Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today we enjoyed art and writing very much. We started exploring the different kinds of lines we could make. After our line exploration we thought about hills and mountains. We discussed which lines would be best to use when drawing hills and which lines would be best for drawing mountains. We decided on curved lines for the hills and jagged lines for the mountains. After sketching their hills and mountains students used crayons to color their pictures. Once the picture was colored students painted them with a "wash" using water color cakes. Here a few of my favorites.
Students were also introduced to writing "found poetry" today. Together we read an informational piece about mountains, highlighted our favorite words and phrases and put those words/phrases into a poem. I am looking forward to trying this writing strategy again during our folktale unit.
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