Welcome Back Bethpage Students, We Have Missed You!
These first couple of weeks are basically start up weeks. We are getting used to being back in school from a very long vacation, and although things are a little different, we are still going to be making ART!
First Week: All grades is an Introduction to Art. We ask the question, “What is art?” And, “Whatdoes art mean to us personally?” “What art have you seen or made over the summer.”
Second Week: Grades K-2 we read the book “Ish”, by Peter Reynolds. This is a story about a young boy who loves to draw. He suddenly becomes embarrassed of his drawings after his older brother teases him. The little boy tries to draw but becomes frustrated and says he’s finished with drawing. When his sister picks up his drawings to hang in her room, the little boy becomes proud of his artwork once again and continues to do what he likes best, to draw. He learns that the art he creates does not have to be perfect. As long as his drawings look kind of like what he pictures that is good enough, they can be and ish picture. If he comes close to drawing some that resembles a tree, it will become tree-ish, etc.
Second Week: Grades 3rd-5th we talked about “Improving an Idea”. The lesson began with the study of Orville and Wilbur Wright who were the first to fly a man powered plane in the air for a period of time. We discussed the fact that the Wright brothers were not the first to have a vision for flying. Many people have dreamed of flying in the past. Leonardo da Vinci had an idea for flying from his papers and illustrations written way back in the late 1400s revealing his ornithopter.
We continued with the lesson by designing and creating our own airplane. We flew the planes outside and wrote data about the flight: how far the plane few and how straight of a flight. Between this week and next students are to continue developing ideas of how to improve their paper airplane. After creating a great plane, they are to decorate it with lines, pattern and color that we will do in art.
