Kandinsky's Lines

As the Kindergartens have been studying line, we are finally getting to paint! They are so excited! They were also introduced to the famous artist Kandinsky.

 

First we had a directed lesson where students were told which line and what direction to paint their line. The purpose of this was to learn about different types of lines but also to see how different everyone's composition would still be  even given the same directions.

 

Here are some final results...

Nutcracker

Since it is Nutcracker season, the music teacher and I decided to put together a unit on ballet and storytelling. Here are the beginnings of our nutcracker drawings in class.
To make the nutcracker figure, student had to trace a 4"x6" rectangle for the body, and then 1"x4" rectangle for the arms and legs and then 2" square for the head and then again for the hat.
After the tracing they then had visuals of different nutcrackers they could copy or design their own. Marker was the best media for this because of its easy for coloring and its brightness.