Fruit Still-Life Collage

Second graders worked on learning a variety of concepts during this still-life project.

Learning Goals: The learner will...
- use primary colors to make secondary colors
- create a collage
- explain concepts such as, still-life, collage, and overlap
- use chalk to show highlights

The fist day of this project was spent creating special collage paper.  We reviewed ROY G. BIV and color order.  We also talked about primary and secondary colors.  Each table mixed to make their own secondary colors and then painted them on paper.

Next we cut and glued our fruit to create a collage still-life of a fruit basket. The final touches involved using chalk to add highlights which made our fruit look more 3D!

Fall Trees

This year 3rd grade created fall trees.  This was a great project we used to talk about space, blending, texture, highlights, shadows, form and shape!  I found this project on Pinterest which is a place I get many lesson ideas!

Learning goal:  I can show space.  We began by reviewing a number of ways to show space and then we focused on two ways: size and overlap.  We used perspective lines to show that as you look upwards the tree gets smaller.  We used overlapping to show how leaf clusters that are farther away hide behind clusters that are closer to the viewer.

After coloring the tree brown, we added highlights and shadows to make our tree trunks look more 3D and to show texture.

We practiced blending our warm colors to create a smooth transition between colors.

Finally, we painted our backgrounds blue! Everyone had great results!