Square 1 Art * Kindergarten: Sun Faces

Students did an Art Hunt on the second day to art class. Mrs. R demonstrated how to draw a few lines and shapes and then each student had a piece of paper… like this one below

And they searched around the art room while listening to some music looking for the lines and shapes.

On the their next day of art, Kindergarten watched an animated video of Eric Carle’s book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Students looked for lines and shaped while watching the video story.

The Project Procedure:
Students drew Sun Faces with sharpie marker using line and shape after a short demonstration.
Students were introduced to pattern which they are also learning about in math class. Students used an A-B-C-A-B-C pattern using warm colors to color the rays of the sun.
Students painted the center of the sun, the face, yellow and used color colors on the background. Learning about warm and cool colors
4-5 Classes


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The beginning of September

I began taking over teaching a few classes a day and then after a few days was teaching all 6 classes of the day. At the beginning Mrs. R would help to get the students attention after they entered the room and informed the students I would be teaching them for today but that we were both still available for questions/resources. The first days of teaching classes went really well. I was talking a lot so I drank A LOT of water. I never realized how dry my mouth could be after teaching all day! Now that it is the end of September I have adjusted to speaking all day and transitioning between grade levels.

Being in the art room I see all 6 grade levels once every day and see the students on a 6 day rotation. This means that without any interruptions to our schedule… for example assemblies, picture day, testing… We teach each grade level there lessons for 6 days and on the 7th day we move on to day number two of the lesson or if it was a one day lesson we begin another new lesson. This has been helpful to me as a beginning teacher because it gives me the opportunity to adjust and learn from the way I present a lesson to one group and change or improve it for the next day.

As I took over teaching the students had already begun their first projects for the school year introduced to them by Mrs. R. Their first projects are for their ‘Square 1’ art. ‘Square 1’ is a company located in Georgia, the students make the artwork on 8 ½ by 8 ½ square sheets of paper and we ship them off. The company then takes a digital picture of each students artwork, sends the artwork and a sheet of individualized stickers with the students artwork. There is also a brochure that is sent home so other items can be purchased that have the students’ original artwork.
Mugs, Aprons, Ceramic Tile, Shirt, Water bottles, Etc

The money made from ‘Square 1” goes directly to Art for supplies, materials, resources, etc!!

Sqaure 1's website: http://www.square1art.com/