Year 1 Language A, Humanities and Art

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Today’s task was to choose two of today’s photos (self-portraits) and note how the pose (stance, gaze and facial expression) use of color, objects, and setting/background help to reveal a mood and tone and expose a truth about the subject.

Here are today’s self-portraits-

backgrounds and words pics

Here is the notes sheet

Examining Portraits 5.3

Today we examined the objects included in several portraits.

Here are the portraits we examined

symbolic objects

and the form we used to record our thinking

Object Symbolism

Today we examined COLOR in class!

Color Video on You Tube

we played with color arrangements

color scheme designer

We examined the symbolism of color

meaning of colors

symbolism of color in Icons

This is the page we completed for our DAN

Color Day

Here are some art resources

Yesterday, we examined pose, facial expression and direction of gaze in a photograph.

We examined 5 photographs-

here they are:

EXAMPLE self portraits- gaze, facial and pose

While examining the photos we took notes on this form. The bottom part was used as an exit slip.

Portraits GAZE, FACIAL AND POSE

caste system game

caste system game

Paragraph building exercises

Paragraph practice

Valentine’s day is a big  deal at quite a few of our feeder elementary schools. Students have been asking me if we could celebrate Valentine’s day here. I decided to put an IB spin on Valentine’s day. It is our day of CARING festival. We will have 2 in class awards assemblies during Humanities classes. Students will choose names today any each student will present their chosen student with an award tomorrow.

Each student will create an award card with title, name, date and minimum 2 sentence explanation. The awards will be given out on Tuesday.

benchmark

It has been a while since I have updated the narrative on this blog. So here goes…

The bee students have been hard at work, saving swarms, selling buttons, making movies and making seed bombs.

Here are some links to the movies:

Reporter Jim and the Teacher

Bee Green Movie

Bee Movie 2

LANGUAGE A

Students have been hard at work completing their draft of their persuasive letter. Today students completed their second bench mark test in class. Tomorrow we will enter in our answer choices on data director.  We started our reading groups.

Additionally, we had a presentation from the Chinese Historical Museum on Ancient Chinese Science and Technology.

HUMANITIES

We have been preparing for the upcoming Photography exhibition. Students have been sharing out their independent research projects on an ancient historical figure.

This is the template for your artist statement for the upcoming photo exhibition on Tuesday, March 13th from 5-7:30 at the North Park Theater.

Here are the specifics- Fill out the Template using 12 point Times font. Bold face the title and your name.

Name

Age

Title of photo or series

Teacher

Year

Bio as an artist, influences

Statement about your work- what were you trying out? What was your process?

If your work is a series, explain how your photos go together.

Explain why you chose to share this/these photos.

Share your knowledge of photography and how the principles or rules are applied in this photo. (I.e. talk about the composition of your work, use of light, lines, color, rule of thirds, vantage point…)