Day: 30 September 2018

The Elements of Art

On Friday we had a lesson on the ‘elements’ of art.  We discussed how elements are parts of a whole.   The six elements of art are: colour; line; shape; form; value; and texture.  To explore a few of these elements we did leaf rubbings using waxed crayons on paper.  We will explore each of these elements over the course of this school year in more depth.

Here are a few individual samples of the students’ work.  All of the art pieces are pinned to the bulletin board in our classroom.  Come by and take a peek.

Hello, my name is ….

We spent time last week working on posters to introduce ourselves.  Over the past few weeks students have been practising printing their names – especially in lowercase letters which is the normal way we do most of our writing.  They also counted to see how many letters  are in their names; thought about what is special about their names; and tried to make other words using only the letters in their names.  These posters are on the bulletin boards outside of our classroom, in the hallway.  Here are a few: