Kinder Self Portraits

I just love kindergarten self portraits in the morning! Just too cute... We went through all the parts of the face together and colored in with oil pastel

 

Bulletin Boards

Here are a few bulletin boards I have up for the month of January! Since starting my second year, I have been trying to get better at changing them out more often-I am aiming for every month.

 

Above is a Pointillism Winter Landscape lesson I did with my third graders. We talked about the artist Seurat, and I introduced foreground, midground, and background. We used q-tips to make the "points." For some reason, I felt last year's group was a little more patient with the dots. Some of my kiddos got a little frustrated when their paper wasn't filling up as quickly opposed to just painting with a brush. Might just try painting next year...?

 

I  thought these kindergarten "Wild Things" where just too adorable to not hang up! We talked about texture, and used textured animal print paper - they loved this! They then added a horizon line, wild thing appendages, and a background. Too cute.

 

This is a new lesson I tried on symmetrical shapes with my 4th graders. I read sections of "Snowflake Bentley" (great book with stunning illustrations on the photographer Wilson Bentley, first to capture a snowflake), and then we talked about what exactly a symmetrical shape is. They started with a base, larger snowflake, and added more and more smaller ones to make it even more symmetrical. Some really got into this and made their own at home!