Fire Friday was a lot of fun this semester! Every class 1st through 8th completed a Fire Friday passion project and presented to the class. Primary grades could create a large-scale painting of anything they wanted that they cared about or were excited about, while upper grades could create video, digital, 3D or 2D art. Above are a few examples across the grades and below is a 6th grade stop motion video inspired by The Maker stop motion film by Zealous Creative.
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In 6th grade art, we used clay to make circular looms for a weaving project. We focused on different textures to be made with different techniques in our clay like scoring or carving. Students then used yarn to create their weaving in the middle.
I recently got a Google Cardboard viewer for use in the classroom and it has been quite awesome so far! We use the cardboard viewer to visit new places that feature in our artworks. 2nd grade visited outer space and the northern lights during two science and art integration projects. 6th grade followed the work of an artist from New York, while 7th and 8th grade experienced winter landscapes in immersive photospheres after their Narnia inspired project. I plan to have other projects relate to places we can visit through Google Cardboard like the Great Barrier Reef and New York City.
Maple Grove also had the AMAZING opportunity to have Google Expeditions come visit for a day. Google Expeditions brings class sets of devices and cardboard viewers for classes to go on shared virtual field trips all over the world and beyond. Kids were able to have immersive experiences of places ranging from the Great Pyramids of Giza to the surface of the moon to the bottom of the ocean. Most art students were able to experience Google Expeditions either during our class or with their homeroom teacher. Kindergarten art class had their first sculpting experience this past week! They used Model Magic clay to sculpt a big-mouthed goldfish using the pinch pot technique. They painted and decorated them with scales to finish the project. All in all it was a ton of fun!
Here's the amazing artwork done by 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students for the Dreaming Zebra Charity Art Auction. Students worked with acrylic paint and on canvas for the first time using a variety of brushes. They chose their own location from the Pacific Northwest, planned and sketched their landscape and finally painted it on canvas.
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