Activities for November 2018

November is here! During this month we are going to integrate Balance as one of the principles of design in our art work.  We are going to celebrate Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving by creating our own Leaf Mobile.  We are also going to work on more poster contests.

 Lessons

Lesson 1-4 / Dates

November 14 - November 21

Essential Question

How do you show a message through Art?

Visual Arts Standards

Big Idea: Critical Thinking and Reflection

VA.2.H.3.1- Describe connections made between creating with art ideas and creating with information from other content areas.

VA.3.H.3.1- Discuss how knowledge gained in the visual art classroom can serve as prior knowledge in other classrooms.

VA.4.H.3.1-Discuss how analytical skills and thinking strategies are applied to both art production and problem-solving in other content areas.

VA.5.H.3.1-Discuss how skills learned through the analysis and art-making process are used to solve problems in non-art areas.

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Correlated L.A. Standards

LAFS.2.RL.1.3/2.5/3.7, LAFS.2.RI.1.1/1.2/2.5

LAFS.3.RL.1.1/1.3/3.7, LAFS.3.L.3.4.a&d

LAFS.4.RL.1.1/1.3/3.7, LAFS.4.L.3.5c

LAFS.5.RL.1.1/1.3/3.7 LAFS.5.L.3.4a&c

Vocabulary (Click on links for definitions)

Genre:  n/a

Artistic Style:   Contemporary Art

Content/Meaning: Imaginary

Media/Technique: Drawing, Colored Pencils / Art Stix, Markers

Design Elements: Line, Shape, Color

Design Principles: Contrast

Other:  background, foreground, Visual Communication, content, composition, layout

Historical Art / Artist Reference

What is Visual Communications?

Visuals & Resources

1.     Visuals: Teacher samples

2.     Websites: Alexander Calder , Colorful Leaves 
3.     Video: Calder Inspired Mobiles

Activity

Create a Thankful Leaves Mobile

Materials

· White or Orange, yellow, brown papers various sizes

· Pencil

· Crayons

· Scissors

· Yarn

· Hole puncher

· Art Stix

Steps

1) Draw Leaf veins using a real leaf and crayons
2) Paint over with watercolors
3) Cut a huge main leaf

2) Draw and cut as many small leaves as you have reasons to be thankful for

3) Punch holes and thread the leaves to form a mobile

Enrichment Projects
Choose contest to enter: Authentic Assessments 

SDI Projects

Practice drawing lines and shapes and writing in cursive

Values Matter

Value of the Month

Click HERE to view a video about Citizenship

How can you display citizenship during art classes?

Reference: Values Matter