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.

Last week of school

So I found this awesome draw along video on you tube. The website is Artforkidshub.com. It has amazing drawing for children of all ages to do and the guy that does the videos has his children draw along with him, so I like the fact that children are on this video also. I did this video with all grade levels. We drew minions! I think they did a great job.

Project Overload: First Grade

We have been learning about underwater animals this nine weeks in class. This is a time I like to combine recycled materials and our learning of animals into several projects. So our first animal was a STARFISH. I like this project with 1st graders, they are always super excited when I show the videos and pictures and of course I am jumping around all over the place.

 The first day they painted a toilet paper roll.

 So what I had them do  on the next day was on blue paper draw and under water scene and they cut into their toilet paper roll so that they had five pieces. I hot glued the pieces together( we are on a time crunch so I glued them together, it went faster) I then drizzled regular elmer's glue on them and they added sand to their star fish. The it was glued to their papers and taken home the same day.

Project OverLoad 1st Grade- Kindergarten

So the 1st graders and Kindergarten class have been heavy into Chinese culture. I have to say I had a great time with these projects and I learned a lot about Chinese culture also. I had to do research to make sure I was teaching the correct information. I am super impressed with the work my students have turn in this nine weeks. I think I did a better job teaching it then last year.

 

 We made the Chinese scrolls again in 1st grade. This time we used watercolor paper. I like it so much better.

 In first grade we also made the cherry blossoms. This project is quick and my students love blowing the paint through the straws.

 The Kindergartners are learning about Chinese Dragons and symbols.

Hello 2014

I have been so awful. I didn't post anything for the month of January. Getting back into the swing of thing after the break is a little hard sometimes.Well let's get into it. First I attended the AOE winter conference! It was great and full of some much information. I loved it!!!

Now this nine weeks is our multicultural Unit.We are studying a couple of different cultures This unit is fun! Different grade levels are studying different cultures.

 Kindergarten is studying Chinese Art

 Second Grade is taking a look at some ancient  Mexican art, mostly learning how to weave

First grade is learning about Chinese art also.

The 3rd graders are learning Ancient Egypt 

The 4th graders are learning about Ancient Greece and The 5th graders are learning about Mayan Civilization.

Radial Symmetry

I have decided to finish out the nine weeks with a radial symmetry lesson. The first graders learned about radial symmetry through a slide show and examples. After that we went over how to create a radial design. They did a fantastic job.

City scapes

So to further enforces the idea of symmetry i decided to do a city scape reflections project. I would like to say I am so awesome and I came up with the idea myself, but I must give credit where credit is due PINTERST!!!!  There tons of ways to do this lesson. I made this a one class time project.
I have to say they did a great job!!! I even put some of them in an upcoming art show.

 These are my mine.

To see more of these city scape reflections view the sabal palm art gallery on artsonia.