We have had so many creative ideas in our classroom lately as we have been wondering about different signs of spring! Take a look at some beautiful art our students have created! Here you can see our classroom embracing the curriculum's "Big Idea" that young children have an innate openness to artistic activities.
We experimented blending and used our fingers to create a work of art with finger paints! Just like real artists we named our paintings - like "Rain," "Spring is Here," "Rainbow Picture" and "Sunrise Day."
V1.1 demonstrate an awareness of personal interests and a sense of accomplishment in visual arts
V2.2 explore different elements of design (e.g., colour, line, shape, texture, form) in visual arts
We have finished our self portraits and they are displayed in our cubby areas. We worked really hard to try and give our portraits the same details that we have (i.e. use a brown crayon because we have brown hair. gave our portrait glasses because we wear glasses).
We read Barbara Reid's book
Picture a Tree. We used plastercine to picture our own tree. Most of the students were so inspired by seeing tree's in the spring, they chose to picture their tree in the spring. They added leaves, buds, blossoms and even apples!
TOgether as a class, we discussed how all trees are unique. Some are small ("baby") trees and some are huge ("grandpa") trees! Some trees have different shaped, sized and coloured leaves, other trees have blossoms! Mrs. Taebpour and I loved to see all of the students creations were so different, just like trees!
We examined real trees bark and how we could make a texture similar to bark with our plastercine. The students used pencils to drag through the plastercine to create "bumps."
Miss Robertson
“Tell
me about your tree.”
“What did you do to
make your tree look so real?”
V4.1 express their responses to visual art forms by making connections to their own experiences or by talking about the form.
V5.1 communicate their understanding of something (e.g., a familiar story, an experience, a song, a play) by representing their ideas and feelings through visual art.
A.K. – “It has
flowers on it because I wanted to. First
I made this (trunk) then I made branches, then I made the flowers.”
Z.L. “I put a bird and some grass. I put green and pink leaves. I squished it on the plate. I flattened it to make flowers.
J.Lds. “It’s a
decoration tree for Christmas.”
D.M. “I put flowers and leaves and branches. I put lines on the trunk to look like a
tree.”
M.O. “This is a
fantasy tree. There are skulls, two
branches, leaves.”
E.R.(JK) “It has leaves from Canada. Somebody planted it. He didn’t know which tree would come out.”
L.S. “I put some leaves, water (red) some
branches. The pink is gooeyness.”
S.S. “I think the
season is spring because it is starting to grow buds.”
D.V. “I made it
real because the leaves are green and pink and purple flowers. I put holes in the trunk.”
E.W. “ I used
plastercine. I smushed it to make the
tree.”
J.M.X. “Tree.
Fall. Green. Brown.”
J.L. (JK) “Brown. Green. Leaves. Trunk. Sticks.”
S.Z. “I put lines
(pointing to the trunk) because I saw one like that in the book. Green leaves, and white and purple flowers. The sun is going down (pointing to the
background."
M.S. “I made a tree. It has some branches. It’s in the fall the leaves will change colour
soon.”
S.C. “It’s summer because there is birds, two
flowers, which grow. I flattened them to look like branches. I made a hole in the tree with a pencil.”
A.G. “The bark has lines. Every tree has bark.”
C.W. “I made a
squirrels house in the trunk. It’s
summer because the leaves are green. I
used a pencile to scribble the tree and make it bumpy. I used the eraser for the squirrels home.”
A.L. (SK
male) “My tree has all different
colours. I pushed the plastercine to
make it flat.”
A.L (SK
female) “My tree has a bird because that’s
where the bird lives. It is a Christmas
tree with bells and decorations.”
J.L. (SK) “I put some flowers and some leaves. Light green leaves and a hole for a squirrel
to live in and some branches.”
A.M. “On my tree I have green leaves and pink
flowers. The trunk has lots of wrinkles,
I made them with a pencil.”
V.R. “I see a tree. Purple is Barney’s colours.”
E.R. (SK) “My tree would be in the summer because of
the blue sky and the flowers.”
N.W. “It’s fun but hard because the plastercine is
hard and it was hard to decide what kind of tree to do. My tree has apples, big bark and it’s a daddy
tree because it’s big.”
E.Z. “It’s a bendy tree. I mad a tree ut it was small. I made another one and it looked (more) real. I looked at the book Picture a Tree to make it look real.
