First Grade 

Project Description: 

Students will finish painting their boxes using two-dimensional design. After that, students will create the three-dimensional objects with clay to further communicate their story through visual artwork.

Essential Understanding: 

Artists use symbol and form to tell their own stories through three-dimensional design.

 

Inquiry/Learning Target: 

Students can use art to tell a personal story. 

 

Key Concepts:

• Symbol

• Three-dimensional Composition

• Form

 

Skills: 

• Listening

• Creating with clay

 

Art Focus: 

Creating three-dimensional objects to tell a story 

 

Literary Focus: 

Students are recording their ideas in their sketchbooks. 

 

 

Documentation:

Students explored how to make objects for their story boxes out of clay. Below displays videos and pictures of student discoveries through art-making.

 

 

This student questioned how to create his brother's curly hair with clay. They discovered that twisting a piece of rolled out clay can resemble curls. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some students experimented with clay by adding water. The videos below shows student discoveries by experimenting with adding water. One student even used water instead of glue. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       "If you make it wet, you don't need glue."                                                     "When I put water on it, it gets slimy then when it dries it gets so sticky. "                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 The student below used markers to create the details of her pupils, in the video below she explains what she is creating.