FirstGrade

= Textured Trees (November & December)   = The students learned all about texture and created trees with limbs. The students gathered real leaves fromthe park that wer various fall colors to crunch up and make the bark texture for the trees they drew. The trees were made by using Y's and V's to create the limbs like on a real tree. Check out the pictures on the First grade gallery. =  Vincent Van Gogh ( January & February)     The students are studing the life and art of vincent van gogh. They are learning about impressionism and the artistic style that Vincent Van Gogh used in creating his paintings. The Students viewed a powerpoint that introduced Van Gogh. You may view this powerpoint in the section marked pwerpoints to the right. This project will be a mixed media project using many materials to recreate the students version of Van Gogh's Sunflower series of paintings. Watch the gallery for pictures of your students work in progress. = = Andy Warhol (January & February)    First grade students are also being introduced to Pop Art and arist Andy Warhol. The students are learning about self portraits and the concept of Pop Art. They will be using digital cameras and our mobile laptop unit to create their self protraits in the style of Andy Warhol. This pictures will be displayed in the Art Gallery at school and in the first grade gallery on the wiki. =.

