A directed drawing lesson and the use of oil pastels created these gorgeous bears 🐻
Category: Theme Activities
The Houses of the Three Little Pigs
We began with wax crayons. The students created a map with a pathway to which they added the three houses: straw, stick, and brick. They then used watercolour paints to finish off the artwork.
Goldilocks was Naughty
As part of our Fairy Tale unit we have been doing some looking at things from different perspectives. For this book the children made ‘wanted’ posters for the crimes (breaking and entering, theft, malicious damage, trespassing) perpetrated by Goldilocks.
Our Gingerbread Village
We had such a lot of fun on Wednesday when we created our individual ‘gingerbread’ houses. A huge thanks to the moms (and one dad) who came to class to help us complete these sugary creations 😋☺️
Together they make quite the wintry village.
Poppies in the style of Georgia O’Keefe
Like trees, every artist is unique …
We looked at a variety of famous artists and their work. I chose several different prints that had one thing in common – each contained at least one tree. We had a great discussion about the similarities and the differences of each artist’s style. We also discussed realism. Students then created their own art piece with the criteria that they include at least one tree. The work was completed with waxed crayons. These are on the bulletin board in the hallway and included below.
Van Gogh Sunflowers
We began with a look at Van Gogh’s artwork, with a special look at his paintings from his time in Arles in the south of France. We then used oil pastels to re-create his vase with sunflowers. Afterwards we did a blue tempera paint wash over top. They are on the bulletin board in the hallway.
100’s Day!!
We had fun doing ‘hundreds’ of things this week.
Division 7 is “Just Hanging Around …”
The ‘inspiration’ …
We did a directed drawing lesson. Students then traced their pencil lines with black pencil crayon. We had a shading / colouring lesson … students used mostly waxed crayons, with some pencil crayon additions.
The whole ‘colony’ together …
Poppies in the style of Georgia O’Keefe
We created our lovely small poppies for our Remembrance Day wreath. The outer rim are our traditional poppies, and the inner ring are from a design created by Robin Roberts, an Indigenous artist of Tsimshian, Haida, and Squamish ancestry. It will be presented at our Remembrance Day assembly tomorrow morning.
We then had a directed drawing lesson on a single poppy filling a huge paper, much as Georgia O’Keefe did with much of her artwork. Students went over their pencil lines with china grease markers and filled the centres with oil pastels. The petals were painted with red tempera paint. Once dry these were cut out and glued onto green construction paper.
