6th grade Maps

6th Grade are putting the finishing touches on their maps! Credit for this lesson goes to my favorite place for lessons, Deep Space Sparkle! I even burned the edges a little to give them a worn effect! Check out how they turned out!!

Dinosaur fossil textures

Kindergarten moved to their next element of art, texture! We watched a short video about Texture and then a brief disscussion about fossils, what they were and how they become fossils. Then we talked about the different textures we would be using, clay, dinosaur bones, and paint. I gave them a piece of clay the size of a baseball on a paper plate they I had ready beforehand so it's easier to hand out. Then they wedged the clay or pounded it with their fists to about the size of a pancake. This was tricky for some students who pounded it to much so the clay was too thin. I gave them each a plastic dinosaur that they pressed into the clay. I ordered them off of amazon. I carved their initials on the back for them. Then after a fired them we painted them with a brown tempera wash and then I wiped the excess off with a sponge to reveal their skeletons!

6th Grade 1 point perspective farm landscapes

6th Grade did really well on their one point perspective farm scenes! We discussed foreground, middle ground and background. They drew their scarecrows first in the foreground, then drew their horizon line with the their vanishing point and added crop rows with a crop for the middle ground. A barn or some sort of building was added in the background. We used watercolor crayons for color.

Credit: http://afaithfulattempt.blogspot.com/2010/12/one-point-perspective-autumnal.html