Our first meeting of the year is an introduction to what we'll be learning in art, along with a discussion of the expected behaviors of students (the essential agreements). I play my guitar and we sing our "Art Day" song. I also include a little bit about myself and my life as an art teacher.
Students are being introduced to color theory with the color wheel. We are learning how colors blend to make other colors. After viewing pictures of suns on google, students learned scissors safety and we talked about how to hold scissors and turn paper while cutting out a shape. We previously saw how paper is made, and practiced tearing paper correctly to get long strips (reciprocal tearing). We used this same idea to make the rays of the paper sun. This is our first year implementing our Young Fives art program. This is the only grade level that comes to art every week for a half hour, so students are seen more often, but for half the time as the rest of the grade levels.
As of this posting, students have been introduced to classroom procedures, including safety with using some of the art room tools and materials. Students have also worked on two projects and learned how we use centers in art for continued learning when projects are completed early (or one day when half of class was out sick!). There will be much more, along with some pictures, to come soon. |
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