Alexandra
Caitlin
Kiara
Lauren
Gardner Public Schools
Art Department
Prospect Street School Art Gallery
2001-2002
The following are selected pieces of artwork by students in
grades 1, 2, and 3.
Please click on the thumbnail picture below to see an enlargement.
Ruth Suyenaga, Art Teacher
Lesson on symmetry
-Hmong stitchery design
The
Hmong are a group of people from the country of Laos in Southeast Asia. Many
people of Hmong ancestry live in central Massachusetts. The appliqué stitchery
created by Hmong women is a beautiful art form.
Third
graders learned about the symmetrical design of Hmong stitchery by folding a
piece of tracing paper into eighths. They
then drew straight, curvy and zigzag lines similar to an example of the
stitchery that was shown to them. After tracing the design onto the rest of the
paper, they used Prismacolor colored pencils in 3-4 colors of their choice to
color in the design.
This
lesson is part of a sequential curriculum that reinforces the concept of
symmetry in art and math.
Standards:
2.1
Color; 2.5 Symmetry
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Alexandra |
Caitlin |
Kiara |
Lauren |
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Sean |
Trevor |
Trisha |
Tyler |
Drawing
from the imagination
This
a sample from a lesson where students drew pictures using their imaginations.
Art Standards: 1.1 Variety of media; 2.2 Line, 2.6 Composition, 3.3 Memory and imagination
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Nicholas |
Lesson
on observation
This
is a skill that is important in art and in science. While looking carefully at a
stuffed hawk on loan from teacher Dave Beauregard at the Gardner High School
Biology Department, first and second graders learned how to draw the bird using
lines and shapes.
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Lauren |
Lesson
on paper-weaving
Students
learned the technique of paper weaving, creating a repeat pattern. By
experimenting with curvy rather than straight lines, they created an interesting
effect.
Art Standards: 1.2 Variety of media; 2.2 Line; 2.4 Pattern
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Alex |
Lesson
on Martin Luther King, Jr.
In conjunction with
the annual celebration put on by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition, in which
the students in Gardner, Fitchburg, and Leominster participate, the third
graders made posters about the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. In
this interdisciplinary lesson with the Guidance Department, the students learned
about MLK before creating the posters in art class.
Art Standards: 2.2 Line,2.6 Composition, 10 Interdisciplinary learning
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Jeffrey |
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