1st+Grade

1st grade
===During the first grade year George Wolf students will practice and sharpen their basic art techniques and terms through creative and fun projects. Focus will be on the student to gain confidence and improve their artistic skills and thought processes through projects and discussions. ===

=== Lessons will include drawing simple shapes, painting, crayon resists, crafts, portraits, collage, mathematical integrations, and critical thinking activities. The students will also participate in classroom discussions and observations of famous/historic artworks. ===

===The goals of my first grade curriculum are to build on the student's primary fine motor skills and prepare them for more difficult projects and art techniques the follow year. I also place importance on the student's confidence as an artist. ===

First Grade Projects 2010

Fruit Bowls
===The first grade spend and entire class period holding, looking at, and drawing artificial fruit. This exercise helped the students strengthen their visuals perceptions of __3d forms __. The students and I also discussed how you can find more than one color on the skins of fruit. They then choose two or three colors for each piece of fruit they drew. After the students were finished drawing, they cut out their fruit and created a collage with the pieces. ===

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 Spring Murals First grade completed a fantastic set of __murals __for our hallways! We talked about murals being large works of art that go on a wall.

We focused on the theme of spring and make a long list of the things that remind us of spring. [rainbows, sunny skies, raindrops, flowers, trees, etc]

Each table, made up of four or five students, created a mural using __oil pastels ____.__ The students worked very hard and worked as a team. I was very proud of their ability to share ideas and drawing space. Enjoy!

 Stitching Cards <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">First grade has completed their first __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 146%;">fibers __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">project. The students learned how to use <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">__yarn__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">and a plastic needle to go up and down, in a stitching style, on a paper card. The results are so fun!

<span style="color: #17de6e; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Henri Rousseau's Jungles

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">First grade watched a slide show of some of __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 148%;">Henri Rousseau's __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> jungle paintings. They also listened to rain forest sounds. They told me that they saw lots of trees and leaves as well as fruit and flowers in Henri Rousseau's paintings. The first grade also discovered that sometimes Henri Rousseau likes to hide animals in his jungle by using __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">camouflage __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">.

After the students viewed and discussed the jungle paintings, they began their own version by creating a __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">collage __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> of a jungle. They cut and glued green and brown paper to create a jungle scene. During the second week of class the students recieved an animal printed paper and hid an animal inside their collage. The results and fun and colorful!

Listen to the rain forest sounds [[|here]]



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<span style="color: #ff009e; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Cherry Blossoms

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> With spring in full force, the first grade discovered cherry blossoms! They created the branches of their cherry blossoms by blowing brown paint with a straw across their papers. The branches stretched and turned in unexpected ways. Next, the students took pink tissue paper and crumbled it to create a delicate <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">cherry blossom <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">. The results certainly brightened our hallways!