www.moma.org/interactives/artsafari/ This link is for an interactive site at the Museum of Modern Art website. For young children and their parents, this is a fun site and, among other things, an opportunity to look at famous works of art and practice learning how to talk about arworks.
Here at BCD we also try to learn the language of art- making art, learning art principles and elements, and talking about art. For instance, the Third Graders have learned about Matisse, Picasso, and Calder and their work so far this year. They have also made edible color wheels.
Fifth graders have been drawing to share information about themselves.
In the Sixth grade, they have explored what makes a successful landscape picture, as well as the mediums of collage, watercolors, and watercolor pencils. They have studied the Hudson River School, and gone on a field trip to Olana, former home of Frederic Church.
The Foundations class has been learning about drawing- mirror images, negative space, shading, and design techniques as well as relative sizes and compostition.
The Drawing, Painting and Sculpture class also worked with drawing, looking at relative sizes, composition, and shading, as well as ways to use line to describe shapes. They have also had an assignment that they could fulfill in any medium.
Classes also spend time looking at and talking about the work they have done. They learn to share ideas, experiment, and think of new ways to put thing together. The arts are enriching for all our students!
Please drop into the library to see the 4th Grade Sculpture Show, , and visit the Berkshire Museum to see the 3rd Grade’s tree in the Festival of Trees.
Also, a reminder- Members of The Arts Dept. are taking turns posting weekly items. Please click the Arts at the top of the MyBCD screen. It has been hard to find, but we hope we have corrected that.
