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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jun 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from May 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
'The Color Tree', by Denise Bennett Minnerly, is a fantasy story about a boy flying by balloon onto a colorless landscape--all colorless except for re ...
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from May 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Music inspired these fun underwater creations. While we were playing fun aquatic songs like 'Under the Sea', by The Little Mermaid, students drew in ...
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
We focused our attention on cubism for this lesson. Pablo Picasso's Cubist-style painting, 'The Three Musicians' was used as the means for this proje ...
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
For this project, we studied Henna designs. Henna is a form of body adornment similar to a tattoo--only temporary. These designs are painted on the ...
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students used stencils to overlap shapes. After that, they created designs and patterns in each shape to fill every space. Viola!
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
John James Audubon is known for his adventurous attempt to illustrate every bird in America. A bright and colorful bird we all love is the peacock--a ...
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Wayne Thiebaud is a famous American pop artist who is best known for his iconic still lifes of all-American food and producst, such as cakes, pies, ic ...
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
We read the story, 'Molto's Dream' by Raoul Krischanitz. It is a great story about friendship--and with it...fun hot air balloons! To connect with t ...
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from Apr 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
www.mrpicassohead.com is a website where you can create your own 'Picasso' style face. I was inspired by this and had the students draw their creatio ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students studied the Elements of Art and designed a creative composition visually describing each word. The Elements of Art include: Line, Shape, Col ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
As a class we visited www.mrpicassohead.com. This is a website where you can create your own 'Picasso' style face. Students printed their creations ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
To continue to emphasize warm colors (red, orange, and yellow) and cool colors (green, blue, and purple), we designed our own kites focusing on these ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Minnie Evans is a North Carolina artist. Having never finished the 6th grade, she also never took a formal art lesson. Her creations are inspired by ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Minnie Evans is a North Carolina artist. Having never finished the 6th grade, she also never took a formal art lesson. Her creations are inspired by ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students used stencils to overlap shapes. After that, they created designs and patterns in each shape to fill every space. Viola!
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
The Eric Carle exhibit is currently being displayed in the cafeteria. As the Seahorses are apart of this display, these images will be posted later o ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
The Eric Carle exhibit is currently being displayed in the cafeteria. As the Ladybugs are apart of this display, these images will be posted later on ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Paul Klee's 'Castle and Sun' inspired this project. The castle he created was made entirely out of geometric shapes. We used shape patterns to build ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
As a 3D project, we decided to create abstract sculptures. Using only a coat hanger wire, a wooden block and pantyhose---we got these masterpieces! ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
For our clay project, we decided to create unique clay fish! This focused on hand building and creating a pinch pot (which is now the body of the fis ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
For our clay project, we decided to create unique clay fish! This focused on hand building and creating a pinch pot (which is now the body of the fis ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
All about Eric Carle!--an amazing author and illustrator of children's books. We read 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and created our own hungry caterp ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
We observed and discussed Vincent Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. The students had the freedom to express and create their own flowers and vase design with ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Paul Klee's 'Castle and Sun' inspired this project. The castle he created was made entirely out of geometric shapes. We used shape patterns to build ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
One of the main characteristics of Folk Art is that it is made by untrained artists, so for this lesson I encouraged students to draw and paint with a ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
We observed and discussed Vincent Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. The students had the freedom to express and create their own flowers and vase design with ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Claude Monet was famous for his water lilies and his Impressionistic style. We looked at many of his paintings the included ponds and lilies and chos ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
We observed and discussed Vincent Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. The students had the freedom to express and create their own flowers and vase design with ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
We observed and discussed Vincent Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'. The students had the freedom to express and create their own flowers and vase design using ...
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from Mar 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students studied Picasso and the styles of Cubism. We created a cityscape with the ideas of cubism in mind while also discussing right angles, obtuse ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students looked at the work of Vincent Van Gogh and were inspired to create their own landscapes with acrylic paint on an 8x8 canvas.
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
In honor of President's Day, we decided to work on portrait drawing. Gilbert Stuart is the famous artist who painted many of George Washington's port ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students learned all about weaving for this project! They crafted this from a cardboard loom and chose all of their colors and design.
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Inspired by, 'The Dot', by Peter Reynolds--students learned that art making can be as simple as creating a dot! Shapes were the focus of this lesson. ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students learned about 'cool' colors--blues and purples. We created a winter scene by using triangle patterns to make the trees, we added lines, and ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Inspired by Robert Indiana's 'LOVE' sculpture--we created our own Valentine inspired project--focusing on block letter making and pattern.
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Math and art go together! We talked about fractions as we divided a circle into 8 pieces. We discussed halves, quarters, and eighths! From the cut ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students took their name written in cursive and created a symmetrical image by transferring it to the opposing side. Creatures were then created from ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Clowns are always a fun subject for Kindergarten. It is a great way to enforce shape making and using lots of color. We drew our clowns first--givin ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
The object of this lesson was to introduce how to mix tints and shades, using black and white to make colors darker or lighter. The students chose on ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students learned about the artist Piet Mondrian and the use of his geometric placement of lines and primary colors. The project had a twist--creating ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
5th grade students studied drawing techinques including value, texture, and line quality. At random, they chose a one sided image of an animal--the a ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students created their own work of art inspired by "I and the Village" by Marc Chagall. We divided the paper into four sections and created a human a ...
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from Feb 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
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from Jan 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
'Lily Brown's Paintings' by Angela Johnson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis inspired this project. Lily loved to paint and created exciting worlds arou ...
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from Jan 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students learned about Australia and aboriginal art. We created 'dot' turtles using the design principle of repetition and pattern.
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from Jan 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Vincent Van Gogh was our artist of inspiration for this project. We viewed and discussed his famous artwork, 'Starry Night'. With that in mind, we ...
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from Jan 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Watercolor techniques were taught in this fun watercolor fish project! We elaborated on the idea of repeating a fish to create a 'school' of fish. T ...
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from Jan 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students learned about who Wassily Kandinsky was as an artist. We looked at Kandinsky's 'Farbstudie Quadrate' (color study of squares) which was crea ...
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from Jan 2009
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from Jan 2009, taught by Melissa Giglio
Students learned about the artist Paul Klee--all the bright colors and compositions he created truly inspired the children. They created a work of ar ...
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