This past week, I talked to the first graders about birds eye view as a new way of looking at things. I was able to use the classroom's new SMART boards to show them some helpful images and their directions (very exciting!). They then set out to make a birds eye view snowman/woman, composed of cool colors and a variety of shapes. They even had time to write a brief artist's statement about their work. I encouraged students to give their snow person a name, and describe the shapes they used.
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The class before last, the first graders practiced creating space in their artwork by using some "artist's tricks". For returning stduents this was a review from kindergarten, and they still remembered that objects appear smaller the farther away they are. They used this tool to create a night time landscape using cut paper. Nice work!
Last class, we looked at colors through a new lense: warm and cool. I then told students that today was a special day in art class, because it happened to be opposite day. We thought of animals that live in warm environments and cool environments and used that list to create warm animals with warm colors and cool animals with cool. Then- they reversed it. Their animals went on vacation to their opposite climate to show a strong contrast between colors. Once again, this bunch had a lot of creative ideas.
Last week, the first graders finished up their ROY G BIV portraits. After using a crayon to add texture to their background, they used primary colors to mix the colors of the rainbow. They then applied the color to their hair in rainbow order. I created and lamniated a simple chart of the correct order and formula for mixing colors, and observed a lot of students trying to remember what to paint and how to make it, and then referring to the chart. I'll try to remember this for similiar situations!
I love how these turned out- such a wide range of creative hairstyles and overall characters. |
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