Sorry for the late post! Last week, the kindergarteners worked together to complete their storybook land murals. They took turns coming up to the board and decided where to place their characters and elements of setting. They continued to add embellishments and final details and practiced putting their small trees in the background and bigger trees up front to show space. Yesterday, I worked with the teachers to help them complete their gingerbread men and women characters. They had some amazing ideas!
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On Friday, the kindergarteners began creating characters and elements of a setting from some of the books they've read this year with their classroom teachers. Next week, they will work together to create a scene with their amazing drawings, keeping in mind what they've learned about perspective. Each table was assigned a book, and each child, a character/piece of scenery. I gave them images for reference and they honestly blew me away with their drawings. I provided them with small, medium and large paper and talked to them about scale. It would not make sense for our 3 little pigs to be larger than their house, or they wouldn't fit! Students had to select the paper size that they thought appropriate. I am really looking forward to see all of this artwork come together.
Each class, I pull out my elements of art chart and go down the list of what we've learned so far. On Friday, I introduced the concept of perspective as a way to creating an illusion of space on a flat piece of paper. With the help of two volunteers, the kindergarteners observed their friends appearing smaller as they moved away from the group. Following this idea, students created a fores, by placing large trees in the foreground, medium sized trees in the middleground and small trees in the background.
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