Here is a sneak peek at the last project of the year: big, beautiful insects. The students learned all about insect body parts. They learned how to draw the insect they chose REALLY BIG. They constructed their insect out of different colors and patterns. To finish it off, they added their insect to a watercolor background and added foliage. Creepy and Stunning!
We learned about Gerhard Richter and the way he paints. Just like Jackson Pollock, Richter has created his own, un-copyable method- he uses a squeegee to smear the paint after he paints it. He does a lot of abstract work this way. After watching this video of Richter painting,
(http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gerhard+richter+method+video&view=detail&mid=AFBFDEA88953DFD94ECEAFBFDEA88953DFD94ECE&FORM=VIRE) we tried this method for ourselves. We spooned paint onto our paper. Then we used plastic rulers to thin the paint out. The colors are amazing, the results are truly special! Wow. The 2nd graders have been working hard on these abstract name projects. They first wrote the letters of their name 3-5 times, then added colors, shapes and lines to create these very different projects. I just love seeing them all together!
You may have heard that your student has been working with clay! They created pinch pots and turned them on their side. Then they added monster details. With a few mishaps, we got them fired, glazed, and fired again. I pulled them out of the kiln on Friday, Feb 26-- so most of the kids haven't seen theirs yet. Next week we will wrap them and send them home! So exciting!
While waiting on our clay monsters to get finished, second grade has been working on texture and line. They created these texture landscapes by learning about foreground, middle ground, and background. They used lines to represent different landforms. Then they filled in their shapes with different textures and colors, creating these amazing landscapes you just have to see to believe.
Excuse the lack of pictures here. Before Winter Break, the second graders made very cool Mitten Prints! They learned about different kinds of lines. Then they created mitten stencils using a Styrofoam plate. They put white paint on the mittens and created a print. Then they used construction paper crayons to add some colors around the mittens. Many of them looked very cool. And hopefully they are hanging on your wall right now!
Second graders used only 3 colors of crayon to create these projects : blue, yellow, and red. They should have created 9 different colors-- the secondaries (green, orange, and purple) and the intermediates (yellow green, blue green, yellow orange, red orange, red purple, blue purple). Wow! They all turned out so original and eye-catching!
Second grade is designing and coloring these projects using only BLUE, YELLOW, AND RED crayons. Their goal is to create 9 different, distinct colors: Secondaries (orange, green, and purple) and intermediates (yellow-orange, red-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, red-violet, blue-violet). It's a challenge but they are turning out as pretty as stained glass windows. And we only used 3 colors of crayon! Amazing!
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. First and second grade made colorful bubbles with straws and then pressed a piece of paper on top to create bubble prints! It was really cool when the blue, yellow, and red mixed to create other colors. (Sorry about the picture quality, they are cooler in person!)
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