space and aliens...

2nd Grade Space Unit... I love it!

It means we get to do fun things with aliens. I usually do an oil pastel with warm and cool colors and the foreground, middle ground and background. BUT... I just did a pastel project with the kiddos, I decided a large scale painting was in order.

First, we created aliens symmetrical ones... from Deep Space Sparkle...

Next, the students had to each pick a different plant. They had to apply the knowledge about the plants to create the surface of the planet they chose. Depending on the planet it had to be cool or warm colors. We talked all about foreground, middle ground and background. The students need to include all three in there painting.

For their painting, I wanted them to be big. But I do not have large paper, so I opened up two brown paper bags and taped them together. It gave them a huge canvas to paint on.After the kids finished painted, they glued their alien onto the backgrounds.

They had a good time with this project and they turned out super fun!

Aliens and Planets...

These are out of this world... get it?! Hahahaha

windows down...

weather has arrived... this lovely song is the epitome of music that needs to be play in a car with the windows down. Try it... you will not be disappointed!



Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Song: Thunder Road
Album: Live

weather: wind

The last art and weather project was WIND! The students created kites! (And they actually worked!!!) These were super fun and the kids had a ball when it came time to fly them outside!

Shape was a reoccurring theme for this project too:) An added bonus!

To start this took a bit of prep on my part....
I hot glued two skewers in a cross. I also broke down paper bag from a grocery store and I cut them into pieces that were slightly bigger then the skewer crosses.

The next few steps were for the kids to do. They first had to create the diamond shape on the paper bag using the cross. Some of the kids had a really hard time holding the cross still while drawing the lines. I think it is good though to challenge them like this sometimes.

Next, they got to decorate the kite using any shapes. I allowed the to color with markers. Then they cut out their diamond and used liquid glue to attach the cross and diamond together. At this point they need to dry over night.

Back to the good ol' teacher... I attached the kite string to the back of all the kites so they would be ready for the next class. Next, I let the kids punch holes so we could add decorative strings... they choose the string and punched the holes, I tied them on to the kite.

Luckily it was a bit windy the day we finished:)

weather: rainbows

Here is the next stop in our tour - o - weather for first grade... Are you ready to get these kids super pumped, excited, electrified, psyched??? Well play this videoooooooo...







The kids really enjoyed this music video and it got them to start to understand the basics of rainbows... For this project, the kids made their own Roy G Biv man and rainbow scene.

This project was the odd man in my series of projects that interact with the weather. Cute and fun non the less!

 

 

Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Roy G Biv