Lichtenstein and Fishy Business

This week, we continued on into our COLOR unit.



Our first, second, and third graders did a literacy-based art project using their color mixing experiments from last week to create a group collage. We first listened to The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. 






The Rainbow Fish is a story about a colorful fish who learns to share his sparkly, colorful scales with friends.
 Each class cut out their color mixing project "scales" and glued them to their class fish.

 

We then named the fish by taking three suggested names from the students and using the key sounds from each name and combining them together. We came up with some pretty funny names like "Miss. Fahootie", "Bulpy", and "Gleautty".  

"Girl in the Mirror", Roy Lichtenstein. 

Fourth and fifth grade started their color project by looking at the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein. He is inspired by comic strips and produced hard-edged, precise compositions of black, red, blue, and yellow hues. Our fourth and fifth graders will be working with the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and text to create their own comic squares. This week they sketched and used brainstorming strategies (who, what, where, text/what is being said?) They are looking forward to doing a painting project that is inspired by comics.

The word of the week was RESPONSIBILITY. So, we practiced responsible scissor handling. Below is a video!

1st though 3rd completed rainbow fish