My Favorite fifth grade project!- Mrs. Trammell's Class

Today was the last day I have with a particular fifth grade class. With the exception of our foil figures (which went home yesterday) they are taking home all of their 2-D art projects today. I was out most of the year and unfortunately most of these lesson were done with a sub, but planned by me.

I went around the room and took a photo of each of their favorites ( a few I think I missed :( ). I showed them on the smart board how they could find my blog and their favorites. They just think it is so cool to have their art on line! I think this class had fun this week. The first of the week was rocky but it just got better and better.

Magritte Style Portrait

Lego Me done with sub

Zentangle

Tune of paint on her face! Love it. This student was one who came up to me and told me how much fun she had in art this week. Made my day!

Tissue paper background

Op art Hand

This was student was so proud of her art work, simply because it didn't look girly. She loved too everything we did this week. She a has a super attitude. 

Lego Portrait

Lego Portrait

Sandcastle, beach portrait

Love this idea! Very St. Patricks Day

This look like me usually with paint on my face. 

Kindergarten Pattern Zebras

This is one of my favorite lessons of the year. I got the idea from artsonia. I have created my own template of shapes the students cut out to create the shape of the zebra, except the head.  I pre cut those out of colored construction paper. This lesson requires some work before hand. Such as precutting shapes for head, stripes in two sizes for body and legs and yarn for mane and tail. My classes our 50 minutes, so it took two days. The first day we talk about pattern, I read them a book and we do a smart board activity together on simple patterns, Ab, ABC, AAB, ABB, etc. We used small beads for nostrils, for more of a mixed media look. 

Neon Animals Adaptations

This has been one of my favorite art lessons since I have been back. We have been talking all about NC zoo animals in art and how they are able to survive in their particular environment. I found a little lesson idea about animal adaptations, on the NC Zoo Website, that I used to start off with. See Lesson plan and attached worksheet I did. For more information about the North Carolina Zoo please go to:
http://www.nczoo.org/. Info about the activity analyzing animals on their site:  http://www.nczoo.org/education/EducatorResources/AnalyzingAnimals.pdf

I did get the idea for using Neon Colors from Smart Class blog, one of my favorite sites for teaching inspiration. Here is her link. http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2011/11/zebras-tigers-and-giraffes-oh-my.html

This lesson I created. I takes about 4 days. In my schedule I see the same fourth grade every day for a week, so this lesson takes about the entire week. Here is my lesson plan.
https://drive.google.com/a/jcsnc.org/file/d/0B0zDrpd0xD7Tcm9uUDlBX19LcWs/edit?usp=sharin

After we discussed and completed out worksheet/group activity students began their own animals drawings. I decided to open up the lesson with any animal, including zoo, farm, and pets. I did have several photos of animal portraits from the internet printed for students to look at. I was very particular about the animals, and chose only ones I thought would be easy to just draw the head of that would fill up an entire space with.
Here are just a few examples.

Panda

Fox

Cat

horse

tiger

tiger

lion- Please ignore flip. Blogger just wont turn it. 

Zebra

giraffe

tiger

giraffe

Rene Magritte Self Portraits

Rene Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist artist. "The Son of Man" is one of his most famous paintings. It is believed to be his self Portrait. It depicts a man with a apple unnaturally in front of his face. It makes the veiwer want to know what the man's face looks like. 5th graders created their own portraits with an object of their choice in front of their face. We discussed the life and work of Magritte and how he adds mystery to his paintings. Lesson plan included.
Artist Info:
https://drive.google.com/a/jcsnc.org/file/d/0B0zDrpd0xD7TdWlucGVqQjJUUHM/edit?usp=sharing

Lesson Plan Unit:
https://drive.google.com/a/jcsnc.org/file/d/0B0zDrpd0xD7TRjd1dEw2VGc2V0U/edit?usp=sharing

Mister Sea Horse Collage

This is my first post of the year! I had a baby and have had much time away from teaching. I am starting to now re blog with some lessons we have done already in the art room. This is one is a staple to my first grade curriculum. I love reading to my first graders, especially Eric Carl books. Not only is he an author but an artist. This is such a great lesson on color, as I introduce warm and cool colors. See my attached lesson for details:

https://drive.google.com/a/jcsnc.org/file/d/0B0zDrpd0xD7TaVhjS3FrMU9QWlU/edit?usp=sharing