Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Cats and Castles

The students finished their Klee inspired cats today, adding background color and finishing touches. There were lots of messy hands again today!


We looked at Klee's Castle and Sun painting, especially his color pallet and use of strong geometric shapes, and then the students designed their own castles.

Next week the students will be using a surprise process to add color to their drawings. Stay tuned for the final results!

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics

We must have gone through at least 30 glue sticks today as the students continued to work on their mosaics.




Most of the younger students were able to complete theirs today, while the older kids are still gluing, gluing, gluing.


The first/second grade class and the third/fourth graders also learned a wee bit about Pythagoras and geometry. The students who finished their mosaics used stencils and pattern blocks to make shape pictures.



Next week will be our last class before the one week break. We'll be wrapping up projects from these first few weeks, but continuing with ancient Greece after the break. Greek theater masks are coming up, and I am in need of copious amounts of newspaper for paper mache masks. If you get the paper, please send old newspapers to class with your child. I'm still collecting paper towel and toilet paper rolls for a future unit on Paul Klee, so keep sending those in, too! Thanks so much!