At the end of the semester we held an art exhibition in the multi-purpose room that displayed the artwork that students in Brittany's class completed throughout our time at Polaris. In the Duration of the semester we completed three projects with our 2nd and 3rd grade students, the first one was working with printmaking techniques to develop stamps, the second were partner portraits then assembled into a paper quilt and the third was a pipe cleaner zoo using pipe cleaners to create 3D animal sculptures. The exhibition featured final projects from each lesson along with student sketchbooks featuring lesson ideation. Below are images of our students works in the exhibition.
After walking around the exhibition and having a chance to view all of their work over the semester our class returned to the classroom to reflect on the artwork created over the course of the semester. Below are images and quotes from our class reflection.
During the Exhibition students were asked to fill out a worksheet called the art sandwich where they were asked to give a compliment, wish and then a compliment. They had to fill this out for at least two other fellow classmates artwork. After completing the worksheet the class returned to the classroom and we had circle time where every student shared one kiss about the artwork they wrote about:
" I liked this portrait because the warm colors reminded me of the sunshine." "I liked this portrait because the hair had a lot of texture and that made it look like hair." " I Liked this print because putting prints on top of each other made it look cool!" This is an example of one wish from one wish stated by a student about an ideation portrait from one of her classmates: " I wish the eyes were a little more almond shaped because it would look more like eyes." |
After discussing kisses and wishes we asked the students which lesson was their favorite and why, we got the following responses:
" The portrait lesson was my favorite because I learned about warm and cool colors and got to work with watercolor!" " My favorite lesson was the pipe cleaner because I liked building animals!" " I liked the stamp because I had never done it before and it was fun!" |