1st Grade

  • FIRST TRIMESTER
  • Color theory lesson. Children learned how to mix two primary colors to make a secondary color. The lesson was colorwheel fish project using tempera paint.
  • Experimenting with watercolors. The children painted a colorwheel flower with watercolors. They had so much fun!
  • Square One Art project for our fundraiser...this year it is an adorable peacock painting.
  • Kandisky circle project: this was a group mural project.
  • What is texture? Children observed texture in several pieces of art. We then created texture painted paper.
  • Painted paper pumpkin project
  • Perspective! It is never to early to learn about perspective in art. This was the first time I did this lesson and most of the kids got it.
  • Soft pastel scarecrows
  • Line is an element of art. Leaf line project and printing.
  • SECOND TRIMESTER
  • clay fish
  • Read "Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli" and children drew monsters in a cityscape.
  • Observed and discussed Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
  • Tissue paper collage snowman
  • The art of paper weaving.
  • Painted penguins
  • What is a still life? The children learned about Paul Cezanne and painted a still life from observation.
  • THIRD TRIMESTER
  • Observed and discussed the artist Grant Wood and his most famous American Gothic. They learned about facial proportions and made a collograph self portrait. The most fun was printing the collograph with ink.
  • Reviewing line as an element of art. What is a sculpture? Observed the Great Sphinx and The Thnker. They made crazy line sculptures out of pipe cleaners, beads and model magic!
  • Observed and discussed Claude Monet, Impressionism and his gorgeous water lily paintings.

 
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