Second Grade

Distance Learning

Please upload your work to google classroom. You can upload past due assignments there as well under the current weeks assignment and I will know which week it is for.

New Assignments will be added every week and will appear in order as you scroll down the page. I will leave past week's assignments up so you can always look back and catch up if you have fallen behind.

First Week Of Distance Learning:

Dragon Poem Illustration

4/6-4/10

There are some artists who choose to become illustrators. These artists are the ones who create the covers and drawings for books or poems. Some illustrators work for magazines while others draw album art or concert posters for musicians. Some draw for people in the medical field drawing pictures for nurses, doctors or surgeons. There are some who work drawing the pictures in textbooks to aid people in learning!

Read the poems about dragons below trying to imagine what the poem would look like as a movie inside your mind as you read it. Choose your favorite scene and draw it as an illustration so others can see it the way you imagine it would look. The best illustrators help to bring our favorite stories to life.

When you do your drawing remember to start in pencil and include lots of details. Does your dragon have sharp teeth? Wings? Spikes on its back? Long hair? Four legs or does it stand on two? Does it swim? Where does it live? Make sure you draw in the background. After you finish drawing it with pencil add in your colors however you like. Lets see what you can do to make these wonderful poems even better with your artwork!

Puff The Magic Dragon

by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton

PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal PUFF,

and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail

Jackie kept a lookout perched on PUFF's gigantic tail,

Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came,

Pirate ships would lower their flag when PUFF roared out his name!

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys

Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.

One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more

And PUFF that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,

PUFF no longer went to play along the cherry lane.

Without his life-long friend, PUFF could not be brave,

So PUFF that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.

Oh! PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

Second Week of distance learning:

Inside the castle

4/13-4/17

All over Europe there are still some of the sturdier medieval castles standing. Many of them people can visit and take a tour of the grounds. People study the materials used to make the castles, the building techniques, the windows and doorways, and anything that is still inside in order to help understand the history of the castle. It helps us to understand what it was like to be living back during the times when these fantastic buildings were made. This week's art lesson is going to be about castles.

The first thing you need to do is get some supplies together. You will need drawing and coloring supplies, paper and scissors.

The first thing you will want to do is fold your paper. Hold your paper so it is wide and short rather than tall and thin. Artists call this "landscape position" and the tall thin one "portrait position". Now fold both sides to meet in the middle. Take your pencil and draw a castle line across the top. Look at these lines to see what I mean by a "castle" line.

Next you will cut along the castle line you just drew keeping the paper folded the whole time.

Now it's time to start drawing! Where the folded paper comes together in the middle is where your castle door should be. the line made by the folds coming together should be right down the center of your door.

here are some pictures of real castle doors to get you inspired to make yours really awesome the way a castle door should be. Give it fancy hinges, handles to open it. Maybe your door has locks or wooden crossbars. Its up to you.

Once you have your door drawn you can add the brickwork. Are there windows? It's up to you.

Now color the outside and you are finished with this weeks art assignment. Next week we will open the flaps and figure out the inside of our castle.

Who or what is in there?!?!

Fourth Week of Distance Learning

Jester Hat

4/27-5/1

Instructions for making a jester hat:

Start off by making a long strip of paper like a headband. You want it to be long enough to go all the way around your head with a little left over so it overlaps. It should be like the red paper in this picture.You can make it as wide as you want. The wider you make it the sturdier the hat will be. Your paper doesn't need to be colored. You can use cardboard or a paper grocery bag. Whatever paper you have as long as it is kind of sturdy. if it isn't sturdy then folding it or doubling it up might help strengthen it.

The next thing you need to do is make some long triangles. After you make the first one use it as a tracer for the rest. Then, using whatever glue you have available or a stapler if you have no glue, glue the triangles to the headband like you see in the picture. Make sure the bottom edge of the triangle matches up with the bottom edge of the headband. That will give the paper more strength and better support for the weight of the triangles.

Attach the rest of the triangles onto the headband leaving no space between triangles. You can overlap them a bit under the top edge of the headband. when the hat is done no one will see this side of the headband so if the glue gets a bit messy or they overlap a bit it doesn't matter too much. If you are using staples make sure the points of the staples go through the side showing in the picture above and come out the opposite side that is not seen in the picture above. The side that is showing will be the inside of the hat.

The next step is to cut two circles for each triangle point. You can make them whatever size you think looks good. Use the first one you cut as the tracer for the other circles so you know they are the same size. Then glue the circles onto the ends of the triangle points. You want to have two circles on each point with the point being sandwiched in between the circles. If the two circles were the cookie part of an oreo cookie the triangle point would be the cream filling. If you are not sure look at these pictures.

The next step is to size the headband to your head and glue it into a circle so it fits you. Make sure you bend the paper so the triangles are on the inside and the full headband is visible on the outside. Notice how you can see the entire red paper on the outside of the hat in the picture.

One last step for this week. Take a pencil or a pen and rub it onto the outside each triangle by putting the pen on one side and your fingers on the other. The same way you would curl a ribbon. If that isn't working you can just use your hands to bend the paper and give it a slight curve. On this step less is better. the paper will probably bend all on its own after a bit from humidity in the air. This just gets it bending the direction you want it too rather than the direction it decides to.

Okay! That is enough work for this week. Next week we will decorate the hat and put the finishing touches on it. Here are some jokes you can start practicing so when your jester hat is ready you can entertain your friends and family!

Q: What eats more knights than a dragon?

A: Two dragons.

Q: Why was Sir Galahad tired?

A: He worked the knight shift…

Q: Why do dragons sleep during the day?

A: So they can fight knights!

Q: What did King Arthur do when he was scared of the dark?

A: Turned on a Knight light.

Q: How come the skeleton didn't compete in the joust?

A: He didn't have the guts.

More next week!

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