Gardner Public Schools

Gardner Public Schools

Art Department

Waterford Street School Art Gallery

2003-2004

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, 2002-2003, and 2001-2002.

Please click on the thumbnail picture below to see an enlargement.

Ruth Suyenaga, Art Teacher

Learning about Chinese New Year dragon

In this multicultural and interdisciplinary lesson, students viewed a video on the way Chinese New Year is celebrated in New York’s Chinatown. They studied prints and pictures of dragons and used their imagination to draw and paint their own dragon.

Standards: 1.1 Variety of materials, 2.1 Color, 2.3 Texture, 2.4 Shape, 3.2 Abstraction, 3.3 Memory and imagination, 8 Concepts of style-historical periods, cultures and genres, 10 Interdisciplinary learning (social studies and art)

Austin

Brendan

Brianna



*Mina*	Nicholas	*Peter*

Steven

Kaitlyn

Stephanie

Lesson on portraits

After viewing portraits painted by the Masters, second graders examined their own facial features in individual mirrors. Using these observation skills, they drew these self-portraits.

Art Standards: 1.3 Art vocabulary; 2.2 Line; 2.4 Shape; 3.1 Direct observation; 5.0 Critical response; 5.2 Classifying art into categories; 5.3 Describing differences and presenting a personal response


*Joshua*	*Rebecca*	*Rebecca*

Lesson on color mixing, types of lines and shapes

Using tempera paint, students learned about mixing primary colors and painting shapes. Some of them then drew straight, zigzag, and curvy lines on top of the shapes.

Art Standards: 1.1 Variety of media; 2.1 Color; 2.2 Line; 2.4 Shape; 2.5 Pattern; 2.6 Repetition/Composition

Gabrielle

Lindsey

Eva

Lesson on observation

While observing a real sunflower, first and second grade students drew it, colored it with craypas, and painted the background with Alphacolor cake tempera. They used curving lines and shapes.

Art Standards: 1.1 Variety of media; 2.2 Line; 2.4 Shape; 2.6 Composition

Jack

Melanie

Rebekah

Stephanie

Lesson on drawing animals

Second graders learned about living things and their habitats in science class. In art class, they learned to draw animals by observing the curvy, straight and zigzag lines and outlined the shapes with their fingers first. They then did a contour drawing of the animal, using Prismacolor color pencils and learning about blending colors with this medium.

Art Standards: 2.2 Line, 2.4 Shape, 10 Interdisciplinary learning

Science Standards: 7 Life Science: living things and their surroundings

Kaitlyn

Nicolas

Paige

Rebekkah

Todd

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