KINDERGARTEN
Students read Matisse's Garden by Samantha Friedman and illustrated by Cristina Amodeo. The picture book includes reproductions of artworks by Henri Matisse. Students painted paper like Henri Matisse and will make cut outs like the artist and will be creating their own gardens.
Lines, Lines, and
More Lines! Kindergarten students explored the Artist's Toolkit by identifying lines. Students then drew lines: straight thin, straight thick, curved, wavy, zig-zag, and broken. They shared different colored markers and practiced placing the cap on the end of the marker for drawing mode and placing the cap over the tip with a "click" after completing each line. |
Family Portraits
Students have been engaging in play with materials by tracing family portrait stencils and filling in the details. This is an excellent way to practice fine motor skills and to dialogue about how many members are in their immediate families. Students also reflected on what they are thankful for . . . "my mom, my family, my pets, the teachers, friends."
Students have been engaging in play with materials by tracing family portrait stencils and filling in the details. This is an excellent way to practice fine motor skills and to dialogue about how many members are in their immediate families. Students also reflected on what they are thankful for . . . "my mom, my family, my pets, the teachers, friends."
Big Fish!
Students played with finger paint on silhouetted big fish! Students loved painting with their fingers and hands to create texture and to experiment with mixing colors. They worked together focusing on being kind to one another.
Students played with finger paint on silhouetted big fish! Students loved painting with their fingers and hands to create texture and to experiment with mixing colors. They worked together focusing on being kind to one another.
Unfired Glazed Pinch Pots
Wedge. Roll into a ball. Pinch, pinch, pinch. Air dry. Bisque Fire. Glaze. Now a Glaze Fire.
Wedge. Roll into a ball. Pinch, pinch, pinch. Air dry. Bisque Fire. Glaze. Now a Glaze Fire.
Model Magic Snowman
Kindergarten continues to work with Form, either using white firing clay to expand on prior Pinch Pot knowledge or using Model Magic to construct a snowman. Students discussed how a shape is flat and a form is three dimensional. A snowman is made of three spheres (balls). Students are expanding on their vocabulary, math skills, and creativity.
Kindergarten continues to work with Form, either using white firing clay to expand on prior Pinch Pot knowledge or using Model Magic to construct a snowman. Students discussed how a shape is flat and a form is three dimensional. A snowman is made of three spheres (balls). Students are expanding on their vocabulary, math skills, and creativity.
Mixing Primary Colors to Create Secondary Colors in a Pinch Pot
Students have been exploring the Art Elements: Color and Form. Using Model Magic, students mixed two primary colors to create a secondary color. Each student made three pinch pots:
Students have been exploring the Art Elements: Color and Form. Using Model Magic, students mixed two primary colors to create a secondary color. Each student made three pinch pots:
- blue + yellow = green
- red + yellow = orange
- red + blue = violet (purple)
Walk the Line
Students have been exploring the Art Element: Line. Students walked a line into the classroom. They made various colored lines: squiggles, waves, zig-zags, broken, straight, and spirals. Students drew lines with glue and painted and colored over dried glue lines to discover the Art Element: Texture.
Presently, students are working on the Art Element: Shape (Geometric vs. Organic) and shape recognition. Visit The Artist's Toolkit, an interactive site designed to further practice Elements of Art and Principles of Design.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html
Students have been exploring the Art Element: Line. Students walked a line into the classroom. They made various colored lines: squiggles, waves, zig-zags, broken, straight, and spirals. Students drew lines with glue and painted and colored over dried glue lines to discover the Art Element: Texture.
Presently, students are working on the Art Element: Shape (Geometric vs. Organic) and shape recognition. Visit The Artist's Toolkit, an interactive site designed to further practice Elements of Art and Principles of Design.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html