1st graders in Ms. Erikson’s Class worked on their first watercolor paintings in art today. Keep up the good work!
Showing posts with label 2nd Grade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2nd Grade. Show all posts
September 20, 2011
1st and 2nd Graders…Back to Art
2nd graders reviewed art concepts and made an abstract painting using lines, shapes and color. Check out their hard work and smiling faces!
1st graders in Ms. Erikson’s Class worked on their first watercolor paintings in art today. Keep up the good work!
1st graders in Ms. Erikson’s Class worked on their first watercolor paintings in art today. Keep up the good work!
May 17, 2011
April 18, 2011
Learning about Egypt
Second grade students are beginning to learn about Egyptian Art. We have learned about mummification, heiroglyphs, and a special Egyptian hippo named “William.” William is the unofficial mascot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. He is a ceramic figure decorated with designs of the lotus plant. When I visited NYC last year, I brought home a stuffed version of Willam. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/FAQ/htm/willy.htmStudens are making their own hippos using model magic. They are going to be painted and decorated with black marker.
Check out this site to learn to write you name in hieroglyphs...
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=history/egypt/hieroglyphs.swf
April 6, 2011
Learning about Cave Art…2nd grade
2nd grade students learned about the Lascaux cave and it’s discovery in 1940. We took a virtual field trip to the cave by looking at this website…. http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php?lng=en#/fr/00.xml
Then we made our own cave drawings in our mock “cave.”
April 3, 2011
Picasso Portraits
My second graders just finished learning about Matisse, so Picasso worked perfectly as the next lesson. We started by reading/watching the book When Pigasso met Mootisse. I used the video on Storyline Online ( http://www.storylineonline.net/). The kids seemed to really enjoy this story.
Next, we looked at some Picasso paintings and began our silly faces. Once the faces were drawn, we used oil pastels, including fluorescent (a tip from a fellow teacher), a colored the whole picture. Lastly, the kids outlined their features with black oil pastel.
Great job 2nd graders!
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