I'm just loving these Kindergarten self-portraits. They make me smile with delight! The children have really been putting thought into expressing themselves and are taking the time to make decisions in their artwork. One of my students said to me in class, "I can't find a dirty blond crayon. What crayon should I use?" I showed her how to layer yellow and brown to get the right hair color to match hers.
The students worked hard and are so proud of their finished portraits that they arebeaming with joy. I had to take pictures to share!
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A self-portrait drawing is one of my favorite end-of-year projects to do with students. I love how their personalities shine through. It's a great way to showcase everything they have learned in art and in the regular classroom. I am so proud of the growth I see through this project. Many of my K's came into day one of art class not knowing how to use scissors correctly or how to write their name properly. The last day of art, here they are cutting the curvy lines of picture frame out and asking if they can write their names fancy. WOW! I am amazed. These are truly masterpieces!
Kindergarten at Summerside Elementary has been studying the warm and cool colors. We drew snowmen with a cool watercolor background and then a melted snowman in the "warm" color background. To understand what a melted snowman would look like, the students watched a time-lapse video of a snowman melted and drew what they saw. I enjoyed watching their reactions. To complete their work, kindergarten practiced using Elmer's glue to attach their art to the purple paper and created a snowflake picture frame around it. Nice work Kindergarten!
Mrs. Gebauer's 2nd grade artists recreated my favorite Monet painting in today's art class. We have been talking about warm and cool colors in art class and found a little extra time to make a small Monet painting. Students used oil pastels to draw and then used blue, green, and purple watercolor paints to wash over it. Very beautiful!
For our color rotation, students at all levels have been enjoying this video by OK GO! I love the creative way they show colormixing and it helps the students remember how to create secondary colors from the primary colors. Warning, it's very catchy. First graders at Summerside Elementary learned about the primary colors by studing and painting like artist Piet Mondrian. We review horizontal and vertical lines and how to create shapes by criss-cross our lines. Rectangles and squares were filled neatly in with tempra paint. Nice work 1st grade!
Mrs. Setter's Kindergarteners at Summerside Elementary learned about primary and secondary colors today by creating their very own colorful lady bugs. If you look closely, the two different color wings tells you what two primary colors are mixed together to get the secondary color of the bug's body. For example, blue and yellow make green. We also had time to sneak some math facts in, such as, two halves make a whole as we made the wings. We finished this fun lesson by reading Eric Carle's The Grouchy Ladybug.
The texture castles above were created by First Graders at Summerside Elementary. During our texture rotation, 1st graders are learning how to use shapes to create their own castle and then use special stickers to create the texture of bricks. They also have the option of using texture plates to create other design textures in their grass and sky. They loved using stickers to build strong castles and liked coloring over the bumps to create the brick texture. I enjoyed seeing they drawings unfold as they added details from their imaginations like fire-breathing dragons and of course self-portraits as queens and kings.
Mrs. Hayden's 2nd grade class at Summerside enjoyed learning different ways to make textures in their project. To create the texture of water, students used watercolor paint and laid plastic wrap over it as it dried overnight. The next art class, students used texture plates and crayon to create fun scales on their fish. The second graders were very proud of their work! Way to go!
As a member of The Ohio Art Education Association (OAEA) I attended this year's conference held in Cincinnati. It was a worthwhile day of Professional Development. I attended workshops on hot topics like TAB (Teaching for Artist Behavior), encouraging students to use critical thinking /21st Century Learning, and Multiculturalism as well as getting great lesson ideas for elementary art. The networking was great and I came home inspired with new ideas I want to incorporate into my classroom! |
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