5th Grade Ope Point Perspective Earth Drawings

One Point Perspective! Perspective is used in drawing to add space and dimension to a drawing. Learning to draw with perspective is one step to drawing more realistically.  This can be a hard concept for young students to understand, yet this group of 5th graders took on the challenge beautifully. 

Students looked at examples of one point perspective and learned about the all important "vanishing point" to which lines in a drawing connect to. We also learned the difference between the three viewpoints of drawing in perspective: worm's eye view, man's eye view, and bird's eye view.

Our drawings focused on drawing in bird's eye view, meaning that we are looking down on the scene from above. The students were tasked with creating an imaginary view of earth as seen from space complete with buildings, oceans, stars, and any other creative details. 

Students used rulers to create straight lines that connected to the vanishing point. 

Many of the drawings had an impressive amount of detail. 

The drawings were finished using a combination of colored pencils and color sticks. 

Take a look at some of the finished drawings! 

These drawings turned out very nice and I am proud of the students for accomplishing success on a difficult concept. 

Fine Arts Night 2016!

This year on May 5th we hosted our second annual Fine Arts Night! This year is was bigger and better. 

We had an amazing crowd with at least 517 people walk through our door! First of all, thank you to every visitor who came that that evening. This was our school's most attended event! 

This year's Fine Arts Night included a school wide art show, 4th and 5th grade music performances, choir performance, percussion ensemble performance, and a wonderful step team performance. We also had a dance party in the library, snacks for sale, a craft table from the 5th grade art club, and booths set up from some Coyle middle school fine arts teachers. It was a busy night! 

I'll leave you with some pictures from the evening! Look for new posts about recent projects to be written soon! 

The busy front hallway.

Artwork that was displayed at the recent GISD elementary art showcase. 

Art Club craft table with jewelry and giant crayons. 

Clay projects in the display case. 

Busy traffic in the main hallway. 

Our talented Step Team entertaining the crowd. They did so good! 

3rd grade artwork. 

Some 2nd and 3rd grade self portraits. 

5th grade artwork took up an entire hallway! 

Hallway with and without people! Such a good crowd. 

Pre- k artwork made with our wonderful pre-k teachers, Mrs. Wilson and Ms. Buenrostro. 

Kindergarten artwork. 

First grade artwork. 

2nd grade artwork.

Fourth grade artwork. 

Library with a crowded Just Dance party. 

Fine Arts Night was exciting and amazing! Can't wait for next year.