Kindergarten excitedly commented on some of the heart paintings of Jim Dine. They looked at the shapes and talked about the colors. We are also learning about the primary colors and we talked about how to draw a heart. Since we only have 30 minutes together, I gave them a handout filled with hearts and they practiced drawing them be tracing and then drawing on their own. The next time we met students were given the primary colors and we talked about filling our page with a heart or many hearts. I demonstrated how to paint so we did not mix all of our colors. We wanted to be able to see our primary colors. Students were so excited to see that sometimes the primary colors mixed a little and then made a secondary color. They worked hard to paint so that they did not end up with brown hearts! We added yellow and blue squares of paper and drew hearts with blue oil pastel.
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Kindergarten listened to the story, "A Penguin Story", Antoinette Portis. In the story, Edna the penguin searches for something more in her world besides white, black and blue. Her search takes her on a great adventure! Students made their own penguin and were determined to give their penguins a rainbow of colors to see. They painted the background for their penguin and added a torn paper iceberg. We created our penguins step be step with drawing, cutting and gluing shapes. I showed students how to measure their penguin's head and make a hat out of paper. Some students had additional time to add other paper details. Last, we added show with paint. I love how every penguin had it's own personality!
Third grade drew a cat or a dog and then colored it with cool or warm colors. They used chalk pastel and blended with their fingers. Students colored the background the opposite color scheme as their animal. Students also added some details to make their art more their own. Most named their "pets"! Some of the small details were outlined with sharpie and when they were done with chalk, students traced over their pencil lines with black oil paste.
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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