home, story...like we did for our Community Boxes at Alcott. You can draw on any kind of paper, cut out the shapes and parts, and use any kind of tape or glue to build the parts and put it together.
- Make hats, masks, costumes out of paper, paper bags, dress-up clothes...draw self-portraits in your costume.
- Make paper finger puppets, by wrapping a strip of paper around your finger, and attaching paper parts to it. Use tape. Do a finger-puppet show for your family.
- Use a phone, iPad, or laptop to make a video of a finger -puppet show.
- If you can go outside where you live: choose a tree or a plant or a branch. Draw or photograph it every day. See what changes you begin to notice. Save your drawings or photos for a week. Make your drawings into a book, or make your photos into a digital book, slide show, or movie.
- If you can go outside, build a Fairy House! Take a photo or draw a picture of it.
Grades 3-5:
- Write a movie script! Use a phone, iPad, or laptop to make a movie! Actors could be all the siblings who are at home, or stuffed animals, or pets...
- Use a phone or an iPad to take a series of photos. Give yourself a category, for example, faces, people, hands, square things, red things, etc. Write a poem about your images.
- Try making a Stop Motion Animation movie using an app like Onion Cam2. I figured out how to use an egg carton for a phone stand:
