D+09.10+Nature

=Welcome to the Elementary Art program! = =UNIT 6: Nature = = =

**Grade 3's art installation on campus:**


The Elementary school has worked on Nature this month. Kindergartners, Grade 3 and Grade 5 have looked at the work of the contemporary artist, Andy Goldsworthy.

[[image:isyelart/andy-goldsworthy.jpg width="107" height="220"]] Featured artist: Andy Goldsworthy
Inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy, they created an art work that was related to **TIME**. In Andy Glodsworthy's work, Time is important: not only because of the time he takes to create his art but the time Nature takes to "reclaim" its elements. The wind can blow it away, the tide will come back in and destroy his sand sculptures, Spring will melt his giant ice eggs... 3rd graders made art work that would only keep for a few hours, and sometime less. The art is gone but the trace of this art, the photograph lasts. Students looked at elements of Art in Nature: shapes, textures, colors, etc. and they collected leaves, pebbles, stones, sand, etc. to create an ephemeral image.
 * 3rd graders** made an art installation outside, around the field, with things/material they could find on the ground.
 * 5th graders** made a clay sculpture that reminded of fossils.
 * 4th graders** made close up observation drawings of tropical forest animals.
 * 2nd graders** built dinosaurs in papier-maché. They studied proportions and scale and designed their dinosaurs a 10th of their real size. Go take a look at our __**Wiki: D 09.10 Dinosaurs**__
 * 1st graders** have made a fossil print of their hand or foot and Aboriginal like paintings.
 * Kindergartners and Pre K** are doing studies of Aboriginal paintings: they are painting with q-tips to render Nature and making a mosaic of shapes to create a landscape viewed from the sky.