Krissie Barker
7th grade 2020
Mrs. Celestine's 4th grade
Rosa & Jayla
Ale & jay W.
Isabelle & Carson
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4th grade Wednesday Art Classes
Hannah & Andy
Haley
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4th grade- Mrs. mcMillian
Kara & Cassandra
Kadin & Andrew
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Wednesday classes...
Mrs. Do's class
Alyssa
Tray & Abby
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Friday Art class
Mr. Cramer's class
Preston & Noah "Gage"
Lisa "Joanna" and James
Gabriella
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Stephanie in Johnson's 4th grade class
Mrs. Markowitz 4th grade
London
This project is called a Kaleidoscope Name Design. It teaches radial symmetry, balance, and negative and positive spaces. The students take a square paper and fold it into 8 sections (like a pizza). Their names are drawn on one of the slices making sure the tops and bottoms of their letters touch the edges of the slice.
They can work from the middle corner out or the outside edge in... either look very nice. They outline their name with a permanent black marker on front and back of the paper. They use this first original name to trace to the seven remaining slices.
Students need to understand that every other wedge will be flipped (backwards) because it is a reflection. Then the next wedge will be forward again... So on and so on. This gets a little confusing, so I made this tracing order guide 😉
We used the window as our tracing table. Every other triangle will be a backward name. This is normal and necessary. After the name is transferred by tracing to all 8 triangles, students begin coloring.
I tell them to plan ahead by "dotting" the spaces with the colors they want to use to create any accidents caused by carelessness. Here Haley is using a purple marker to dot all of her A centers.
. I let them use colored pencils, crayons, or markers. I made sure they understood that each triangle must be colored the same as the original triangle.
I encouraged them to try to use brighter bolder colors for the negative spaces to disguised their names better if they wanted that effect. I like people to not see the name at first until they look further. I think they turned out beautifully! It was definitely not as hard as I was expecting. I will be doing these next year as well. Stamp it as a success!
Teacher Example
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Student Examples
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This is a very relaxing video that you could show and keep going to inspire them as they work on their name designs...
