9:20-10:05
10:10- 10:55
11:00- 11:45
11:50- 12:35
12:45- 1:25
1:55- 2:40
2:45- 3:45
For the “Intervention” Literacy Block in which the whole school is participating, I am working with select students currently from the third grade for Art Based Literacy Projects and we are making books. Our first project is a “biome”... an accordion fold book with distinct foreground, middle ground, and background made with embellished paste paper collaged in an Eric Carle style for the Art part. The subject of our book is a Science/Social Studies focus of an environment with soil
types, plants, and animals of that region.
Research about their individual choices will be summarized
in text using third grade vocabulary from the Standard
Course of Study. This project will overlap the NCSCOC in Art, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts.
The two groups meets alternating days Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday from 12:45- 1:25 pm
Art Schedule:
Fifth Grade Art Club:
accordian fold
books in progress
chest of drawers in red
Here are the Battle of the Books and the Art Club outside the Norman Rockwell exhibit last year.
Several field trips will highlight our art club studies: February will jump start our focus on kenetic art with a trip to Duke University’s Nasher Art Museum to see their exhibit of stabiles and mobiles of Alexander Calder. I am looking forward to seeing the excitement in our students‘ faces this art can inspire. In April, the North Carolina Museum of Art is featuring a collection of artist/author Ashley Bryan. Forest View has a connection with him through Rosemarie Gulla and he has visited us in years past. This will be part of a culminating activity for the Battle of the Books Club with the Art Club during a whole school study of his books and illustrations here in Durham. Thanks to our FV parent and NCMA educator Ashley Weinard for coordinating this. Ashley Bryan’s style of flat areas of color is very appealing to our students and assuredly, they will enjoy sampling his style.
