Week of 2/13/2022 - Textures

This week was all about textures! I had kinder students work on a collaborative artwork to hang in the hallway outside their classrooms. I have 6 kinder classes in all and this lesson took quite a bit of planning.

The tables in my classroom are color coded - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. I set up a plastic bin at each table with 1/4 sheets of card stock in different shades and tints. Michaels has these for all the 6 colors! I also had metallic markers and yarn. After showing students objects and having them come up with words for how they would feel if touched, I introduced the word 'texture' to them. Each student created a sandy, rough, furry and bumpy texture on separate pieces of paper after cutting them into organic shapes. They then glued them on to an open spot on the black board. We worked on this over the course of this week and it was great to see how each class added shapes to create the below collaborative artwork. I can't wait to display these next week.

                                                          

1st graders worked on creating textures with clay. I have 6 1st grade classes and grouped 2 classes to work on one project. The first 2 worked on clay fish, the next 2 on a mug and last 2 on birthday cakes all using the pinch technique and using slipping and scoring to join clay pieces together. They used tools to add textures to complete their works.