Week of 1/28/19
The students will be finishing up their hot air balloon paper mache.
Art- 1st/2nd Grade
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Week of 1/22/19
The students will be creating a painting of their favorite animal.
Week of 1/14/19
I will be teaching the students about primary colors and they will color a drawing with only Red, Blue and Yellow. Once they have understood the primary colors I will introduce them to artist Piet Mondrian and they will produce a painting inspired by his work.
I will also be showing them a song by OK Go that was featured in Sesame Street to further teach them about primary colors.
Week of 12/17
The students will participate in holiday crafts.
Week of 12/10
The students are learning about Wassily Kandinsky and his style of abstract art. Using their learned knowledge of his work the students are starting their own Kandinsky-inspired artwork using crayons and watercolor.
Week of 12/3
The students are learning about mosaics and creating mosaic mittens.
They are then learning about Wassily Kandinsky and his style of abstract art. Using their learned knowledge of his work the students are creating their own Kandinsky-inspired artwork using crayons and watercolor.
Week of 11/26
This week, the students will be introduced to the basics of Perspective, they will work on a perspective drawing of a winter farm field. This drawing will show snowmen and sleds in perspective and create the illusion of 3D.
Week of 11/19
No School!
Week of 11/13
I am going over rules and expectations for the classroom and then the students are doing a round robin drawing exercise.
The students are then adding to our collaborative mural, in which all of the art classes participated in. Every student is given a cube template and they are to design their "cube" to represent themselves. Each cube is then going to be posted on the hallway together to create the mural.
Week of 11/5
The students finished their own Kandinsky-inspired artwork using crayons and watercolor.
They then learned about artist Jean Arp and how he used shapes and colors to create abstract art. They then created their own Jean Arp-inspired artwork using construction paper.
Week of 10/29
The students learned about mosaics and then created their own mosaic design in the shape of a pumpkin.
They then learned about Wassily Kandinsky and his style of abstract art. Using their learned knowledge of his work the students started their own Kandinsky-inspired artwork using crayons and watercolor.
Week of 10/22
This week I taught the students about logo and package design and what goes into making a great design for a product. They then used this knowledge to create their own candy design by choosing their ingredients and creating a logo and package.
I then taught the students about perspective by explaining the history of it in art. We then created a perspective drawing of a Fall landscape using vanishing points, converging lines and horizon lines.
Week 4
This week the students designed and created their own rollercoaster using construction paper.
Week 3
The students created more Seahorses,Sharks and Fish to later be attached to the background of the mural.
At the end of the week the students created the murals on blue paper and added colorful crabs, shells and coral.
Week 2
This week, after introducing the students to the basics of Perspective, they completed a perspective drawing of a farm field filled with fruits and vegetables. This drawing showed the fruits and vegetables in perspective and created the illusion of 3D.
After this was completed. I taught the students what murals are and why they are used in different environments. They then started the Aquarium mural in which they were to mosaic Seahorses,Sharks and Fish to later be attached to the background of the mural.