Birds

Essential Questions
How do we distinguish one bird from another?
What are signifiers and how do birdwatchers use them?
What can the silhouette of a bird tell us about it?
How do we use what we know about existing birds to invent our own birds?

Enduring Understandings
Students will learn to draw the basic shapes and signifiers of one or more types of birds (song birds, waterfowl and marshland birds, upland ground birds, or perching and tree-clinging birds).
It helps to know the anatomy of existing birds when one tries to invent their own bird.
It helps to set the parameters of the habitat of one’s bird prior to inventing the bird and making a sculpture of it.
Armatures lend support both to living birds and to our sculptures.

Activities
Copy a diagram of a bird skeleton.
Imagine what that bird skeleton would look like with feathers and draw that bird.
Invent your own bird, based on our study of the bird skeleton handout.
View and discuss the documentary film The Making of “Winged Migration.”
Sketch birds while watching the documentary, and make a final composition using one or more birds from your sketches (it’s okay to add even more)
Develop an idea for a bird sculpture—think about shapes, sizes, and color.
Make a bird sculpture out of newspaper, tape, plaster gauze, and tempera paint. We may also be using other materials to decorate the bird sculptures; i.e., construction paper and Trash for Nash items.


Vocabulary
Silhouette—contour, outline or shadow of a form
Signifier – important identifying trait; such as, the shape of a beak or wing
Armature – support material; such as a skeleton

In Art I like to have free time because I can draw what ever I want. This year in art I drew and painted pictures. I love to draw dogs with lots of color. I also like drawing and watching movies. I don’t not like anything.

--Dustyn

In 3rd grade Art class we made many projects. Once we did pictures based on cave drawings from Lascaux. It was very fun. I made a sort of unicorn, and if you cover the lower jaw it looks like a man! We did many other things too.

CARTER

In 3rd grade Art we made a pictures of big animal .I made a secret code .We will make a bird sculptures. There are many more things to do in Art this year.

--Luke

In Art I liked drawing imaginary animals. We drew cave art and the animals were cows and deer. We also drew big pictures in Art. We looked at rock art on video.

--Brandon

My favorite art project I did so far was drawing animals that we saw in the in the Anasazi movie.
My next favorite project was making a large picture.
I drew a picture about the ocean. I made it with markers, oil pastel and water color.

--Joel

What I like about Art

My favorite thing about Art is free time. I can draw on paper.
When we do animal drawings I like drawing dragons. I love Art!

-- CJ

In Art I liked when we made pictures of big animals. I think it was cool when we made rock art pictures. Art is the best subject ever. The best thing of all was drawing monsters.

--Hunter

In Art I learned about Lascaux and cave paintings.
We also made maps and creatures.
We also learned about famous artists.

--Justin

In 3rd grade I have learned to draw. My favorite art project was drawing animals. When I have free time in Art I like to draw from drawing books.

--James Patrick

My favorite art project this yea so far is resist painting. I like the drawing more. I also like free time. --Gabe

In 3rd grade Art I learned about nature, people and animals. My favorite art project this year (so far) is the MAPS. When I have free time I like to draw. –Ben Theodore

My favorite thing in art so far was making maps. I learned to be artistic and be creative. When I have free time I like to use drawing books. I also like to create animals (creatures). -- Ryan

My favorite art project this year is drawing animals and making sculptures. This year is fun. I hope we do this again. --Anthony

My favorite art project this year has been drawing animals with oil pastels. That was fun because I love drawing with oil pastels and I love animals. Another fun art project we did was when we made maps and codes. Connor

In Third Grade Art I have how to make a map about treasure hunts .My favorite art project this year so far is making our own symbols. My symbol looked sort of like this pretty cool. When I have free time I like to draw animals like lions, dogs, cats, and others. My favorite movie so far that we watched is called Awesome Animal Builders. It thought it was cute.



--Me’a

In 3rd grade Art we are working on cave art resist painting and making maps.
So to do our resist painting you need to get paint and pencil and then you
draw what you want and then paint it. To do maps you need a pencil and
markers. First you need to draw your map with pencil and then you color it with marker. To do signs you get a pencil and paper first, then you draw a sign and color it.

