Grade 1

Students are creating sunflower puppets and 3 of my classes are creating Monet water lilies.
Our puppets are created from paper bags with construction paper. We learned about sunflowers! Our Monet pictures are created by coloring a water background, then making the water lilies out of colored tissue paper.

Students are starting to work on their fish windsocks! We learned more facts about fish and how to create scales using a special tracer.

WATCH THE FISH FACTS VIDEO BELOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Socaw_8LU

Students will be working on their caterpillar project. We are reviewing what a pattern is and what our primary/secondary colors are. Perfect project to start off the spring!!

First grade is beginning their Dr. Seuss project for Read Across America Day. We will be using watercolor crayons to create our fish in his bowl!





Students are starting to work on their warm hearts/cool hands project. We will review our primary and secondary colors first. Then they will be introduced to warm and cool colors. Students, do you remember the trick to remember those colors???

You can check out the video on brain pop called colors!

We are beginning the reindeer at my window project... Students learn about people of Mongolia, swimming reindeer, and some really cool facts!

Students are beginning their winter pictures this week. We learned about real ice hotels and also how houses and buildings are all made up of shapes!

This week the students are working on creating snails inspired by the movie Turbo! They use watercolor markers on color diffusing paper circles that get sprayed with water. Then we create our snail body using construction paper! We learned some cool facts about snails.

Students are starting their turtle projects! We learned about land and sea turtles. We even got to watch some sea turtles hatching on the beach. Students learned about the parts of turtles including the upper shell called the carapace and the belly shell called the plastron.

Students are currently working on a mouse project! They will be learning various facts about mice, hearing a singing mouse, and listening to the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie! Please check out the link below to see some of the fun things your child will be viewing during art this week!