First grade began the day by watching the reading of the story "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus", you can find the you tube link here. After watching the video, we talked about the characters in the story and the plot. We discussed what happened throughout the story, how the pigeon probably felt, and what happened at the end. We all felt bad for the pigeon; so we decided to throw him a party to cheer him up and show him that he is still loved! Wow these kids knocked these marvelous paintings out in ONE day! FABULOUS! We drew with india ink, painted with watercolors, and drew with crayons...wheh! We talked about colors, lines, and shapes. Finally we talked about how to FILL the SPACE of our paper. What a day and what a fabulous lesson! If you want, here is the lesson plan!
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This is one of my favorite projects to do, you can find the lesson here or download it here. It is a pretty big deal! All my third grade students discuss character traits and motivation when they are reading stories. This is a nice ELA integration. They then take notes on the physical characteristics of the wild things they see in the you tube video of Where the wild things are. We talk about how authors use lots of adjectives to describe the characters but artists draw lots of details instead of using words. When the students are finished taking notes. We look at the wild things and notice they are mash-ups of different animals. That is the student's project. They are to use their notes and imagination to create their own animal mash-ups. They sketch their ideas in their sketchbook then draw their final on a larger piece of paper. We used oil pastels to color and black acrylic paint to really make our wild things pop by adding a nice solid black outline. We then cut them out and glue to a colorful piece of construction paper. Last we fill out information about our wild things! Finally, when every third grade student is finished, all the drawings from the whole grade level are sent to McEachern High School to their art department. The art teacher there will pass them to her honors students to select one to turn into a 3-dimensional sculpture. Next they will be sent to Cooper Middle school to that art teacher. Her students will turn the very few that were selected into a comic strip. The final step is the all these students to write letters to each other. We then take all the artwork and letters and host a large reception and show where all the ES, MS, and HS students get to meet each other. I love this project, it demonstrates the true spirit of collaboration on a vertical scales as well as integrations with other subjects.
Wow this was an incredible one day project! I drew a square on laminated white computer paper then rolled printmaking ink in the box. I showed the students how to draw with Qtips then how to print. Needless to say they were blown away and excited to start. We talked about a single interesting image and how to fill up the rest of the space of their work. I really enjoyed this project, its simplicity yet creativity really gave each and every student a chance to shine. Job well done Kindergarten!
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