Students shared what they knew about castles and then we looked a a short PowerPoint on them. The students got so excited when they realized the castles were built of all the forms we just discussed! I taught them how to make simple forms and attach them to their "land". Students could choose from several colors, but many preferred their castle to be the color of a "real" castle. They all started with a cube and got creative with their cylinders, cones and rectangular prisms. They then added paper details like moats, draw bridges that actually function, torches in the castle, catapults, princes, princesses and knights. They became architects and problem solvers! I have seen many innovative and creative solutions for making draw bridges actually work in the last three years! A few castles had even had zip lines this year, but then the students decided a real castle probably wouldn't have had a zip line!
After making snowmen in third grade we moved on to castles! I've taught this lesson to my third graders for the last three years and it is one of their all time favorites. We crossed over into the realms of math, science and social studies. They reviewed geometric solids: cubes, cylinders, cones and rectangular prisms and made observations on how these forms were different from shapes. The students studied the square shape in my hand and then they made a list of everything they observed about it. They did the same with other shapes and the forms, and then did some comparing and contrasting between them.
Students shared what they knew about castles and then we looked a a short PowerPoint on them. The students got so excited when they realized the castles were built of all the forms we just discussed! I taught them how to make simple forms and attach them to their "land". Students could choose from several colors, but many preferred their castle to be the color of a "real" castle. They all started with a cube and got creative with their cylinders, cones and rectangular prisms. They then added paper details like moats, draw bridges that actually function, torches in the castle, catapults, princes, princesses and knights. They became architects and problem solvers! I have seen many innovative and creative solutions for making draw bridges actually work in the last three years! A few castles had even had zip lines this year, but then the students decided a real castle probably wouldn't have had a zip line!
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When paint is involved, we dial up the excitement level. I wish I could say this happens in the art room, but I am on a cart and in the the rooms of classroom teachers. It's tough to hold the excitement to a low roar while attempting to keep some semblance of order and cleanliness in another teacher's room. I set up 3 stations for copper, silver, and gold metallic paint while the students patiently waited on the carpet. They went to town painting their papers and using the texture scrapers. We had controlled chaos while each child carefully carried each painted sheet outside the room to the drying rack. The next week students studied the textures in their art and added marker lines and shapes within the texture. Let the weaving begin! We had so much fun crumpling our paper to make even more texture and then wove our masterpieces! Only photographed one for some reason, but they looked fabulous lining the walls.
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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