Cells 5

Protozoa in Real Time

To complete the Cell Project you will need to write a Reflection in your Development Sketchbooks. This will be your culminating task for this assignment. Next week you will complete the self-assessment rubric and then all grades will be final. The deadlines for the art work are passed, and so if you still need to complete your paintings, you will need to do that on your own time, no more class time will be given to the paintings.

Cell Project Reflection:

1. Make a note of how long the Cell Project took (13 weeks) and comment on your time-management skills. Have you completed your Project on time? If yes - Explain how you managed to do that. If no - Explain why and what you are planning to do about it.
2. Describe your final painting as if you are talking to somebody who has not seen it.
3. Does your Painting successfully represent your Cell? Is the Story of your Cell evident?
4. Do you think that your Painting is successful? Both from an Artistic and a Scientific point-of-view. If yes - Explain why. If no - Explain why
5. Does your final Painting look like your Sketch Painting? If you have made adjustments and changes to your Sketch Painting record those now and explain why you made those adjustments.
6. What were some of the challenges that you faced in this project?
7. What were some of the successes you accomplished in this project?
8. What have you learned from doing this project?

Announcements Week 17 (12 -18 Jan. 2009)

As you know the Semester end at the end of this month, which means the following for you:

Grade 6 Fingerprint Paintings and Loose Ends
This week you will be completing your Fingerprint Paintings and wrapping up any loose ends in your Development Sketchbooks.

Grade 7 Development Sketchbooks & Mounted Work
You will be making sure that your Development Sketchbooks are in complete order and that all art work done so far is mounted.

Grade 8 Cell Paintings
It is that week. Deadline, deadline, deadline.

• 801 - Monday, January 12, 2009
• 802 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
• 803 - Thursday, January 15, 2009

No extensions are available - you may however, come in at lunch times and after school from 4 - 5:30. Use your time wisely...

Announcements Week 16 (05-11 Jan. 2009)

Happy New Year! Welcome back to school after the Winter Break.

Grade 6 Portraits
This week, no matter where you are in other projects, you will be completing a portrait of a classmate using your Contour Drawing skills. Please listen carefully to the instructions in class, and remember I CAN TELL if it is a contour Drawing or not. Pay attention to details, like eyelashes, hair, eyebrows, you know the neat stuff about a person and also remember to draw touching all sides of the paper in your Development Sketchbooks.

Grade 7 Card Making
As you know the Parent Council is hosting a brunch, which is also a fund raising event for the school to support the CAS projects that we are involved with. You, as a class, are going to create packs of cards to sell at the brunch to help with the fund raising. The cards are to be crafted with care and with the idea that they should be something somebody would be tempted to buy, and that you would be proud to sell.

Grade 8 Cell Paintings
This is it Grade 8, you have two weeks left, including this one to get your Cell Paintings completed. The official due dates are:

• 801 - Monday, January 12, 2009
• 802 - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
• 803 - Thursday, January 15, 2009

Winter Break (23 Dec. 2008 - 04 Jan 2009)

Mutlu Yıllar!
Enjoy your Winter Break. We will see each other in the New Year.

Announcements Week 14 (15-21 Dec. 2008)

We only have one week and two days of school before we are on holiday again for the Winter Break, so this week you will all (Grades 6 - 8) be continuing on your Studio work for your various projects.

Here are some fascinating photographs of some of the smaller things in our world (click on the picture).

Announcements Bayram Week

There are no homework assignments over the Bayram. Enjoy your break!

Announcements Week 13 (01-07 Dec. 2008)

All the Grades and different classes are working on various projects.

Grade 6 Fingerprint Project
601 has started painting
602 & 603 are still tracing

Grade 7 Kapadokya Projects
The Ceiling Fresco is starting to really take shape. The Paper Pigeons are almost done and the Shadow Boxes are also moving forward.

Grade 8 Cell Paintings
We agreed in class today that the due date for the Cell Paintings will be the week of January 12, 2009. Sounds like a long way off, but it isn't. Remember that you can come in at lunchtime to work as well.

There is not much to say, you all know what you are doing. This Friday, December 5th is the Science Fair all day, so we will not be having the regular schedule for Friday.

Cells 4

Grade 8, now that most of you have started your Cell projects and are beginning to paint, I want you to start thinking about what your final painting will look like. Here are some examples of Cell art to get you imagining the possibilities some more...

Madonna con Clon, Dr. Hunter O'Reilly

For homework, and to get you thinking about the Science of it all, visit these two links: Cell City and Cells Alive! Be ready in class next week to ANSWER QUESTIONS about the homework.

Remember that Mr. Young is going to be looking for the following information in your final painting:

1. Name: The Cell is accurately named and sourced
2. What is it: Kingdom of life the Cell belongs to is identified. Where in the multi cellular organism it is found is identified. If it is unicellular, where the organism lives.
   
3. What does it do and how: Explanation of how it performs its function
4. What makes it a Cell: 5 features common to all cells are identified
5. What makes it unique: 5 features unique to this Kingdom of cells or this specialized cell
   

Collage Portrait

Grade 6 while you have been waiting for the projector to trace your Fingerprint, many of you have completed your first Collage Portrait. Collage Portrait, as we are calling it, is when you cut paper shapes to create the elements of a person's face and then glue them onto a background. Here are the basic steps:

To start with choose a picture from a magazine. Keep the size to about an A4 sheet of paper. It is best if your picture is a simple facial portrait.








Next take a sheet of tracing paper and place it over the picture that you chose. Then find shapes in the image. The hair can be one shape, the eyes, nose and mouth their own shapes. Try to simplify the image by making each element into a shape that you can easily cut from paper.





When the shapes are all cut, glue them carefully to the A4 size background. Leave a small space between each shape and watch how the background colour helps to add line to your composition.

Tip. Do not glue right to the edges, it keeps the portrait paper clean AND the edges create fun shadows in the Collage Portrait.

Announcements Week 12 (24-30 Nov. 2008)

Grade 6
I am hoping that this will be the last week for you to trace your fingerprints in class. Many of you have also completed your Collage Portraits, which look amazing. We need to talk this week about what kind of images you will use for your Self-Portraits.

Grade 7
The Kapadokya Projects finally feel like they are shaping up and so I am looking forward to a productive week in the classroom with you.

Grade 8
About half of you have started on your "canvases" and the other half must begin this week, we will be talking in class about deadlines...