Anna
Ardelle
Brandon
Emily
Gardner Public Schools
Art Department
Waterford Street School Art Gallery
2001-2002
The following are selected pieces of artwork by students in grades 1, 2, and 3. If you would like to see the artwork of WSS students from other years, click on the following links: 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003.
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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Anna |
Ardelle |
Brandon |
Emily |
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Jonathan |
Lisa |
Sadie |
Spencer |
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Steven |
Tyler |
Thomas |
Lesson on symmetry
–Hawaiian quilt design
When
the missionaries from New England came to Hawaii, they taught the Hawaiians to
make quilts. The Hawaiians developed a type of appliqué quilting using motifs
of the flowers of the tropics, using brilliant colors.
Third
graders learned about the symmetrical design of the Hawaiian quilts.
Using patterns from traditional Hawaiian quilts, they folded and cut the
inner design, glued it to a background, and used Prismacolor colored pencils to
draw “stitches” around the flowers.
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; 10 Interdisciplinary Learning
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Angelique |
Anna |
Billy |
Bree-Ann |
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Chelsea |
Ivy Lee |
Kasey |
Laura |
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Nicholas |
Paige |
Ramito |
Steven |
Drawing
from the imagination
This
a sample from a lesson where students drew pictures using their imaginations.
The Mrs. Zlotnik depicted by this student was her teacher.
Art Standards: 1.1 Variety of media; 2.2 Line, 2.6 Composition, 3.3 Memory and imagination
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Eva |
