Joan Dedrick

As a K-6th grade visual arts teacher at Otay Elementary in the CVESD, I encourage creativity and a love for the arts.

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6th graders sketched and painted a seascape with 3 sections - the foreground, middle ground, and background. They also experimented with and developed multiple art-making techniques as they sketched and painted their seascapes.

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Then they sketched and used tempera paint to create a large sunflower painting inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork.

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Fourth grade students learned about Georgia O'Keeffe's life, artwork, and love of nature. Georgia O'Keeffe painted things she saw very large to give nature a special beauty and strenghth. After learning about Georgia O'Keeffe,, students experimented with mixing colors.

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Fourth graders learned about Georgia O'Keeffe's life and artwork and how she loved nature. Georgia O'Keeffe nature a special power and strength. ed to Then they sketched and painted large sunflowers with tempera paint

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Second graders learned about anthropologist, Dr. Jane Goodall, and how she made her childhood dream of working with animals come true as she work with chimpanzees in Africa for 30 years. Then these amazing artists used oil pastels to draw their chimpanzees in their habitat.

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Third graders enjoyed integrating NGSS and visual arts as they learned interesting facts about red-eyed tree frogs. Then they sketched and used water colors to create their red-eyed tree frog artwork.

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More 5th Grade half photo, self-portraits.

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I am so proud of Otay's Fifth Grade Students. They experimented with multiple art making techniques as they sketched their half photo, self-portraits. They also improved their artwork by improving symmetry, lines, and values.