Year in Review: First and Second Grade

Here is an overview of the work that first and second grade artists have completed this year.  Use the links on the sidebar of the blog to see more examples of each project.  

Garden Watercolor Paintings

Van Gogh Sunflower Collages

"Perfect Square" by Michael Hall

Gingerbread House Collages

Robots! 

Vermont Folk Artist Warren Kimble

Chinese Year of the Dragon Masks 

Paul Klee "Castle and Sun" Shape Paintings

Watercolor Painting with Analogous Colors for Valentine's Day

Working with Leslie for the Empty Bowls Service Learning Project

Pinch Pots at the Empty Bowls Dinner

Desert Sunset Silhouette Paintings inspired by "Cactus Hotel"

Garden Flags

Kindergartners do Kandinsky

Kindergartners looked at "Circles in Concentric Squares." 

They used oil pastels and liquid watercolors to make their own circle drawings. 

A one day vacation with Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000) was an Austrian artist(who later took on New Zealand citizenship).  Say that ten times fast! 


Hundertwasser's original and unruly artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades,postage stamps, flags, and clothing (among other areas). The common themes in his work utilised bright colours, organic forms, a reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong individualism, rejecting straight lines.


Although Hundertwasser first achieved notoriety for his boldly-coloured paintings, he is more widely known for his individual architectural designs. These designs use irregular forms, and incorporate natural features of the landscape. TheHundertwasserhaus apartment block in Vienna has undulating floors ("an uneven floor is a melody to the feet"), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows.


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Here are some of my favorite paintings by Hundertwasser:

Third and fourth grade artists looked at many examples of Hundertwasser's work.  His artwork often depicts specific buildings and places from around the world. Students were asked to think about where they would like to go if they could take a one day vacation anywhere in the world.  Then they drew their destinations in the style of the artist. We used a mixture of black paint and white glue to outline the pictures, then painted then with liquid watercolor paints.  

Pre-K larger than life Ice Cream Cones

Just in time for summer... I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!  

Pre-schoolers were challenged to make ice cream cones as tall or taller than themselves.  

To get ourselves excited about this tasty treat, we listed to this funny song about ice cream, words by Jack Prelutsky, sung by Natalie Merchant.

Taller than Mrs. A-K!

Adding sprinkles made from colored rice