Ms. Engel's Art Room
"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse
This past week included so many colors that a rainbow would be jealous...! The Kindergartens have begun learning about primary colors and the 'magic' that happens when you mix them together. I love telling them that they'll be making magic during the class - and I love seeing their reactions, as they smoosh two pieces of model magic together while awaiting the results. Model magic is indeed magic and it works so well for this color wheel lesson. Mixing paint will happen, but I feel that if a creative mess can be put off a little longer - why not?! Plus, the model magic is great for building those fine-motor skill :) Once they were done mixing their new colors, they had to find the corresponding crayon colors and fill in their color wheel. P.S. I didn't tell the little guy with the color wheel over his face to do so (y'all know about those photo release guidelines...). Instead, this was his unprompted expression after completing all the colors - and thus, made for a great photo op! ______________________ Third graders are working with warm and cool colors, which can be used for so many cool projects (no pun intended!). Last week, they used tissue paper to create a background with half warm and half cool colors - and this week they began adding their lighthouses to them. It's great seeing a whole class get into their creative groove and make their work their own! ______________________
Be there or be SQUARE! Students in other classes are working on Mondrian-esque pictures, painting squares like Paul Klee and creating square patterns for paper mosaics!
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When deciding to create a blog for my classrooms, I hadn't quite thought ahead to when I'd have the time to post.. :)
While the past week and a half has been pretty busy from a teacher perspective - the students have also been busy having fun and making art! Kindergartners learned that making 'mistakes' in art is okay, after reading Beautiful Oops and making new pictures from ripped up newspaper. Some kindergartners are also learning about primary colors and the first graders are learning about lines. Second graders already learned about a new artist, Paul Klee, and painted a cat portrait! Third, fourth and fifth graders started the year by making goals for themselves and showing how they're reaching for them by tracing their hands and adding designs inside. Here are a few examples of what students have been up to... I'm excited to say that we are officially in "art-making" mode! Today was the first day back at the Brown School and, thanks to some rooms being moved around, the art room has WAY more space (which equals WAY more fun..)!
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December 2016
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