Color

Today, we are beginning a unit on COLOR.

The students watched a Brain Pop video and had to complete a packet of worksheets to reinforce the information.

 BP: COLOR

Next:

• Color Wheel worksheet
• Warm/ Cool Landscape drawing: Divide your paper in two. Draw the same landscape twice. Color one side using warm colors (red, orange, yellow) and one side using only cool colors (blue, green, violet). 
• Color Schemes Line/Shape Project: Start in a corner and draw one squiggly line, to fill the whole page, never overlapping and ending where you started. Then draw three or four geometric shapes on top of your line. They should fill most of the page. Color each shape (using a color scheme) inside each section created by the lines. Outline in black. 

One Point Perspective

11/5-11/15: One Point Perspective

First the students practiced 1pt perspective with worksheets. These worksheets used basic shapes, letters and boxes to help understand using perspective with real life objects. The project assignment consisted of 3 options, all using one point perspective. The students could choose from drawing a landscape from the front view, a cityscape from birds eye view or "winding" one point perspective.

Student Work:

Dia de Los Muertos

"El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a Mexican celebration, is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. On this day in Mexico, the streets near the cemeteries are filled with decorations of papel picado , flowers, candy calaveras (skeletons and skulls), and parades.

It is believed that the spirit of the dead visit their families on October 31 and leave on November 2.
In order to celebrate, the families make altars and place ofrendas (offerings) of food such as pan de muertos baked in shapes of skulls and figures, candles, incense, yellow marigolds known as cempazuchitl (also spelled zempasuchil) and most importantly a photo of the departed soul is placed on the altar."

(Borrowed from this website)

Students decorated skeletons and cut tissue paper to make "papel picado"; with these we decorated our hallway!

Pictures to come.