Liam

What is your favorite time of the day?

Art- Grade 1- Unit 4

How, why, and when do we work together to make art?

We found out that working together takes many social skills including compromise, cooperation, and good communication.  We worked together not just to create art, but also to investigate new art skills, brainstorm ideas for artworks, and evaluate our artworks.  Using the “Creative Cycle” helped us to record our process of art making each time we worked with a new group.  

Unit 4 Music: Animal Songs
My song is about a raccoon.  In my song the raccoon is running, climbing, jumping and sneaking.



Personal Histories

Where We Are In Place And Time

Butterfly Garden -What changes did we see?

Sharing the Planet

I wrote a report on Catfish.

I researched information and created a diorama to show the environment my sea animal lives in. 

Unit 3: Music and Drama - Express Yourself
During our music time, explored mime and music and how they connect to emotions.


Here I am showing the emotion sly with mime.

My group chose to create a piece of music using GarageBand.  Can you guess the emotion?

Art- Grade 1- Unit 3 How can I make connections between my emotions and my artistic creations?  During my 3rd unit in art, I explored ways of planning and creating abstract sculptures to express different emotional experiences from my life.  I used lines, shapes and colors that represented my feelings using a variety of art materials.  I also learned how to use mindfulness exercises to connect to my emotions using my mind and body.  Here are some examples of my art making throughout this unit of inquiry:

"This artwork is about Mr. Calm. In Mr. Calm's day, his friend was bothering him and he asked his friend to stop, he feels a bit calm. When he got home and he swings in a hammock, he feels medium calm. He had a long day at school and at home he rested in his bad, he feels very calm. Mr. Calm is kind of related to me because we both like to swing in a hammock and when I have a long day at school I usually rest at home in my bed also. I showed the emotion by using curved line, straight, orange, green and red."

My Diamante Poem

Calmness

Blue, Bright

Napping, Yawning, Swimming

Library, T.V, Book, Hammock

Writing, Thinking, Breathing

Big, Slow

Airplanes

By Liam

My Crazy Hair!

Shapes are everywhere!

Now we are extending our shapes investigation to 3D.

We have been exploring 2D Shapes. Look at the different shapes we found around our school.

Art- Grade 1- Unit 2

What inspires artists to create?  This is the question we asked in art this unit.  I chose a book that inspired me from the library.  Then I mapped out words, colors, lines, and shapes to describe my inspiration picture.  I used this plan to create an abstract glue and chalk artwork connected to my inspiration.  Here are some pictures of my art making process:

Music, Unit 2: Artistic Me

After choosing our picture for our inspiration, we thought about words that described our picture, words that said what the picture was doing and what was in the picture.  We then tried to give these words musical sounds.  Below is our composition that was inspired by our picture.  You can find the picture I chose in my music book.

COMMUNICATION

We found different ways that we can communicate to each other.

Unit 1 Music - Notating Rhythms

Our first unit was about learning music notation for rhythms.  After composing our own rhythms, we then collaborated to compose a new piece of music.  Here we are playing our piece of music.

Art- Grade 1- Unit 1

In art classes, we explored what an “art medium” is and which we preferred.  We investigated why an artist might use charcoal, watercolor, printmaking or clay when they make art.  I thought carefully about which art medium to use each class and why.  Here are some photos of my art making process throughout the unit.