4th Grade Home Lesson Week 1

We are currently in the middle of two lessons in 4th Grade art class.

For the most part, all of us have sculpted our salamanders and peeper frogs out of ceramic clay. We will be glazing them when we return to school. I am a little nervous about our forest friends having enough water in the vernal pools where they breed this spring because of the lack of snowpack in the woods. If you hear or see some of these creatures on your (social distancing) adventures into the woods this spring please let me know!

We also learning about SCALE. Scale is one of those cool words that have many meanings. In this case we are talking about:

4a: a proportion between two sets of dimensions (as between those of a drawing and its original)
b: a distinctive relative size, extent, or degree

We are using a cool website, remove.bg to create a google slide that shows pictures of ourselves in different scales. It is easy to use, and if you have a computer at home you might want to mess around with it.

I would love my 4th Grade students to make a drawing where they shrink the scale of some human figures and picture them interacting with a giant size world. When I was a kid I loved The Littles, a series of books by John Peterson about little people who lived in the walls. Can you imagine riding on the back of a frog or a bird? What animals would we have to worry about as predators if we were as small as a mouse? How could inside or outside environments become more fun or more challenging?

No one is responsible for completing any work at home this week or passing anything in to me. I am happy if you spend a little time thinking about what we have been doing in class and making art at home!

Thanks! Make healthy choices!
-Mr. McGinty