Grade three just finished making their triaramas. I love doing these because they are so versatile and adaptable to any theme or lesson you teach.
For these, the students had to recreate their favorite room in their house. The instructions are quite simple. Give each student a square paper. They fold it in half and trace over [...]
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The school was giving away some potted plants and I was more than happy to give them a home in my classroom. I have big windows with plenty of light and plants are a great subject for drawing, observations etc. If any of your students finish their work early you can always send them off [...]
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Posted in 3D and Sculptures, Grade Five, Grade Four, Grade One, Grade Three, Grade Two, tagged cardboard, cardboard lesson plan, collage lesson plan, grade one art lesson, louise nevelson lesson, nevelson collage, oil pastel lesson, oil pastels, wood, wooden pieces collage on May 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I found a box full of different sized wooden pieces and let my grade ones go wild! They all picked out between 10-20 pieces and played around with their composition and planning.
They painted a piece of cardboard in either white or black to serve as the background for their shape collage and the students painted all of [...]
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