Week of 3/13/23 - UTK, Kinder and 1st grade

 UTK and kinders returned to create paper collages this week. We looked at the below photograph and had a class discussion about what we see. Students noticed that there was a sun with yellow and orange, sky with light and dark blue and that the artist that created this used paper that was cut with scissors or ripped.

 We looked at photos of Zinnias and poppies and first drew a circle to represent the former and an organic shape for the latter. Students first used paint sticks to add details to their work like the sky, rainbow, grass, flowers and/ or the rain. They then colored in the flowers, stem and had the option to cut/ rip construction paper and add them to the flowers to complete their work.

 1st grade students worked on a book illustration! I showed them the book "Caps for sale" by Esphyr Slobodkina. This was one of my favorite stories growing up and it was exciting to share it with my students. I played the story for my students and we had a class discussion about what's on the front cover (title, author and illustrator name and illustrations), spine (title) and back cover (blurb of the story). I had a rectangular piece of poster board for each student with 2 black lines pre-drawn with a black Sharpie marker. Students wrote the title "Caps for sale" on the spine and again on the front cover along with their name. We discussed what illustrations need to be on the front cover  and drew the peddler, tree, caps, mountains and monkey(s).

Students used paint sticks to color the illustrations and then watercolors to paint their book cover. Four out of six classes illustrated the book Caps for Sale while the other two used The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.