Community Looks Like... Me!Lesson Theme: Community Looks Like Me: Who Am I?
Grade Level: Pre-K and K Time: 90 Minutes Lesson Overview: Individual people make up communities. In order for us to understand communities, we need to better understand ourselves. A really great way to do this is by creating self portraits. In this lesson, students will observe self portraits created by Pablo Picasso over his lifetime and identify what materials he used. Students will discuss what a community can look like, who is important within them and why people would create self-portraits. Students will create their own self-portraits out of model magic. These portraits can be real or abstract, but students will be given hand held mirrors that they can use to observe themselves. Essential Questions:
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Classroom Community Looks Like... Us!Lesson Theme: Community Looks Like Us: Who Are We?
Grade Level: Pre-K and K Time: 90 Minutes Lesson Overview: Individual students make up a classroom community. In order for us to understand our classmates, we need to work together. A really great way to do this is by creating a collaborative classroom artwork. Students will talk about murals and why people would create them. They will observe the “Peace Wall” mural by Jane Golden and Peter Pagast. Then, the class as a whole will create a large piece with the use of their handprints in paint. The piece will exemplify what we can accomplish by working together. Our different prints and use of color will come together to create a completed piece that we will display in the class for the rest of Saturday Art. Students will also create individual pieces to better comprehend how they make up the classroom community. Everyone plays a part in making the whole. Their individual pieces will include their handprint and 3 symbols that they create to represent what they like about the art classroom. Essential Questions:
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Relationships Look Like...Lesson Theme: Relationships Look Like… (Family, Animals, Friends, Nature, Objects)
Grade Level: Pre-K and K Time: 90 Minutes Lesson Overview: We have explored who we are, how we are a part of communities and our community in the classroom. We are going to explore what it means to be in relationship with other people, places and objects. This will deepen students’ understanding of how everything connects. Their relationships create the communities around them. Students will be watching a short film called, The Present, by Jacob Frey and Markus Kranzler. They will identify the relationships they see in the film and we will write these on the board. They will analyze watercolor paintings by Lourdes Sanchez and talk about what they see. Then, students will create their own series of watercolor paintings/drawings of the different people, places and objects they have personal relationships with. Essential Questions:
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Working Together Looks Like... The City of Oxford!Lesson Theme: Working Together Looks Like... The City of Oxford!
Grade Level: Pre-K and K Time: 90 Minutes Lesson Overview: As we have been learning, individuals make up communities. This week I want students to continue to look more big picture. We are going to be talking about how people have jobs in the city of Oxford. Different jobs usually reflect people’s different interests and different important roles. If everyone worked the same job, the city couldn’t run smoothly. Legos can represent individuals coming together to build something big. Students will be shown a short clip from the Lego Movie that shows city members waking up and going to work. Most of them are wearing outfits that relate to their job. After, we will view some of Laurie Simmon’s artwork and how it portrays different cities. Our project will consist of representing someone in their lives that they look up to. We are going to focus on what they wear for their job, whether that be a uniform or some kind of specific outfit. Students will create a lego from a brown paper bag. At the end of the lesson, I will pass out lego bracelets that I made for students to wear. They will also be given an extra lego bracelet to give to the person they created their puppet about. I will end by reinforcing that just like legos, when we work with other people (or stack/build legos) we can make something bigger and better than ourselves, a city that works together. Essential Questions:
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Exploring Looks Like...Lesson Theme: Exploring Looks Like...
Grade Level: Pre-K and K Time: 90 Minutes Lesson Overview: o continue to broaden our view of people and the world, we will be talking about traveling to different places. Exploring new places is important because it helps us understand new places, other people and the world as a whole. Students will be shown a clip from Cars 2 that shows Lightning McQueen and Mater traveling to Japan. I am going to have students identify where they are going, what kind of transportation they take to get to Japan and what they see when they arrive. We will write answers to these questions down after the clip and talk about how McQueen and Mater traveled together. Students will look at Karen Lynch’s artwork and talk about what they see. Our project will consist of creating a place that they have been before, would like to go to or a pretend place that they imagine. Students will utilize magazine clippings, cut paper, paint and miscellaneous objects to create their place. They will need to include their way of transportation, an object that was there and someone they were with. Students will also need to include themselves in their collage, so we will be taking a picture of them in front of a black background that will be printed and that they can glue on their piece at the beginning of next week’s lesson. Students will take a photo in front of the photo booth as well. Essential Questions:
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Movement Looks Like...Lesson Theme: Movement Looks Like...
Grade Level: Pre-K and K Time: 90 Minutes Lesson Overview: The class will begin with a freeze dance activity. Students will observe the statue of liberty and and talk about where we can find statues and why people would make them. We will look at sculptures by James Seaman and then students will create their own sculptures out of aluminum foil. They will choose a pose for their sculpture to be in. They will also choose a pose for themselves and be outlined on a big sheet of paper. Once they have been traced, students will decorate inside their outline what they have learned from Saturday Art. Essential Questions:
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