Week of 9/16/2024 - UTK, K and 1st Grade

 This week UTK, kinder and 1st grade students had their 1ts art rotation with me!

We talked about class expectations and created works with lines.

UTK students looked at the book "The Dot" by Peter H Reynolds we discussed how everybody is an artist and that the mark that you make on paper is unique and special because "you" made it!!

After helping them write their name and room # on their paper, we used a pencil to draw a vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig-zag, wavy and broken line and traced them using a black Sharpie marker. We erased pencil lines and used circular sponge brushes to create dots in different colors by dipping them in tempera paint. I reminded students to press and lift the brushes and not drag them.

Kinder students also looked at the the book "The Dot". I had traced a large dot on a piece of 9" X 12" poster board for each student.  We used a pencil to draw a vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig-zag, curved, wavy, dotted and broken line inside and outside the dot and traced the dot and lines with a black Sharpie marker. Once done students erased the pencil lines and used glitter water colors to paint inside their dot.

1st graders looked at the book "Lines that wiggle" by Candice Whitman and and drew lines similar to kinder students. We noticed how the different lines created spaces between them. We used different glitter water colors to paint these spaces to complete our work.