Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Mandalas!
In celebration of International Dot Day, all classes will create different types of "Dot Art." Fifth and sixth grade artists will create circular artwork called Mandalas.
Mandalas are created in many cultures as a support for meditation. They can be drawings or painted or made from sand.
What is a Mandala?
The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean "circle," a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself--a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.
Describing both material and non-material realities, the mandala appears in all aspects of life: the celestial circles we call earth, sun, and moon, as well as conceptual circles of friends, family, and community.
(from The Mandala Project)
Mandalas have Radial Symmetry: the condition of having similar parts regularly arranged around a central axis
Examples of Mandalas:
Video of the Dali Lama creating a Sand Mandala
Friday, October 4, 2013
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Ugly Dolls on Display!
Come see the Not-so-Ugly Dolls made by fifth and sixth graders! They are on display in the lobby.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Ugly Dolls!
Fifth and sixth graders designed their very own Ugly Dolls! We used felt and practiced our sewing skills to make these funny little friends. Students also wrote about their Ugly Doll's personality and likes and dislikes.
MORE TO COME!!!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Not so Ugly Dolls!
We started by folding a piece of free draw paper in half the tall way and drawing half of a monster shape along the fold. Then we cut them out and traced the monster onto colored paper. We glued our ugly dolls onto black paper and used scrap paper and black markers to add simple details to the faces.
The next phase of the project is to make an Ugly Doll out of felt. We traced the monster onto two sheets of felt, then cut them out. We used scraps of felt to add details to the doll and then sewed the two pieces together with whip stitch. We stuffed the Ugly Dolls with filling.
Each artist named his or her not-so-Ugly Doll and came up with character traits and a short story about the monster.
Here are the finished paper not-so-Ugly Dolls
Students folding paper and cutting out symmetrical shapes.
Students breaking my cardinal "no shadow puppets" rule of using the projector. They are using their Ugly Dolls as shadow puppets on the official Ugly Doll website.
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