Lesson 4: 23 & 30/10/13-Van
Gogh’s Sunflowers
Today would be our first
experience with paints! I was both very excited & nervous!!I don’t have a home
class room, no basin & I have full classes of up to 28 kids….and only 45
mins. to do it all!!EEEK! But my teachers are a great help! (The homeroom
teacher stays with me) I don’t know what I would do without them!!!
We rearranged the desks to make
groups, I brought a bucket of water (my mobile sink), tin cans for each desk
and we got started!
Inspired by
the beautiful work my private classes came up with I decided to do this at
school too!
I showed them Van Gogh’s Sunflowers,
some of them had seen it before. We talked about the shapes & colours and I
showed them how to draw a simple vase. I told them they could decorate the vase
as they wished. We also saw how if we added a line at the base of the picture
we could have a table.
We used permanent markers for the
outlines, watercolors & blue tempera for the backgrounds.
Though we were stressed for time
(it could easily be a double lesson) It was a very successful event! And the results
are superb!!!!
The grade 3’s wrote tests that
morning so I had a small group of kids to work with! We were allowed to work in
the library .We painted tortoises and had the best time! The grade 3’s painted
their sunflowers the following week on the 30th
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