3rd+Grade

===During the third grade year George Wolf students will rigorously sharpen their previously learned art techniques and terms through creative and fun projects. Focus will be on the student to slow down, take their time, and refine and improve their artistic skills and thought processes through projects and discussions. ===

=== Lessons will include drawing images from simple shapes, painting, global crafts, portraits, sculpture, mathematical integrations, and critical thinking activities. The students will also participate in classroom discussions, brain storming sessions, and observations of famous/historic artworks. ===

===The goals of my third grade curriculum are to build on the student's primary fine motor skills and prepare them for more difficult projects and art techniques the follow year. I also place importance on the student's confidence, as well as their improvement in problem solving and independent thinking techniques . ===

Third Grade Projects 2010 Sunset Silhouette Trees

Third grade observed and discussed the differences between __silhouettes __ and __shadows __. The students then looked outside our own classroom window to look at what the trees around George Wolf look like in the winter. Many students described the trees has having "fingers".

The students then used water color paint in either __cool__ or __warm __ colors to create a sunset. They then used an ink pen to add their tree silhouettes. I think the results are stunning! 

Georgia O'Keeffe Flower Paintings <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">The third grade viewed and discussed the paintings of __<span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">Georgia O'Keeffe __<span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">. They discovered that she liked to paint __<span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">animal bones __<span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> from the desert and <span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">__flowers__ <span style="color: #140e00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">very, very large and colorful. They also learned that Georgia O'Keeffe lived to be 98 years old!

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Check Out the Slide Show of Student Examples: media type="custom" key="5741399"

<span style="color: #158a45; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Fibers/Stitching Initials <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Third grade has completed their first <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">fibers <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">project. The students recieved a piece of <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">burlap <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">and drew their initial on it with a pencil. Next, the students used <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">yarn <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> and a plastic needle to create a stitched letter. The students learned that this technique was used many, many years ago by cultures in order to create clothing or other life necessities. By the end of the three weeks, the third grade was used to hearing me say: "Up and down, up and down, NOT around!" Enjoy a slide show of the results: media type="custom" key="5953817" align="center"