Keystone School's Second Grade Projects

Zuckerman's Famous Pig Piggy Bank

The Second Graders read Charlotte's Web every year with Mrs. Gonzalez and Mrs. Cook.  This project involves them taking what they learned last year in Kindergarten and going a step farther.  The students create two pinch pots and learn how to put them together by using a new technique Scoring, adding slip and Smoothing the cracks out.  Students add legs, a snout and a tail for good measure.  It'll be "Some Pig".

Charlotte Web's Radiant Wilbur The Pig

Examples of Second Grade Ceramic Radiant Famous Piggy Banks

Grade Level - Second Grade
Duration - Two Class Periods
​Media Type - Sculpture

Curriculum Integration
​Subject Integration: Art/Literature
Content Standards:
VA.Cr1.1.1a - Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
​VA.Cr1.2.1a - Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
​VA.Cr2r.1.1a  Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design
​VA.Cr.2.2.1a - Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
​VA: Cr2.3.1a - Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures or other visual means.
VA: Cr3.1.1a - Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.
​VA:Re7.1.1a - Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one's self and others.
VA:Re7.2.1a - Compare images that represent the same subject
​VA:re8.1.1a - Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the characteristics of form.
​VA:Re9.1.1a - Classify artwork based on different reasons for preferences.
​VA:Pr4.1.1a - Explain why some objects, artifacts and artwork are valued over others.
​VA:Pr5.1.1a - Ask and answer questions such as where, when, why and how artwork should be prepared for presentation.
​VA: Pr6.1.1a - Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.
​VA:Cn10.1.1a - Identify times, places and reasons by which students make art outside of school.
​VA: Cn11.1.1a Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

OBJECTIVE/ASSESSMENT
​OBJECTIVE:
​Students will:
​- use knowledge gained from reading Charlotte's Web to create their pig.
- be introduced to new art vocabulary: Scoring, Slip and Smoothing out.
​​- paint paper and use different tools, like plastic forks, to brush strokes to create texture
​- continue to work on fine motor skills and dexterity skills to create collages
​RUBRICS:
​Students will be graded by completion.
​MATERIALS & PROCEDURES
Clay - Stoneware
​Clay Tools (bat, plastic fork, water, water can, palette knife)
Light pink glaze
​Paint Brush
​Kiln Firing cones
PROCEDURES:
Teacher led discussion about Charlotte's web where students talk about the characters.
​Students are shown examples of Wilbur the Pig Piggy Banks.
​Students are given two blocks of clay. Students roll them both into spheres and turn them into pinch pots by making depressions in the center of each sphere with their thumbs. (This lesson is an extension to last year's Pinch Pot Pumpkins).  Students flatten the mouth of each by gently tapping it on their bat.  Students take a plastic fork and score and slip the two pinch pots together.  Five cylinders are made and attached.  Four legs on the bottom of the pig. One on the side. Students use scoring, slip and smoothing out each time. Flat triangular ears are applied.  Eyes can be made by taking a pencil to the eye area or can be made by adding ovals to eye area (scoring, slip and smoothing). Students stick a pencil in the back end of the pig to allow air to escape. Pigs are collected and fired in the kiln. Students apply three coats of light pink to the pig. Pigs are collected and fired again.

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