Holiday Lights

Third graders viewed a montage of holiday lights synced with music.  We discussed whether they believed it was art, technology or both.  Students had to defend their answers with specific reasons!  They then drew a silhouette of a cityscape or house.  They were then supposed to create lights on the perimeter using a q-tip and metallic paints!

Cardinals

First graders read a book featuring these two cardinals on their journey through a winter wonderland.  They then made these wonderful mixed media cardinals.  The students used cut paper for the bird and bath, yarn for the wings, sharpie for details and white paint for snow!  These were great at giving the walls a wintery feel, especially because it hadn’t snowed yet in Kansas!

Turkeys, turkeys, turkeys!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving first graders read a funny book about a turkey farm and the runaway turkeys.  They created their own turkeys using cut paper.  We painted their hand red, orange and yellow to create feathers.  They then glued their turkeys’ bodies on and added some googly eyes! We had quite a variety of turkeys!

Poppies, Poppies!

This week in Kindergarten we viewed a clip from the Wizard of Oz.  We watched it first in black and white, and then again in color.  We discussed reasons why they liked the black and white vs color.  We then watched the poppies clip.  We looked at what the poppies close up to us looked like and what they looked like as they disappeared into space. We visited the word perspective and used it to understand the space in this scene.  We used oil pastels to create the stems of the poppies.  They then painted the poppies using tints and shades of red.  The had small, medium and large brushes to create the poppies.

“We Ain’t Gunna Paint NO MORE!”

!st graders read the book “I Ain’t Gunna Paint No More” by Karen Beaumont.  They then traced their arm and decorated it with patterns and designs using neon tempera paint.