This was my first time to teach tessellations. Tessellations are single tiles repeated with no space in between. MC Escher used tessellations in his artwork, so we started out by looking at his work. Then we made our tiles. This part was a little tricky, but I like the method we used because it made […]
The older class completed their symmetrical insects this week. I missed getting pictures of several of them. : ( They all turned out great. Most kids in this age group really love details. This project gave them lots of opportunity to draw details! They came up with some very good looking specimens.
This week we finished drawing and began to color our forest animals. We talked about layering colors and varying pressure to achieve rich colors with colored pencils. These are really turning out great! I can wait to see our winter collage come together next week. For those that finished early, we learned how to cut […]
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