1st grade has been reviewing their knowledge of FORMS (3D shapes) and learning about 1 point perspective! They created rocket ships flying through space using basic geometric shapes and perspective. After coloring with crayon students painted with watercolor.
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K's and 1st jumped right into Read Across America week. Students read excerpts from Dr Seuss's One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and examined illustrations. Kindergarten focused on the fish characters and then created their very own. 1st grade imagined and designed a character that was human, animal, or something new. They also answered critique questions about their characters. All students had to create characters with unique colors, sizes, shapes, emotions, and actions. Students brought their character illustrations home this week and I hope they inspired some fun conversations! Kindergarten got messy and creative with this project! First they discussed and critiqued art by local folk artist, John Cornbread Anderson, and American folk artist Rose Rosely. With a close eye on the use of color, students painted paper using analogous color schemes and patterns. Once the painted paper was dry, students cut, tore, traded, and glued to get these crazy, wild, funky chicken collages. Each finished chicken will be part of our KSE Farm wall after some of our other fabulous art comes down.
1st grade has been learning about the artist Georgia O'Keefe. We have been focusing on her enlarged flower paintings. Students learned how to zoom in and draw big. After several sketches they chose 1 flower to paint. Using the primary colors plus black and white, students had to make secondary colors, tertiary colors, and values! Each project is the result of a lot of hard work and patience. Way to go 1st grade!
Kindergarten has been working hard on their snow people creations. We drew our inspiration from Caralyn and Mark Buehner's Snowmen at Night and Snowmen at Work books. Students are working hard to create snow people that are unique and different from one another. They are even giving their snow people some 3D elements!
1st grade was inspired by Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Using dice, they rolled and created their very unique wild things. After exploring our texture plates, and some textures around the room, they started adding textures to their own creations. Students will be turning their wild art into stick puppets so we can have our very own "wild rumpus" party. During block day students are exploring 3D materials. They are using modeling clay to create sculptures that pop up off the table and stay up. Students are experimenting with paper pop up techniques in our "pop up card" center. They are even collaborating in teams to build cities using blocks and tangrams. I love that they get this extra art time to explore materials and just have fun with it! Do you know what happens to objects as they get farther away? 1st grade does! 1’s had to design and draw a pumpkin patch that showed a foreground, mid-ground and background. Students demonstrated how objects look smaller as they get farther away and how they appear to move up the page! They had to fill up the space by adding extra details to make their pumpkin farm look unique. After tracing with crayons they painted their masterpieces using the colors Kindergarten made. They had to help problem solve when colors didn't look quite right. Great job 1st grade! Can you IDENTIFY the SECONDARY colors? Can you make the SECONDARY colors using PRIMARY colors? Kindergarten can! K’s used the 3 primary colors RED, YELLOW, and BLUE to make the secondary colors PURPLE, GREEN , and ORANGE. They used the paints they made to finish these awesome pumpkin drawings! They had to draw ovals or circles, contour lines, wavy lines, and free form shapes! Way to go Kindergarten artists |
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