Kindergarten Portraits

Background made on a paper towel with watercolor

Self portraits made in the computer lab with MS Paint

Math Plus Art =Smart

Summer Bucket List

Summer Bucket List

Have students watch this short video about a young boy who will go blind.  He has a bucket list of things he wants to do before he goes blind.  The video shows one of them.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/02/health/blind-child-bucket-list/

Here is another video:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/01/blind-wish-list-dallas-texas/8554135/

Students will draw a bucket and draw inside of it things they would like to do this summer.

Bubbles

K-2 Lesson on how to draw a bubble!

Intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTsBKXlCI4&list=PL_1xSV7crFiWMvdekjacGYmGSS2wplV1M&index=22


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGMG06sd38&index=23&list=PL_1xSV7crFiWMvdekjacGYmGSS2wplV1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCiybJeP2w&index=24&list=PL_1xSV7crFiWMvdekjacGYmGSS2wplV1M

Watch bubble videos:
http://vimeo.com/55151810


Bubbles from baris parildar on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/21510156

Bubbles from gabriela zapata on Vimeo.


Blow some bubble for the class.  Ask students to observe the properties of the bubbles.  Tell them to look for the shine spots.

Demonstrate how to create the bubble drawing.

Have students trace various circles with white crayons and add the shine spots.
Have them add color with oil pastels.

Picasso

Information on Picasso:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNvBJAJw4s


http://www.mykidsart.com.au/Pablo_Picasso_Famous_Artists_My_Kids_Art.html


http://mrnussbaum.com/pablo-picasso-works-for-kids


K-1
Hand drawn Picasso with permanent marker and paint with Tempera cakes

2-3
Construction Paper Picasso
Outline with marker.

4-5
Clay Picasso

Cat in the Hat Portraits

Kindergarten will paint a Cat in the Hat portrait.  They will create a pattern frame for the portrait.

Listen to the Cat in the Hat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQW8AfBdea4

Weaving

4th and 5th graders chose either straw weaving or paper plate weaving.

3rd grade did wacky wavy paper weaving on large paper

2nd grade did paper weaving on small paper