Kindergarten
Little Blue and Little Yellow
Lesson Theme: Friendship
Time: 1 class of 30 minutes
Lesson Overview: Students will read the book Little Blue, Little Yellow by Leo Leonni and discuss
friendships they might have. We will observe that friends can create something special when they work together- just like little blue and little yellow. Students will use fine motor skills to mix yellow and blue paint with a friend at their table and then use this new color to paint a picture of a friend.
The results were amazingly adorable and all of the students really supported one another in their painting abilities. Many painted themselves with their friends and added hearts to show how much they care about other classmates.
First Grade
Working Together
Lesson Theme: Working Together
Time: 3 classes of 45 minutes
Lesson Overview: students will read the book Swimmy by Leo Leonni and discuss the benefits of working together. They will observe how people (or fish!) can work together to achieve amazing results, they will create a mixed media artwork to show that materials can achieve that same amazing result. Each class we used a new media. The first day was watercolor and salt. Next we added paper collage to make some of our sea creature friends. And the very last day we continued our paper collage and added details with markers.
Fourth Grade
Be yourself!
Lesson Theme: identity
Time: 4 classes of 45 minutes
Lesson Overview: Students will discover that sometimes what everyone else does doesn’t fit them by reading the book Giraffes Can’t Dance. They will create a poster advertising themselves and what qualities make each of them unique. We will look at the artist Drew Struzan and some of his most popular movie posters for inspiration. After representing what makes them unique visually on their giraffes students wrote down on their frames what was most important in their identity and things that they love.
Fifth Grade
Painting with Kandinsky
Lesson Theme: we are influenced by sounds and music
Time: 2 classes of 45 minutes
Lesson Overview: students will observe how music and sound
influenced the work of Kandinsky. They will then make their own
paintings inspired by sounds and music they hear. Students will switch
what place they stand at every minute and a half so the whole class
can work on all of the tables. They will select a piece of the mural at
their table in the next class and write why they selected it. They will
mount it and take their piece home.