Jeff Davis Projects

TERM 1 – Language Arts/Science (5^th grade group A weaving, 3^rd grade turkeys)

Aug 11-13       Intro

Aug 16-17       Intro

*Aug 18-20     Dragonfly poem

                        5^th grade – group A Weaving – set up looms

Aug 23-26       Van Gogh – Sunflowers (Camille and the Sunflowers)- Still-life

Aug 30-Sept 3 Cezanne – Fruit (???) – Still-life

Sept.6-10 (Monday holiday) Leonardo da Vinci –Vegetables (???) – Still-life

Sept. 13-16      Matisse – Objects -Patterns (A Bird or Two) – Still-life

Sept. 20-24      Faith Ringgold – Bridges/Night Sky (Tar Beach)

Sept 27-Oct. 1 Franz Marc – Farm Animals (Click Click, Clack)

Oct. 4-8           Grame Base – Wild Animals (Waterhole)

                        3^rd grade turkeys (wet clay)

Oct. 11-15       Eric Carle – Sealife (House for Hermit Crab)

                        Marine Education Calendar

                        5^th grade group A – complete weaving

TERM 2         Math/Science (5^th grade group B weaving, 3^rd grade turkeys)

Oct. 18-21       ??? – Symmetry (Stellaluna) Bats

                        5^th grade group B Weaving – set up looms

Oct. 25-29       Charles Shultz - ??? (The Great Pumpkin) Cartooning

                        3^rd grade – paint turkeys

Nov. 1-5          Kandinsky – geometric shapes

Nov. 8-11        Matisse – organic shapes - collage

Nov. 15-19      Patterns in Nature k-2

                        Radial Weaving (3-5)

                        Return Turkeys to 3^rd graders

Nov. 22 & 23 Professional Development

*Nov. 29-Dec. 3 (Friday PL)   ???

                        Continue radial weaving (3-5)

                        4^th weaving – set up looms

                        Sub plan for Friday

*Dec. 6-10 (Monday PL)  ??? Radial Design

                        sub plan for Monday

Dec. 13-17      origami

Dec. 20-22 (Wed., 1/2 day)     origami