Learning About Shapes!

This will be a short post but I just wanted to post a few pictures of our kinders working with shapes this week.  Although we have discussed and used shapes throughout the year, especially during play based learning and our art investigation... This week we officially started learning about 2D shapes.

Here are some pictures.

Students explored different ways to sort the shapes.

We used shaving cream to practice drawing shapes.

Students have been using pattern blocks to create insects.

They also practiced tracing and describing shapes.

Students also have been using loose parts to practice symmetry in both the clay and loose parts areas.

A Trip to the Art Museum!

On Wednesday of this past week, we took a trip to the Dayton Art Institute! We have been investigating art and artists for the past few months and will be having an art show in May- so this was a perfect trip for the students to get a chance to see what an art museum looks like as we begin to create our own.

Before we went to the museum, we read a great book called: Meet Me at the Art Museum. It explained a lot of what the students would be seeing.

The program we did was called Color, Shape and Line. It was a great connection to what we had been doing but was also age appropriate. Students engaged in hands-on activities at every station.

Here the students are discussing the colors in this painting and used color transparencies to make colors.

Here the students are discussing the shapes they see and then used shapes to make their own pictures.

At this station our docent is reading about lines. Students used pipe cleaners to make their own lines.

This artist used recycled materials to make her masterpiece. We looked for the materials and then the students made 3D art with blocks.

The students also participated in a workshop and made their own masterpiece to take home.

First they used primary colors to draw and mix.

Then they used shapes to make designs.

 Last they used pipe cleaners to make their own lines which were kept in a nifty pocket.

The students did an excellent job on the trip and enjoyed the activities. We will be moving on to study butterflies and caterpillars but we will still be working on our art museum. Our art show will take place on May 11th before our spring concert!