Spring! Spring! Spring!

The snow has not melted but we are feeling Spring in the classroom! We continue to discuss Matisse and his many talents such as, cut paper designs. With Matisse as inspiration students created these wonderful flower scenes.

Letter of the Week!

Each day we focus on a new letter and try to come up with words that begin with it. Today the letter was K. This is a funky kangaroo. After lunch students take out their notebooks and draw a picture beginning with the letter of the day and label it. We have been having a great time coming up with new vocabulary this way and practicing drawing skills!

Pattern Play

We have been discussing Matisse quite a bit lately because the Matisse exhibit is at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. We have been focusing on his use of pattern mainly. To practice, each student had a worksheet like this (see below) to fill in with different patterns.

 

This student was experimenting with letter patterns.

Keith Haring Olympic Art

We took a look at some Keith Haring art for inspiration last week. 

Since we spent quite a while discussing the Olympics and they came to a close I thought it would be a fun idea to create an Olympic person in the spirit of Keith Haring!

 

I wanted to share this lovely shadow patterned nature shot. 

The blanket of white does offer a nice background..... if nothing else :)

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

 This week we looked at Kandinsky's Concentric Circles and the kids made their own version with hearts!

Happy Chinese New Year

Year of The Horse!

Triangle Trees

We have started a unit looking at shape. We have been discussing what you can turn different shapes into. Below is an example of a little forest project that we did....