Kindergarten : 1st NINE Weeks Wrap up

The kindergartners are no longer newbes and have finished a tone of projects for this nine weeks.
In the primary grades I am trying to make it a point to read them at least 2-3 stories every nine weeks.

 We listen to the story the rainbow fish and talked about sharing

 We also talked about Kandinsky and produced our own version of Circles.

 We drew angle fish and colored them, I also added glitter to the fins. The students really enjoyed that part. We also just followed along with the video to artforkidshub.com

I let them listen to the grouchy lady bug and we created our own grouchy lady bug.

Second Grade: 1st NINE Week Wrap up

Oh my! Its been over a month since I have posted anything. I have been a little overwhelmed with the beginning of the school year. I think I am a little caught up now.

The second Graders finished up their fish and monster projects. Most of them turned out pretty well.
They were having a hard time understanding that the fish are suppose to be the primary and secondary colors. They also kept forgetting that they were suppose to mix the secondary color.

They were also learning about Jacob Lawrence. They had a chance to make on of his paintings. They did not  use paint, I had them use oil pastels. We talked about he told any stories through his paintings. So we did the same We wrote stories about something that happened in our lives and they we illustrated it. They had to write and illustrate the story first, then they could use the oil pastels and redraw their illustration on a bigger paper.

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.

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.