Thrilling Third Graders~ Ancient Greek Snakes!

What do snakes have to do with ancient Greece?

Asclepius, in the ancient times, was almost always depicted as a middle-aged man holding a rod with a snake rapped around it. The snake symbolizes the snake bite, which was the worst kind of disease someone could have and very difficult to cure. However, Asclepius had the power to heal even the snake bite. This rod with the snake is known as the “Rod of Asclepius” and is even today the symbol of the physicians throughout the world. 

Most of you will recognize this symbol below!

 It is the caduceus. It is often mistakenly used as a symbol of medicine and medical practice (especially in North America), due to historical confusion with the traditional medical symbol, the rod of Asclepius. The Rod of Asclepius has only a single snake and no wings, so it is similar in form to the caduceus with its two snakes and often with wings

(wikipedia)

Athena, the Greek god of wisdom shown with serpents on her chiton

Third Graders made beautiful mythological snakes using many different materials.

TAYLOR

The hardest part they'll tell you was cutting the cardboard. It took us 2 class periods and many sore fingers!

ABBY

We painted them first, then wrapped them with yarn and wire to give them a bit of texture.

BECCA

CALEB

After that we painted again with metallics and glued on sequins for some extra sparkle.

Let's get a closeup of that wonderful detail!

REESE

TANNER

Tongues from wire and eyes were added last.

JESSICA

SHANNON

LOVE how MATTHEW added a few extra tongues!

BEN

More detail!

CARTER

ARIANNA

PAIGE

Spectacular Second Graders~ Ancient Greek Vases in Pastel

Second Graders learned about the many uses of the water urn in ancient Greek times. 

ALEXIS

ABBY

They designed the shape and handles of their vase, cut them out and filled in desgins with oil pastel.

MAX

KOURTNEY

Later, we looked at ancient mosaics and chose colors to created a mosaic tile border.

ELLA

LEVI

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the color combinations they came up with between the pastel, the background paper and mosaic pieces!

KENNEDY

ELLA S.

These second graders have quite the artistic eye, let me tell ya! It was so much fun to watch them stand over the piles of paper and switch back and forth to find the colors they liked the best.

RILEY

Fabulous Fourth Grade~ Painted Ancient Greek Vases

BAILEY

I'm so proud of how these fourth graders handled this project. These are huge! These kiddos know I like to work big and this was the perfect ancient Greek project to do super size. They're about 2ft. tall!

GRACE

With this size, students sometimes have the tendency to just slap paint on any ol' place but they really planned out their design and were careful with their colors.

MACEY

HANNAH

JACK

We studied the shape of real ancient Greek vases and  the shape and placement of handles.

DYLAN

TAYLOR

Ancient examples are earth toned, but I love how some incorporated brighter colors too.

AIDAN

ELLA

MEGAN

A.J.
No handles!

ANGELA

MADDIE

LINDSEY

OLIVIA

JAYDEN

Love the idea of making a pitcher with one handle!

EVAN

Wow!



KAYLA

HUNTER

We did love this project, next up...Weaving!!

Critique~ The Mona Lisa!

Every school year Kindergarten through Fifth gets to critique at least two artworks. They love the critique process!

1. We LOOK at the artwork

2. We THINK about our opinion of the artwork

3. We TALK about the artwork and share our opinion

4. We DRAW about the artwork

This time I chose The Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo daVinci almost 508 years ago!

The opinion shared by most was that they liked The Mona Lisa, although some did not like her hair, her clothing or the muted colors of the painting. Even though she is known for her smile, we decided it really was not that great of a smile and that we could think of a way to really make her smile!

So, where would YOU take the Mona Lisa to make her smile??

To McDonalds?

 

To the icecream shoppe?

How about to see a movie?

Or to the beaches of Hawaii?

I love this one, Griffin would like to take her on a date!

And maybe a make-over will do

There were so many great responses so we hung them in the hallway for everyone to see