Kindergarten learned their primary colors by creating some adorable artwork inspired by Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish! They are so whimsical just like one of my favorite authors drawings. I certainly can use some more Dr. Seuss in my classroom.
It's Geometric vs. Organic Shapes here in 1st grade! Well discovering these different categories of shapes we learned about two different artists. Piet Mondrian and Henri Matisse. We discovered that Mondrian loved using the Primary colors: Red, Blue and Yellow, while Matisse used both Primary and Secondary colors! Mondrian used geometric shapes while Matisse used organic! However, both loved listening to jazz music while creating their artwork. In fact, Mondrian named one of his paintings Broadway Boogie Woogie! So of course we had to listen to some boogie woogie and jazz while creating ours!
This year Preschool and Pre-K is going through the ABC's of Art! A was for Art (of course) B was for Brush (pictures soon) and C is for Color! We sorted out our colors from lots of little scraps and learned to match tints and shades as well as use a glue bottle! I was so proud of my Preschoolers who remembered to use "little baby ladybug" dots of glue. When finished I strung them up to make a wonderful, colorful garland!
