November 30th

Today in the wonderful world of art education, I observed several different projects. The fifth graders were completing their peacock drawings, the second graders were starting their house drawings and the third graders were working on drawing animals up close. The fifth graders peacocks turned out rather extraordinary, and K. Rob and I discussed how sometimes when you take such a simple project the students can really bring it to a whole new level. The second grade house project was a little difficult for the majority of the students because they do not yet understand how 3-d boxes are formed and how lines must be placed to make volume. However they did get very creative and many of them created very detailed scenes. The third grade animal drawing proved to be quite a challenge. For many students they did not understand that when you found a picture of an animal you were to 'zoom' in on that animal, not draw the entire scene in the picture. However regardless of their composition many of them turned out really well.