Ugly Duckling Swan

We watched the Classic Disney short

Ugly Duckling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCX-mPstrPU

Watch my instructional video for this lesson here on YouTube. 

https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_referrer=watch&video_id=bsjgbVd0Rf4   

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Cramer's 5th grad class

Andrea, Sean, Regan, 

Salvador, Justin & Elsa

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Mrs. Ahmed's 4th grade class

Justine (?), Jake, Jordin,

Isabel, Martin & Christy

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Mrs. Thomas's 4th grade class

Isabel, Justine, Jordin, Jake, JoJo,

Christy, Heaven, Martin, Xavier & Tonie

Reggie D. 4th grade

Mrs. Thomas's 4th grade class

Ellis, Jaslene, Addyson, Daniela,

Alexandra, Sophie, Erik, Zayd (?),

Angel, Saige, Santiago & Julian

Mrs. Duncan's 3rd grade class

Taylor, Ellie, Katelyn & landen

Mrs. Burkes 3rd grade class

Ava, Peyton R., Bryan,

Maddie (?) & Kimberley.,

Leo, Draven,

Meredith & Alex

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Mrs. Do's 2nd grade class

Annie, lily, Aiden,

Minghui, Zowie & Samuel

Mr. Ansari's Swans

Natalie, Linsey, Maci,

Jax, NoName, Brielle,

Alyssa, skylar & Angie

Mrs. Beaulieu's Swans

Ashton, Andrea, NoName,

Charlotte, LiH?, Jalynn

Ms. Jamison's Swans

Trinity, Chloe, Justin, Emily,
Maddox, harmony, Aiden C. & Nathan

We practiced drawing swans starting with the number 2. 

THen formed the head and body from this. 

Students added the water lever at half way.

They were encouraged to add pond life to the underwater area. 

We brainstormed and made a list of what could be in a pond environment:

frogs, tadpoles, fish, dragonflies, flies, butterflies, turtles, ducks...

Fold paper in half. This fold is the surface of the water. 

WIth a PENCIL, Draw the swan on the surface of the water. 

Add bottom of swan under the fold (belly and feet). 

Madelynn, 1st grade, is here outlining her drawing with a

permanent marker before coloring and  painting. 

Kenut, 5th grade is coloring the areas he does not want to paint with crayons.

 Color all details (excluding the sky and water) 

Koi Fish Pond

Mrs. Blankenship's summer 2016

5th grade

Student Examples of alternative method

Madi, Noah, Anonymous, 

Alise, Abigail, Lisa, 

Andre, Lizzie & Angela

Kaden & Jimmy

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Student examples of Paint Method

Mrs. Do's 4th grade Summer 2016

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Begin by drawing lily pads scattered around paper with a pencil.
When they look how you like, use a BLACK permanent marker to outline them

4th grade light pencil sketch

Draw Koi fish swimming around the pond with a pencil. 

This is the steps I found most helpful... from Art Projects For Kids website.

http://artprojectsforkids.org/portfolio/koi-fish/

WHen they look how you like, outline them with a BLUE crayon or Blue permanent marker.

Color LilyPads with a green crayon using VERY HARD pressure.

I blended 3 greens together. 

Draw ripples around lily pads with white and blue crayon using VERY HARD pressure. 

(you will see white later). 

Draw bubbles with a white crayon behind the koi fish's tail using HARD pressure.

COlor the Koi fish with crayons using hard pressure with crayons again. 

Anything you want white you will have to color white. 

Use watercolor or tempera cakes to paint in water. THe crayon you used before very HARD will resist the paint if you use enough water.

How to do paint technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecLw1kj-GyU

Fill water up with paint dots until it is complete!

Nice video to play while students are working, water noises and Koi Fish swimming around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP9fUqy9kk

Alternative-------

Teacher Example (above)

Maisy, 3rd grade (above)

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Crayola color sticks 

on construction paper

Students

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Alternative 3

Draw 4 big lily pads on small green construction paper...

Done..,

Cut out lily pads. Make sure to cut out "x" section. Some can be cut in half to appear as 2 separate pads going off the picture.