Catching Up

We've been to school a big 11 days since my last post on November 29.  We've had snow, snow and more snow here in East Tennessee and we just don't handle snow real well.  Two inches can shut us down and it did!  So I'm going to show off some of the art we did manage to squeeze in.

 Second Grade Scarecrows

Renoir "Movement" Paintings

 Their paintings needed to be of dancers and show that they were moving. 

The kindergartners painted some Mayflowers.

 We enjoyed our lesson on Splatter Monsters.  They had to turn their blown paint splatters into some sort of person doing something.  They were very creative!

 

 

Not sure why they are sideways.

We did some really pretty poinsettia paintings. Too bad we never went back to school after they were done so they never made it home before Christmas!

 We've started the year off studying Marc Chagall and made some pretty crayon melted stain glass windows.

My Camera Broke

I have failed to post many pictures lately since my camera flash broke and I need the flash to take pictures.  Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

Kindergarten Owls

 Second Grade Statue of Libertys

Audubon's Woodpeckers

Audubon was known for drawing more than 400 birds.  We drew 2.  The woodpecker and the flamingo.

Brief Pause In Our Year

I am still here!  I have been out for 4 weeks while I enjoy this little bit but will be back real soon with fun new projects to share!

Secondary Colors With The Kindergarteners

I was much better at giving directions this week. *wink*

Rembrandt's Stormy Sea

For the next 3 weeks we will be studying about the artist Rembrandt.  This week we read the bible story of when Jesus calmed the sea and did a stormy sea painting.  We were replicating *wink* Rembrandt's version of the story.

Their pictures were done with black crayon for the ship, blue and green watercolors for the water, and salt to "foam" the sea water!

My First Kindergarten Class of 2010

What a hoot!  I was trying so hard to be very specific since most of them are unsure of art supplies in general and I failed.  After tracing their hands I told them to "color their hands with the primary colors."  Well, I should have said, "color your PAPER hands with the primary colors."  It's going to be a fun year!