Week of 1/13/2025 - UTK, Kinder and 1st grade - Week 2

 This week UTK students returned to create owls based on the book "Little Owl's Night" by Divya Srinivasan. The sweet story is about a bay owl that enjoys a lovely night in the forest visiting his friend the raccoon, listening to the frogs croak and the crickets chirp, and watching the fog that hovers overhead. The illustrations are beautiful and as I read the story I pointed  how the owl has large circular eyes, patterns on its wings and the colors of the night. Once done reading the story, students traced the body of an owl using a template provided with a pencil. They then traced it using a white Prismacolor pencil, added the face with eyes, beak, wings with patterns and a tree branch. They used oil pastels to color the owl by blending colors.

Kindergarten students created a still life of  mug with a handle. We looked at several example of still life artworks by various artists to understand what qualifies as a still life. Students created line patterns on a piece of card stock using markers and then folded the sides. On a larger card stock, they created a table line, glues the mug by curving it and pressing the sides. They folded and glued a paper strip for a handle and used white paint stick to create steam. They also added line patterns on the "table" in their work.

1st graders create artworks combining organic and geometric shapes inspired by the work of artist Reggie Laurent! They were given scrap booking paper in different patterns and colors in a variety of sizes. Students drew the shapes they wanted, arranged it on a 12" black card stock and glued their pieces. They also used a silver marker to create a line around the shapes similar to what the artist creates in his works to tie in the shapes together.