The Bottom of the Big Blue Sea

Just finished a swimmingly, sweet project with my little 1st graders that was inspired by a song and the Blue-Green Chromis schooling fish in our aquarium

Day 1: Students started with a gradiated sea. I assigned each class a different color. We started with white paint and added a drop of our paint color, till we reached the true tone.

Day 2: We added fish, using different cool colors.  I wanted the students to practice perspective, changing the size of the fish as they got farther away. 

Day 3: We finished up with some overlapping silver fish and bubbles!

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be a stone

I wanna sink to the bottom of the ocean

And lie there with you til I'm gone

At the bottom of the big blue sea

Just you and me." -Bob Schneider

Happy Friday!

YAM 2016: Painted Deserts and Missions

Every year my school districts hosts an Art Show. We as teachers have the very hard task of choosing a dozen plus pieces to represent our whole campus, and this year, my 3rd graders earned that honor!

With one week left before the shows closes, I thought I would share a few pics, and give ya'll a closer look at the painted desert project that accompanied their clay missions.

I took 12 paintings, and six 3D pieces.

The day of set up was a bit crazy, since I had my two year old with me!

Before the pieces moved over to the show, they had been transforming our school's walkways into a mini Big Bend.

The 3rd graders worked on these while we waited for their clay missions to dry and be fired.

The final results were equally as impressive as their clay sculpture!