THIRD+GRADE

[|Third Grade Visual Arts State Core]
 * Week of March 1st-** accordian animals


 * Week of February 22nd-** Warm and cool color houses


 * Week of February 15th-** Illustrate stories


 * Week of February 8th-** Nutrition poster


 * Week of February 1st**- Painting our food chain models with acrylic paint


 * Week of January 25th-** Food chain models using clay


 * Week of January 18**th- Furry habitat creatures


 * Week of January 11th-** Mosaic of Abraham Lincoln


 * Week of January 4th-** Upside down drawings of Igor Stravinsky

This will take two weeks. They will need to leave their papers in the break-out rooms to dry because they will be putting glue on them.
 * Week of December 14th-** Winter birch painting. This will be a seasonal lesson so only assistance will be needed. Lesson can be found here: http://deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com/2009/03/multi-media-winter-birch-trees.html


 * Week of December 7th-** Figure drawing lesson


 * Week of November 30th-**Northwest Indian transfer drawing masks


 * Week of November 16th-** We will be working on a geometric drawing project. The students will need markers and rulers.


 * Week of November 9th-** We will be learning about the Traveling Sketchbook Project as well as doing an art criticism lesson.


 * Week of November 2nd-** We will be making Moon mosaics using torn paper.

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 * Week of October 26th-** Dia De Los Muertos! We will be doing printmaking as we talk about the day of the dead and watch this little video clip!


 * Week of October 19th-** Geometric shape robots! We will be creating robots out of the geometric shapes we are studying in math.


 * Week of October 12th-** We will be discussing the planets and then doing an outerspace resist project.

Mrs. Liljenquist will have art on Monday as a make-up session for the art she missed on Labor Day
 * Weeks of September 28th to October 5th-**

We will be discussing Andy Warhol's soup cans and other concepts in connection with our visual culture. [] Lesson is found here.


 * Week of September 21st**- We will be discussing light in connection with a prism and looking at the various colors that it creates. Then we will be reviewing the color wheel and doing a project that connects with it. Students will need a ruler, pencil, art boards and their crayons.


 * Week of September 14th-** we will be doing a project on observational drawing. Students will need their art boards and a pencil ready for when I come to class.

Supplies needed: oil pastels and black paper
 * Week of September 7th-**Heat and light connection with science- Color theory lesson on warm and cool colors. Students will create a drawing using warm and cool colors


 * Week of August 31s**t- Students will continue working on their portfolios as well as adding color. If they do not finish their portfolios, please give them a little time in class to finish.

Week of August 24th- Art Procedures "A line is a dot that went for a walk" Activity on outside of portfolio in crayon. Music will be used in class

Week of August 31st- Finish Portfolios!