Honor

My friends over at Coreessentials.org have character words, animals, and colors for each month.  One of their words was honor.  So with Veterans Day just around the corner I thought we would honor them and what they have done for our country.  

So my 4th graders work on a op art/one point perspective drawing. First we made the letters USA and work on making them 3d using one point perspective.  My students thought it was so cool that we could make letter 3d just using a point and some lines.  Then we had the stripes of the flag which we try to look like it blowing in the wind.  We do this by value of the white and red. Which I think they turned out great. 

Also to honor the Vets my 1st graders made soldiers.  We worked in painting big non geomectic shapes with different greens and browns to make camo.  After that we used that big paper and cut it up to make all the parts to the soldiers.  

So that is how we are doing honor this year to the Veterans. 

Update: To Honesty on square at a time

Ok know that you all have been sitting on pins and needle waiting for this update. Well here it is. Boy did this project take forever but they turn out So Grrrreat. I am so proud of my 4th graders. So if you read the other post you know what is going on. So I had my students write words on their portraits that were important to them and be really honest with themselves. We used markers to color it in. They were told to use analogous colors. Then we outline in sharpie. I think are amazing. I don't know what else to say. What do you all think. Let me know I live to hear what you all think. Thanks.

I am going to be a guest writer.

Hello everyone a few weeks ago I got an email asking me to be an guest writer at http://www.coreessentials.org/. They have different words character words for each month. They asked it i would have any art lessons that would work with there upcoming words. So I am working on that and will be posting some soon. So please stay tuned in to the mess. Over and out Mr. R.