Ms. Liz Godfrey

We have been working on self-portraits in kindergarten. Students have been learning about background and foreground and how to create a scene for their self-image. They enjoyed imagining where they wanted to “be” in their picture. They shared their ideas with their classmates and each student selected a unique place that they wanted to create. They used gross motor skills cutting paper shapes for a paper collage background. They then practiced drawing their self-portraits from observation using mirrors. We drew large portraits and small portraits and cut them out and discovered the size of the portrait is important. Students selected on drawing and pasted it onto the background and used mixed media to draw into the final art work. Creative and wonderful works of art were made!

We have been exploring folding, cutting, rolling, crumpling, ripping, and twisting paper.  Kinder artists planned in sketchbooks and each student has been working on a final sculpture. We added fabric, rubber bands and yarn to accent our works of art.

Kindergarten artists have been exploring lines and combinations of lines.  We have found lines in nature, lines in objects, lines in art and are always on the lookout for lines!  Students used ipads, yarn, paint, markers, tape and a wide variety of tools to express their knowledge of lines. 

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Our Kindergarten classes have explored “taking a dot for a walk” to make organic shapes.  We told stories about where our dot was going and turned the lines into shapes.  We ran with this idea of combining storytelling and shape to inspire our collaborative class work.  Each class wrote and illustrated 4-5 books.  Look for them in your child’s classroom!  They will be there by next week!

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