Studio-Collage

 2.RL.7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in print

or digital text to demonastrat understanding of its characteristics, setting, or plot.

3PR Create artworks based on imagination and observation of familiar objects and scenes

1.1.1. Skills and techniques: Explores the tools and processes of visual arts. 

I drew a road from a vantage point, so you could see it in the distance getting smaller and smaller. There were also birds in the distance as well as clouds and then fields that were getting smaller. There was a green and red "stop" and "go" sign. This represents going home and seeing the fields as well as country stop signs, but usually no one else was around so you did not have to stop. I used glue and construction paper. I made the road big at the beginning and smaller towards the top of the page to make it look like it was getting smaller, along with the small birds in the distance. The brown fields were also made to look smaller and smaller. The collage in the right corner was a jumble of every paper used. This was made for the beginning of a story. It represents just getting into town for the start of the story. This is great for 2nd grade because they are starting to understand different points in the story, so they can pick a time and make anything they want from the story, whether it be a quick snapshot or something that reminded them of what was going in at that point in the story. (Which goes along with the standards above). They can use their imagination when reading a story to create a collage from a scene that they remember. Creating a vantage point and making it look like it has dimensions, in my opinion, would be the hardest part for second graders. You have to angle it out to make sure it looks like it is in the distance.