School Year 2013-2014
Fall leaves from Observation: Warm and Cool Colors
All Second Grade students learned about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and about warm and cool colors. They learned how to draw by observing real leaves and drew the contour of the leaves, as well as their veins. They painted their leaves with warm colors like red, orange, and yellow, and painted the background with cool colors like blue, purple, and green. Materials: pencils, black sharpies, watercolors.
All Second Grade students learned about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and about warm and cool colors. They learned how to draw by observing real leaves and drew the contour of the leaves, as well as their veins. They painted their leaves with warm colors like red, orange, and yellow, and painted the background with cool colors like blue, purple, and green. Materials: pencils, black sharpies, watercolors.
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"Tasting the First Snow" Self-Portrait
Second Grade students learned about portraits, collages, patterns and symmetry, and created their own self-portrait out of construction paper, crayons, oil pastels, and yarn.
Second Grade students learned about portraits, collages, patterns and symmetry, and created their own self-portrait out of construction paper, crayons, oil pastels, and yarn.
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Trees in Perspective
Second Grade students learned about Perspective and created their own landscape artwork with trees in perspective. Materials: pencils, oil pastels, water colors, tempera paint, wooden sticks.
Second Grade students learned about Perspective and created their own landscape artwork with trees in perspective. Materials: pencils, oil pastels, water colors, tempera paint, wooden sticks.
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Dragon / Chinese New Year or Lunar Year
Second Grade students learned about China, the Chinese New Year or Lunar Year and the Chinese Dragon. They created their own Dragon out of pencils, sharpies, and colored pencils. Connections to Social Studies.
Second Grade students learned about China, the Chinese New Year or Lunar Year and the Chinese Dragon. They created their own Dragon out of pencils, sharpies, and colored pencils. Connections to Social Studies.
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Pizza and Hamburger Collage
Second grade students learned about collages and they created their own food collages for our school's fundraiser. They used drawing paper, construction paper, decorative paper, scissors, white glue, and glue sticks.
Second grade students learned about collages and they created their own food collages for our school's fundraiser. They used drawing paper, construction paper, decorative paper, scissors, white glue, and glue sticks.
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