--Daniel

In art I did a big resist painting of an owl. We also studied cave art and rock art. We also watched a video about bugs and animals that build houses. We also did pictures codes and signs.


Sierra

3rd Grade Art Projects


The first thing I did was make a map. Then we started learning about rock art. We watched a video about some children that found rock art. After that we made resist paintings. I did a resist of a sign on a rock. Then we watched more movies and copied them down with sharpies. After that, I made up my own petroglyph/pictograph

-Austin

My favorite art project so far this year was making our own symbols. When we made our own symbols we had to really think hard. My symbol was a circle with three triangles inside with lines around it.



Molly

In 3rd Grade Art I have learned to draw cave art. My favorite art project this year is the Lascaux cave art project. When it is free time in art I like to draw from the book
Draw Mini Manga.

Dylan

In 3rd Grade Art I have learned to draw cave art. My favorite art project this year is the Lascaux cave art project. When it is free time in art I like to draw from the book
Draw Mini Manga.

Dylan

So far I did animal pictures, people picture, and watercolor pictures also did free draw and nature. I like to watch movies like Magic School Bus, Real Animals, and many more.
I like Art. My favorite is petroglyphs.

--Andrew

I like art, because when I am done doing the main stuff, I can free draw. I have learned about, and made, petroglyphs, pictographs, maps, codes and signs. When I am doing art, I usually use pencils and markers, but sometimes I use oil pastels or craypas, watercolors, chalk pastels, Sharpies, brush pens, and, of course, I need paper. I love art, especially when I use oil and chalk pastels. Art is fun!!

-Freya

I liked it when we colored with pastels. I drew a dog. I also liked it when we painted. I also remember when we watched the Indian movie and after that we drew it.

--Eva

In Art we have been experimenting with color and materials. We also studied rock art. We created our own symbols. Then, with pencil on a large piece of paper, we made pictures of big animals. Next we could color or paint in any way. We could use crayon resist or Sharpie markers. We could use craypas or watercolors. We could even use all of these. I have had a great time in art.

--Keely

In 3rd grade Art I have learned how to use craypas, and also Miranda and I made secret codes in art.

In the middle of art my class watched a movie about rock art.

--JQ

In the project “B, B, B, B.” I made! It has four legs and a tail. It is extremely intelligent! He is a herbivore and his dull teeth allow him to crunch the plants.
 Alexander


Note: “B, B, B, B” is the acronym Alexander made up for the directions to a project we did in conjunction with our studies of the cave paintings at Lascaux. These were:

Draw big animals with big arms.
Use big color and big experimentation with materials.
-- Dr. Nash

I have been doing drawing in Art. I have seen movies about Anasazis and they left behind. I like Art. It is fun to do.

-- Tsawa

I MADE ALL SORTS OF THINGS IN ART: PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND OTHER THINGS. ART IS MY FAVORITE CLASS. I DON’T EVER WANT TO LEAVE THIS SCHOOL.

--EZRA

In Third Grade Art [this year] I have learned to actually feel my pictures as if they were alive. My favorite art project so far is the 12 x18 pictures. When I have free time in art I like to draw bizarre photos of the past.

--Sam

This year I learned lots of stuff that happened thousands of years ago, and I got to draw stuff. Like buffalo at free time I like to draw duck it is really fun when you get to draw lots of stuff I also have a favorite project it is my duck and my made up animal.

--Maya

Year of Art (So Far)

This year in art I saw a movie about rock art and drew a few rock art symbols. Earlier this year we were working on petroglyphs, pictographs, maps, codes, etc. My favorite thing in art is free draw because you can draw almost anything. This is “Y” I love art.

--Ian

This year I have learned how to use craypas. I also learned about Native Americans. My favorite art project this year has been drawing our big animal picture with craypas and watercolors. When I have free time in art I like to free draw on 40-pound paper.

