Hi! I work as a roaming Art Teacher for grades 1-3 in Ben
Tzvi in Afula once a week.
I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in
all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!
It’s definitely quite a challenge, but ever so
rewarding!!And I love it!!!!
Inspired by the wonderfully bright, vivid & larger
than life flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe I decided to do a project with the kids.
It worked well as it also tied in with spring.
I also took the opportunity of teaching them about the
colour-wheel & contrasting colours.
I introduced them to Georgia O'Keeffe and we looked at her
amazing paintings that I made posters of.
I told them to imagine themselves as being as small as a
beetle or fairy & feel the huge size of the flower. I instructed them to
try to reach at least 3 sides of the paper.
We worked on black paper with oil pastels (grade 3’s)
& blue paper (grade 2’s)
We also looked at how the pastels came out on black paper
& how if you added white it changed the outcome also gave out small printed
colour-wheels and encouraged them to use contrasting colours in their backgrounds.
They also loved discovering new colours by mixing 2 colours together.
I took 2 lessons for this project although some did
manage to finish in 1.
I was most concerned that the boys wouldn't want to draw
flowers but they loved it too!
The results were spectacular & we were all very happy
& excited !!!
I cant wait to hang them up!!!
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| I love this pic!They are all having so much fun! |
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| My one class of grade 3's with their amazing creations!!! |
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| Grade 3 at Ben Tzvi |
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| Grade 2's working on blue paper |
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| Grade 3's pastels on black paper |
