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feb. 29 - contour drawing + wire sculpture

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This week we did some contour drawing (no paper plate this time — lesson plan is here) at the beginning of class.

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contour drawing by J, age 9

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J, age 9, contour drawing, first attempt

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second attempt

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E, age 7, contour drawing

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Left to right: first attempt at contour drawing, second attempt, final observational drawing, by E, age 6

After we finished our contour drawings, we did an observational drawing. You can see the children used the information they gathered during the contour drawing to improve their observational drawings.

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observational drawing by Jack, age 8

After drawing time, we worked on wire sculptures.

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Posted on Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 02:23PM by Registered CommenterLori | CommentsPost a Comment

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