3rd, 4th and 5th Grade Color Wheel Project

So this year I though it would be fun to do a painted color wheel project in addition to color wheel that they color for their test, which is coming up in two weeks. Before we even start I wanted them to get use to mixing paint. So first order of business was to do a reference sheet. The color wheel is also a reference sheet but this sheet would have swatches  and information to help remind them of what they did, so when they did the actual project they can refer to the sheets to complete the work.

 I did this in college in my color theory class. The students have to glue the swatches they painted on to the paper and then tell me the color and how they made it. Of course they would just name the primary colors.
 I had them rename the colors something fun like yum yum yellow or funstatic red. Heehee those were my names for my colors. All 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students are doing this before they even start on their project.

 So this is the teacher sample I made to show the students and to see if I like the idea. I think it's ok, but the students like it so we will go with it. This one is for the 5th graders.( I printed this guy off the internet to show the students what I want them to look like. Still not sure if I am going to use them or just print some cartoon character and let them cut it out instead. Stay tuned)

This is another teacher sample. I printed the little girl from the internet to show the students what they would be doing. This one is for 4th Grade

Third graders are doing ice cream scoops and cones. I forgot to take a picture. I will place it in another post or this one.

Second Grade Color wheel.

So of course I love love love Pinterest. There are million and one ideas to explore. This idea for the second grade color wheel came from no other then Pinterest. I found the art teacher's website( Tiny artroom) the a did this project with her class so I thought it would be great for my students. Second Grade is doing an umbrella color wheel.  I walked them through the drawing on my lovely wonderful Promethean Board and then I rolled out the paint palettes. ( They prepared their tables to paint of course before any paint was given) Students love to paint! We just started I will post some pictures when they are done but for now here are the begining stages.

COLOR COLOR AND MORE COLOR

So we are already in the 5th week of the first nine weeks. The time seems to be flying. Our whole focus point for this nine weeks is working and learning about the element of Design Color. When I put together the lessons for the nine weeks I usually focus on one element. It doesn't mean I am not going to cover some or all the other ones but it's the main focus of our lesson. So here we go:

Kindergarten has been completing a color wheel and learning about mixing colors. So I had them to make a color wheel with finger paint. They had the opportunity to get messy with the color and stamp all over their paper. They also had the change to mix the colors together...dare I say it... with their hands. I love the look on their faces when they have realized they have made green. It's classic. We also read Mouse Paint.

First Grade has also completed a color wheel after reading the story Mouse Paint we created our own mouse color wheel with crayons. We also read the book "The Dot" and created our own dot master pieces by using only primary and secondary colors. They really like this project I had different materials on each table and gave them 5 minutes to work at each table and then they switched.

 These turned out well. There are some that did not do so well but they will get better as the school year progresses.

 This was intended to be a color wheel, but we all had trouble because of the excitement of finger painting so I just left as a hand print primary and secondary exploration.

TECHNOLOGY IS AWESOME!!

Now my most favorite pieces of technology are my Promethan Board and my document camera.
I love it! I can read a story and the children can see the pages so clear. I can demonstrate a technique and the students can follow me and see it clearly on the the Promethan Board.

Here are some of the videos we have seen in class. Like most of us I found them on Pinterest. Yea! They also pass the clean video search test at the school. Here is the link to the other video, It is on Vimeo, Can't mix your Primary Colors.

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