Apple Prints

During our apple week we made apple prints. It was a lot of fun but really messy! Then they had to write what kind of apple they liked to go with their painting.

It's Fall!

It's finally fall! I love fall and the wonderful colors that it brings. These are just some of the fall art work that we did this year. I had my morning class do their differently than my afternoon class and I rally like the way both of them turned out. My morning class made trees with their hands while my afternoon class just did dot painting to make their trees. I actually liked the dot painting better than the hand trees...you can decide which one you liked better!

Plant Unit and Art

We had so much fun doing this unit! Part of our goals was to discuss what a plant is and then making different types of plants. We also tried to do Acrostic Tree Poems which were really difficult for the kids but they did a great job!

Teaching About Warm and Cold Colors

My PTA art mom taught this lesson for me. She started by showing the kids different paintings where warm and cold colors were used. Then she read some children's books that discuss warm and cold colors or just had pictures that showed the colors. Then she gave them each a box of oil pastels and told them that blue, green, and purple were their cold colors; red, yellow, and orange were the warm colors. They then had to create a picture where one part used warm colors and the other used cold colors. It was a great lesson and the kids had an awesome time! I was really impressed by their pictures.