Loving Family (Crayon Drawings)
Overview of Lesson Package
Age Group:		8 years old | Primary 2
Classroom Size:		30 students to 1 teacher
Location:		Artroom
		Students are sitted in 6 groups of 5s.
		A leader has been appointed in each group on the previous lesson.
		Each group is also numbered from 1 to 6.
Schedule:		1 lesson per week x 4 weeks
Time for each lesson:		45 mins of lesson time + 15 mins of class movement & housekeeping
Overview:		Art and crafts in crayons
Week 1 Lesson Details
Prerequisite Knowledge:		Elements of Art (Curved Lines & Organic Shapes)
		Elements of Art (Space & Perspective)
New Knowledge,		Students acquire:
Competency & Skill:		- 21st Century Competency: Critical and Inventive Thinking
		- Improved motor skills (with colouring and paper cutting practice)
New Art Vocabulary:		Students learn the definition and application of:
		- Proportion to draw well-balanced objects.
		- Space to show objects in foreground, middle ground and background.
		- Perspective to show the depth in the nest.
Lesson Objectives:		At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
		- Observe the shapes in the objects around them.
		- See and appreciate the use of shapes to represent objects (birds & eggs).
		- Express and apply art processes involving shapes effectively & creatively.
Teaching Pedagogy:		Teacher exposition (presentation) and demonstration (modeling the
		use of a new media / art making technique)
Instructional Resources:		Prepare by teacher:
		- Story book "Little Eggs, Baby Birds"
		- 1 set of lecture slides
		- 1 video of the artistic process
		- Sample of finished product
		- 6 boxes of crayons
		- 33 small paper plates (as bird nests)
		- Scraps pieces of orange and brown papers (as twigs to build bird nest)
		- Scraps pieces of green papers in different shades (as leaves)
		- 33 pairs of male and female bird outline printouts (to colour and cut)
		- 33 x 4 eggs outline printouts (to colour and cut)
		- 1 big blot of blue tag (to hold finished sample on whiteboard)
		- 33 pieces of A6 size assessment rubrics (to stick behind the tree branch)
		- 33 red apple outlines (printed on red paper) as exhibition labels
		- Remaining papers are used to make ladybirds
		- Many cardboard to make the tree trunk and branches
		- Phone camera (to document art-making process for exhibition)
		- Laptop, projector & remote controller
		Prepare by each student:
		- Pencil, eraser & sharpener

Quick Overview of Events

Week 1: Story-Telling (lesson hook) + Craft Activities + Record Art-Making Process

(credit: This brilliant toy storybook was created by Frances Barry.)

Week 1, 2 and 3: Craft Activities + Learning Art Theory: Elements of Art (EOA)

Week 4: Tie up loose ends

Put up wall mural with children + Put up photos of working process

Loving Family (Crayon Drawings)
Overview of Lesson Package
Age Group:		Lower primary 1 to 3; Upper primary 4 to 6.
		Students from various local student care centres.
Teaching Pedagogy:		Teachers are encouraged to create differentiated learning
		between lower and upper primary classes. Upper primary students
		can be encouraged to add more objects and/or more details to
		their artwork.
		Teachers share differentiated artwork examples done by teachers
		and photo references of loving birds to guide the students.
Classroom Size:		Around 20 students to 2 teachers
Location:		Classroom
		Students are sitted in 6 groups of 5s.
		A leader has been appointed in each group on the previous lesson.
		Each group is also numbered from 1 to 6.
Schedule:		1 lesson per week
Time for each lesson:		120 mins of lesson time (inclusive of lecture and sharing session)
Overview:		Drawing using crayon medium
Students' Artworks
The students were drawn into the art lesson with the reading of the
interesting story book lesson hook. We discussed about how much their parents
love them and the large amount of effort that their parents have put in
to create a safe and cosy environment to
bring them up just like the love birds.
Love Birds Drawing by Darrius
Love Birds Drawing by Yawen
Love Birds Drawing by Shannon
Love Birds Drawing by Jodie
Love Birds Drawing by Jervon
Love Birds Drawing by Torres
Torres started his drawing with a single large egg and immediately realised that
he would not have enough space to draw his birds unless he drew them extremely huge.
This problem became a good learning opportunity to apply creativity in his work.
Torres was asked to relate his work to a photo frame and think about how
the birds can display the photo at their nest like what we see in the cartoons.
He is encouraged to think calm for creative solutions that next time
he meets with problem as it is another opportunity to make
his work even more interesting.
Teacher's Artwork
This is the artwork drawing reference provided by the Art Teacher.
Students' Artworks
There was a twist to one of these art lessons.
After reading the love birds story in an all boys student care centre, the boys
responded that they did not like love birds and do not want to draw.
I quickly discussed and engaged them with something that
most boys are interested in.... soccer.
The boys became more excited about the drawing activity.
We also discuss and imagine aloud their birds in different kinds of funny
situations. At last, they were engaged in this lesson.
"Soccer Practice" drawing by Firdaus
"This is our Star soccer player" drawing by Firdaus
"Swimming Bird in the clouds" drawing by Sathriyan
"Loving father bird" drawing by Rafeal
There is only one boy who followed the
theme on Love Birds but interpreted the storyline in his own way...
Mummy flew out to look for food while daddy bird stays home to warm the eggs,
which was inspired by the movie "The March of the Penguins".
whereby daddy penguin stay home to take care of the egg.
His mum shared with us that she takes pride in
his understanding and demonstration of
a sense of responsibility through his work.
Teacher's Lesson Reflection
Some children storybooks can magically inform children
from all over the world about one another's way of life and culture.
Given another chance to teach the lesson again, I shall share
with the boys an inspiring story about how a group of teenage boys
living in Brazilian tried to overcome the odds and hardships in their daily lives
to seize time and opportunities to play with their friends to level up their soccer skills.
I hope that our boys will be inspired by how these senior boys worked hard
towards achieving their dreams. When they succeeded in life,
these Brazilian boys also help they themselves and
their families to lead a better life.
The interesting twist in this story comes when
young girls are also encouraged to chase the dreams such as soccer,
which are seemingly set aside conventionally for the boys.
The main character's younger girl proved her worth of salt
through her passion as well as daily
training with her brother.
Storybook Title: Football Star
Story by: Mina Javaherbin
Ilustrated by: Renato Alarcao
The page on this book reads, "I am Paulo Marcelo Feliciano
and when I'm a football star, my mother won't have to work long hours
and I won't have to miss her so much. All day, I help Senhor da Silva fish.
After work, I practise soccer with him."
Senhor da Silva finally says, "Felino, enough for today."
The grey clouds suddenly sail away - away from the beach,
away from my game.

We plan and practise our game. Jose will fly, Givo will bounce,

Carlos will kick, and Felino will score!

We're a player short. "Maria?" I ask my team.

Givo votes no. Pedro votes yes and Carlos is fine either way.

It's up to me, and my vote is for change. I wave to my sister

and say, "It's time!" and Maria runs onto the field.

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