Here you can see some of the projects we have done during this past wild times! We were working online for at least 6 months! Today was set up day in the school, first day (without students) first week of 2020-2021. I am really looking forward to see the students! In the meantime you can enjoy some of the work from last academic year.
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Again the great Eric Carle. We made a painted paper lesson, it is such a fun technique, messy but fun. We first read the story, then we made the background paper and the polar bear paper. We used sponges, it is a very effective and fast technique and students love it so much. We limited the amount of colours to choose for the background to only 2.
Second day we trace the parts of the polar bear (stencils previously made) on the back side of the white painted paper, cut them and glue them to the background. Picture Alex holding his master piece We found this superfun book (actually our fantastic librarian did) and we created this 2 lesson project. Day 1: We read the story, painted the background and the paper that we will use to make the rabbit. Next lesson children will retrace some stencils of the parts of the rabbit, cut them and assamble them all (check day 2) We all love Eric Carle and his wonderful world. This time was the turn of the book "Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?" It's such a fun book. We made few stencils so the students trace, cut and glu on previously painted papers. Here's Caroline in action!
Third graders had a messy but superfun paper mache lesson. We found this storybook that fits perfectly the idea we had in mind, a flying pig! Firtst thing was to make the body of the pig with newspaper, plastic bags and masking tape. After that, we found some cardboard and time for ears and wings, again masking tape.
Second lesson is the big day. The secret is to have everything perfectly organized so you don´t waste a second. Basically newspaper strips and paper mache paste. Third and last day. Painting day. The result was really impressive and the display of them was amazing. we hung them all up at the main lobby. Clay time! We found the fantastic book the Pout-Pout Fish. We used 3 lessons, including one to introduce the clay. It is such an exciting fun time for them. Everybody loves clay. We usually have 2-3 clay lessons / year. One of them is one the most expected weeks of the year, the pottery wheel week!
Someone really special gave me this book a couple of years ago, “When Pigasso met Mootise” by Nina Laden. It is such a fun story and the perfect way to introduce Picasso and Matisse. We focused on Matisse this time. We talked about the artist and his life, we saw and discussed some of his artwork and we ended up making our very own Matisse.
Project inspired by the great Eric Carle. Duration: 2 lessons 1 hour each We found the book “The artist who painted a blue horse”, beautiful book by the way (as all the Eric Carle´s books). I am a big fan of Eric Carle´s, I love all his stories and his way of making art. We came up with the idea to make a stencil of the different parts of the horse, what made the lesson goes way smoother. That was an important part of the success of the lesson. |
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