- Miranda

My favorite art project so far was drawing a galaxy and maps. Dr Nash is a great teacher. She lets us do fun one of them is make are own birds. Birds are My favorite creature. I remember all the activities, one is sculptures. You’ll have art for life.

trent

I really liked making the maps. I made a treasure map. In the treasure box had lots of gymnastic stuff like a leotard, water bottle, and a jacket and pants. My treasure map had a code you had to figure out to get to the treasure box. You had to buy things to dig up the treasure box. The treasure box was magical so you can’t dig it up with regular clothes, it will just burn the medal on your shovel.

--Haley


In third grade art class we did animal drawings. I drew a pig,dog,frog fish,snake,panda, and a horse. It was so much fun making this picture. Your younger kids are lucky that they get to make one. I hope that they have as much fun as I did making this picture.

Athena

I really liked doing my picture in Art. It had the burning sun, the peach, and red sky. And the palm tree and the best thing of all : an ELEPHANT.

By ALLISON

My favorite art project in art is the maps because we got to make them up . I liked the animal drawings because you got to draw as many animals as you wanted to and also you got to choose what animals we wanted to draw and how big.

Dominique

4. Web Logging

Goals:
Learn the organization and planning skills needed to post thoughtful text to a blog site.

Enduring understandings:
Planning a post can result in a thoughtful comment or observation.
It is important to communicate one’s ideas in a responsible and respectful manner.
What one posts on a website is shared with whomever has Internet access and may or may not be password protected.

Activities:
Write a paragraph about 3rd Grade Visual Arts. You might describe:
• Something you have made
• A topic we have studied
• A process you have used
• A material with which you have worked

Type this paragraph into a Microsoft Word document and transfer it (cut and paste) to our blog site

Upload text and images to the blogsite

Follow-up activities:
• Add more writing and images to the blogsite (independently or with a friend)
• Look at, review, analyze, and critique our blog site and selected others
• Discuss what we want on our blog and make note of it
• Look at the Visual Arts web pages at http://www.manzanodayschool.org/webpages/anash/
and review, analyze, and critique what we see then discuss what we want we would like to have on our web pages and make note of it

Vocabulary:
Blog – short for web log, a series of journal-like entries made on a website like this one
Upload — to transfer data or programs, usually from a peripheral computer to a central, often remote computer (from: Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.)
Download -- to transfer or copy data from one computer to another, or to a disk or peripheral device, or be transferred or copied in this way; data that has been downloaded in a single operation (from: Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.)

In art we are doing cave art and we watched a movie about cave art.
We also watched a movie about animal builders.

Samsara


What I did in Art? I drew a cave art cow and a dog. We made maps. We have done signs. We have used cray-pas.

Ben L.

This year I drew a map and did two folders. I liked making my map best because it fit like a puzzle.

Hugh

In 3rd grade art I have learned to draw cave art. My favorite art project this year is the
Lascaux cave art project.

Dylan

In art class we did resist painting we made our own symbols using oil pastels, cray-pas and paints. We did cave art and drew pictures of it. We also made maps, symbols, signs and codes. We learned about rock art, petroglyphs and pictographs. We watched a video
about animal builders. Julia


The first thing we did was to make a map or code. Then we started studying rock art
We also made resist paintings. My favorite art project was resist painting. Bryce

In art class we made maps, cave art and resist painting. We watched animal builders, and pictographs.

Ben T. ☺☺


In art I did a big resist painting. We also studied cave art. Rock art can be two things, petroglyphs.

Sierra

In 3rd grade I have learned to make cave art. We needed markers , pencils, and paint. I loved cave art the best. I really like cave art and hope I will do it next year.

Zoe


In 3rd grade Art I have learned to do resist painting and petroglyphs. One of my favorite things was codes and maps. I also really liked petroglyghs.

sophie

Visual Arts

In Visual Arts I learned about cave art and what cave men used to make the materials for cave art and how they did it by making our own. We also learned about what animals use to make shelters and attract mates. We drew the animals and their homes that they made. That’s what I learned in Visual Arts.

--Jon