Showing posts with label Monet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monet. Show all posts

Weekly Kid's Co-Op Week Of March 16 2012

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Weekly Kid’s Co-Op

This is our last week of school before spring break and we will get to go on a little family getaway to an indoor water park.  Tomorrow I am excited that we will be spending an entire day as a family at our local High School’s Science Circus! 




I am thrilled to be participating in the Weekly Kid’s co-op and I wanted to invite all of you to participate as well.  There is a link up in the post below.  Take a few moments to check out all of the wonderful and creative ideas.  Here are a few of my favorite posts from last week!



Weekly Kid's Co-op Week of 3.16.12 March Monet


Weekly Kid’s Co-Op March Monet and other art


Please add your link at the bottom of this post!  For Art this month our special Artist was Monet.  We are studying pond life and I felt it would be appropriate to add fine art into that theme.  Water Lilies by Claude Monet is my favorite piece of fine art!  We worked with watercolor pencils and watercolor paper. 


First we studied a few of Monet’s prints and discussed what a landscape painting was.  The kids drew the water and the edge of the pond, and then they added the water lilies along with other details.  They finished by painting over it with water to blend in the colors.  The paintings turned out FABULOUS!! 


We also made lily pads by color mixing water colors on large coffee filters.  This was an extension to our color mixing work at the science table!  We added cupcake liners and tissue paper flowers


Here are a few of our frog art projects from this month.  We made cupcake liner eyes, paper plate mouths and self stick foam for the “sticky tongue”.



This month we also have been learning about ROY G BIV.  We read a story about a Leprechaun named ROY G BIV and he was trying to build a rainbow.  To extend this lesson I put out a ton of collage materials and instructed the kids to draw a rainbow and put the colors in order using any collage material they chose.  Here are some of their collages.  The colors, creativity and texture on these collages make my heart sing!



Rachel

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