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| By Owen (Year2) |
Lesson Background:
2BD has been learning about how life has changed in the past 100 years, particularly focussing on our local area.
Lesson Materials:
Photos and artworks showing the local landscape 100 years ago
Art paper
Charcoal (I like to use the cheap synthetic charcoal sticks with young students, as they don't break as easily as more expensive willow)
Lesson Steps:
1. We broke the artwork we were using as inspiration up into segments- drawing in first the horizon line, then the largest features first, such as mountains and the large gumtree in the foreground.
2. We then added smaller details.
3. We talked about shadow and light, and talked about where (& why) they would be positioned in the picture. We also talked a lot about not drawing things the way we THINK they look, but actually looking at things in detail. Not drawing "broccoli trees" got talked about a lot! ;)
Year 2 Student Artworks:
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| 2BD's CONNECT display |
Lesson Background:
Each year, our school has a focus word for the year. This year, our word is "CONNECT" and we were set with the task to create a "CONNECT" display in our classrooms. This is ours! We have been talking a lot about having a growth mindset, and how we need to make connections in our learning and with each other, to make sure the "branches" in our brains grow thick and strong, instead of withering away and dying.
Lesson Materials:
6 sheets of light brown cardboard
Gold acrylic paint for the background
Black acrylic paint for the tree
Other acrylic paint colours to decorate
Brushes
Tape
Silver glitter glue
PVA glue
Lesson Steps:
1. Stick the cardboard sheets together with the tape.
2. Paint them with a thick layer of gold paint.
3. Paint a swirly tree shape on top.
4. On paper, each student draws, then paints a bird and a jewel shape. We used step-by-step drawing cards off the Internet to help. Once dry, coat in a layer of silver glitter glue and PVA.
5. Stick the jewels and birds onto the tree with PVA glue, when the tree is dry.
6. Paint coloured circle shapes along all the tree branches and trunk, then decorate them with silver and white dots both inside and around them.
