Color Theory: Warm and Cool Colors
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
2nd Grade: Sub-Lesson Lego Super-Heros
Another sub-lesson:
My second graders were challenged to change their blank Lego person in to a super hero. I requested that their first one needed to be an original design, any after that could be a hero of their choice. Is that Aqua-Man? Love my students.
2nd Grade: Louise Nevelson
2nd Grade Assemblage Art
Louise Nevelson was an artist known for her monochromatic abstract sculptures.
In the 1940s, Nevelson experimented with different styles and materials such as wood and junk that she found in the streets of New York. She began working with monochrome paint, particularly black, and assembled the sculpture pieces in groupings.
One of her famous wall pieces might be constructed from bits of old chairs, scrap wood, salvaged railings and rusted gears, but all of these disparate pieces have been abstracted into a unity of form through a single color of paint. Her artwork illustrates the power and simplicity of materials. No matter how humble the supplies those materials can create something beautiful.
1st Grade: Gertrude McFuzz by Dr. Seuss
It is my goal to attach the nearly every art lesson to literature. It seems like students today are moving farther and farther away from the written word, and it scares me. Reading together with your student or child helps them with word recognition, builds speech skills, enhances concentration, improves logic skills, and builds a foundation for future education. And reading is fun!
Today's art lesson comes from the fantastic mind of Dr. Seuss's Gertrude McFuzz. Students were asked to create their own Gertrude McFuzz right after she ate from the pill-berry bush. A berry from the pill-berry bush will make your tail feather grow. Be careful.
How many berries did you eat Gertrude?! "1000000000 and 6!" according to one little boy.
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