Sunset Silhouettes

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This is the first time I've taught this lesson, and got the idea from some awesome sources on Pinterest! Fourth grade artists talked about when they can see silhouettes, where they've seen them, and how to include detail (on the edges) without adding detail (to the inside of the form)! This was challenging for the students because they were presented with many images for inspiration, but NO TRACING was allowed! They had to break down their chosen silhouette subjects into shapes, and draw from observation as best they could. I think they did a wonderful job! Click to enlarge! 

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Tar Beach!

Love me some cross-curriculum connections!

 The lovely librarians asked me if I could relate an Art lesson to their first grade Caldecott unit for Reading Week this year. I spotted Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, and jumped on it! In Art, we talked about the meaning of a "tar beach", and the different ways the main character used her imagination in the story. 

We then, as a class, named different places we would love to fly over, and make our own. They came out wonderfully!  

Next time, I might have them look up different places and landmarks for more of a 
variety of locations - there were a lot of bird's eye views of Paris the first time around! Here are some of the results from the Tar Beach lesson! 

   

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Swimmy!

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This lesson is the largest the kindergarten artists take on during the school year! This lesson takes about 5 weeks, because we really concentrate on mixing our primary colors to create secondary. The first three weeks we create purple, orange, and green. We read books specific to the color (for example, Little Blue and Little Yellow), and really get in depth about proper mixing. 

The last two weeks are dedicated to tracing fish shapes on our secondary colors we've created, cutting them out, and adding lots of details for our Swimmy oceans. This is the time of year when the kinder students really need to absorb color theory, and this lesson really facilitates that! Take a look at some great examples! (click to enlarge)

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