Students in Kindergarten have been working a lot on colors and lines. The students used paper strips to do all sorts of crazy kinetic things to make these line sculptures. We talked about how sculptures are 3D and can be seen from multiple sides. In the next lessons, students learned more about lines and their names!
The kindergarteners have been working on drawing what they see, not what their brain tells them to draw. This is a surprisingly hard thing to do! Resisting the urge to draw "typical" flowers, we looked at large sunflower plants over 2 classes and drew what we saw. We also learned all about Vincent van Gogh and the characteristics of his paintings (including, of course, The Sunflowers). The students colored their sunflowers with construction paper crayons and added some of van Gogh's signature dashed lines and swirls in the back. Then they painted watercolor for the background. Some of the paintings achieved the geometric shape patterns using none other than... saran wrap! Only the paintings that were really wet pulled this off. You might be wondering if van Gogh himself created these sunflowers, but no, actually they were made by our talented kinders! :)
The kindergarteners are learning about Keith Haring. They drew some of his iconic people and dogs (they are so simple and cool looking!) We talked about how Haring's pictures told a story, and he used different images to stand for different things. For this large installation we had our friends lay down in a movement pose and then we traced them and cut out the shape. We called them colorful shadows. Now all they need are some movement lines!
The students have been learning about Piet Mondrian, who was in pursuit of a balanced painting using only white, black, and the primary colors. This goes perfectly with our study of primary colors and lines! The students created a Piet Mondrian painting using black strips of paper that created horizontal or vertical lines. Then they added the primary colors (the tricky part was cleaning their brush well enough that they didn't accidentally get secondary colors-- that's our next project!)
:) The kindergarteners worked on these silly face pumpkins-- Mrs. Cox's class got theirs finished just in time for Fall Festival! They painted a paper with orange, yellow, and white. The next day we did a lot of trimming and created these hilarious and very original faces! Since Friday was moustache day for United Way, some pumpkins had moustaches as well!
Kindergarten has been working on a unit on line and color. They listened to Peter and the Wolf and drew what lines they thought conveyed the music. Then they learned about the rainbow and the order of the colors and painted those on top. They are truly beautiful and a nice introduction to painting and art for kindergarten!
Since we're on a four day rotation, I have the same class on Monday and Fridays. In order to not get too ahead of the other classes, we do a fun one-day lesson on these Fridays. In Kindergarten, we learned about color! We read White Rabbit's Color Book, watched a short video clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ) and made balloon prints! As a class, we used blue, yellow, and red paint. The students dipped the balloons in paint and printed them onto the poster. It really got interesting when the colors started mixing! We created orange, purple, green, and even brown! Gorgeous!
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