Third Graders Have Gone Goth (ic) !

Crumple up our art? For the sake of stone texture that is just what we did after we finished drawing our Gothic style buildings… one of many lessons in our unit on Washington DC architecture! A fun interactive game we tried on stone arches and buttresses can be found at PBSLearningMedia !

 Draw with sharpies & colored pencils

 Crumple

Soak in paint water and unfold carefully

Lay flat to dry before ironing

Next week the architects designing our school will come talk to us about the process architects go through to design a building like Lafayette! After that, we will work in groups to create our own recycled material model for a new building in Washington D.C. We'll see where our imaginations and the power of teamwork take us!!!