2nd Grade Fishes

So I thought it would be cool to have the second graders make an underwater scene for their color theory project. I thought that they could have primary and secondary fishes in the water about to be eaten by a big fish. Now I saw this project somewhere on pinterest. Not sure where thou.

 They are suppose to cut the fishes our and glue them to the paper that they painted. We will see how this project goes. I will keep you updated.

Mouse Paint

I do enjoy the story Mouse Paint. It really does a great job explaining primary and secondary colors to my Kindergartners and 1st graders.The also enjoy the story. We are doing a mouse paint project. I use artforkidshub website to help the students draw some pretty good mice for their projects. The kindergartners colored the mice Primary colors and the first graders colored their mince secondary colors and did a crayon resist. I only gave them primary colors and they had to mix them to make the secondary colors.

Paint OVERLOAD!

So I had this crazy thought that all my classes should be painting last week. It was ok. It went off better then I thought. Now all of the classes did not use tempera paint. The older students used more tempera paint and the younger students use  the Liquid water color I make for our class room.
 Color study is underway.

 2nd grade did a resist with the crayons and water color paint.

3rd-5th grade are painting their reference sheets and their circles and Ice cream scoops

Hand Prints for Kindergarten

So while we are doing the mouse paint project we are also simultaneously  doing a hand print color wheel to see how we can make secondary colors. I love doing this project with my kindergartners. They are so excited to get their hands in paint and when they rub their hands together and make new colors they just lose it. They are amazed that they made green purple and orange. I usually do this project for three weeks. It helps with the mess and I can allow the whole class to get a chance and not have a big mess in my room.  

Second Grade Fishes

Second grade really came out the gate swinging. We have begun on their first project of the year. Our color wheel fishes.

Cool Site for childern

On occasions I stumble upon some amazing site for children to learn about art of to produce art. The one site I have found that I showed in class last school year is called Art for kids hub. It is a great site to inspire children to draw and feel good about something that they produced. It's a great draw along. The instructor has children draw right along with him. These videos are well put together and can hold children's interest for the entire time.

Color Theory

We are now going into our third week of school. It's been going pretty well. Going into my 4th year of teaching I am noticing how much quicker they are in producing work. It use to take them forever to finish something that should only take 15 mins to do. I am really impress so far.

 We are focused on the element of design, "COLOR". It is my favorite element to start with, for me it is easier to incorporate other elements and principals. The student love this unit and they get a chance to do a lot of painting.

 The very first thing I start off with is my slide show on color. This year was great I didn't have to start with the first 4 slides because most of the students knew all the information. Awesome! Then I show my two favorite videos on color. I love show these color videos because the kids get so excited and they actually start remembering what the colors are just from the songs.

 Everyone completes a color wheel. We often go back to them as a reference in my upper grades.  For my 3rd, 4th and 5th graders they make a study guide and a reference sheet. I test them on the color wheel each year. My 5th graders should make all A's with the exception of our new students they have seen this test at least twice.