Totem Poles

Fourth graders learned about the origin of totem poles, their purpose and discussed stylized art.   They played a game where they had to guess which animal the stylized image was representing.  They were quite good!  Students were then split up into teams and discussed what they wanted their totem pole to represent.  Each student was in charge of creating one section of the totem pole. I was able to display some on actual poles throughout the school!  I was impressed at how creative the fourth graders were!

Animal Masks

Kindergartners read the book “Chicken Little” by Ed and Rebecca Emberley.  It has great illustration of various animals on a journey to protect themselves from the falling sky.  Kindergartners were given animal mask templates and got to use various goodies on their mask! Items such as sequins, buttons, beads, marker, yarn, stickers, crayon, feathers, etc were used to make these masks one of a kind!

Line Design Animals

Sixth graders were allowed to choose any animal they wanted and had to draw a simplified version of it.  They then filled it in using ink patterns.  Students then used watercolor to finish their piece.

Textured Fantasy Animals

First graders read the book “The Mixed Up Chameleon” by Eric Carle.  We learned the vocabulary word texture and experimented with texture rubbings.  They had to use their texture rubbings to create different animal features and glue them together to make a fantasy animal.