Art_Still Life & Shared Darks and Lights

The girls built their own 3D forms: rectangular prism, sphere, cylinder, and cube. Then they designed their own form combining shapes to build a pitcher or a vase. They arranged them to create a still-life in the style of the Italian painter Morandi. After doing a few studies of the shared lights and darks across the forms in charcoal and ink, they painted the still-life mixing tints and shades of acrylic. 

Morandi reference...

Building 3D forms...

 

Example of using value to create form...

Completed works...

Hour of Code

This week, your daughter participated in the Hour of Code.  “The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries” (hourofcode.com).  We use this as an introduction to the programming your daughter will be doing throughout the year.  Learning the basics of programming reinforces problem solving and logic skills.

In third grade, students had a choice of Flappy Birds or Mindcraft.  Both of these are challenging and serve as a great introduction to the Lego WeDo robotics and programming we do later in the year.

If you would like your daughter to explore more at home, use this link.  Please note, different activities run on different devices and are appropriate for various ages.