On Friday, I talked with the kindergarteners about all of the details they could add to their self portraits, from their eyebrows down to their toes. Students did a great job drawing themselves (and for a lot of them, their matching clothes from that day!) They then cut out their portraits and glued them on top of their texture leaf rubbings from the previous week to create a birds eye view portrait of them laying in a leaf pile. This project was inspired by the following poem, which I shared with the kinders.
Autumn Leaves One of the nicest beds I know isn't a bed of soft white snow, isn't a bed of cool green grass after the noisy mowers grass, isn't a bed of yellow hay making me itch for all a day-- but autumn leaves in a pile that high, deep, and smelling like fall, and dry. That's the bed where I like to lie and watch the flutters go by. Author: Aileen Fisher
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On Friday, the kindergarteners bravely volunteered to reach their hand in my mystery box, pull out an object and describe how it feels. I told students that the words they used to describe what they felt are words that describe texture (smooth, bumpy, rough, scratchy, soft). Students then used their crayons to find the texture of some leaves from outside, and proceeded to make leaf rubbings. Using water colors to fill in the white spaces, students made their leaf lines pop. This project is part one of two and will be our background for the coming week!
On Friday, the kindergarteners reviewed those tricky names for lines from the previous week- horizontal, vertical and diagonal. I then read them "When a Line Bends, A Shape Begins" by Rhonda Growler Greene. Greene's book describes geometric shapes and gives a wonderful rhyming list with matching illustrations of examples. Students tried making the shapes with their hands as I read. The kindergarteners then spotted shapes all around the room and set out to use pre cut shapes to design their art. Finished work included houses, robots, cars, trucks, gardens, parks, and more. Students were also welcome to cut and alter shapes as well to make their picture complete.
Another job well done! Sorry for the delayed post! This past Friday, I talked with the kindergarteners about lines. We started by looking at the line samples on my Elements of Art Chart. We practiced using our arms to show vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, and I read "Lines that Wiggle" by Candace Whitman. This book gave students great examples of the endless possibilities of line directions. Students soon realized that there are lines all around us. They then set to work to use the ever fun, construction paper crayons to make their lines, seemingly glow on their black paper. I asked them to draw as many line types as they could think of- thin, thick, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, swirly, curly, wavy, dotted, you name it! After that, students used LINES to draw anything they wanted to on the back of their paper. Some students had time to bend and twist pipe cleaners into a variety of lines, and stick them into a collaborative group sculpture.
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