Purple Room has been blooming and blossoming with all the wonderful art that the children are making and are excited to put out for the upcoming Art Sale. They have already decided what they want to sell. Be it a solo project or a collaborative one, they are hopeful that their sale proceeds will be enough to throw their own pizza party this Halloween. It is sure an accomplishment to throw a party with all this hard earned money ;) or should I say this hard earned donated money? ;)
They have been excited to make new stuff each week and say that it is for the art sale. With all their hard work and effort, and with your presence and participation, I bet this will turn out to be as successful an event as any other! Please feel free to come over and let your child give you a tour of all the art around the classroom, talking about each project and how was it made.
Just a couple of pics of their involvement... the rest is SECRET ;)
LETTER 'O'
Letter O started with a lot of fun where friends were excited to learn how to write the letter and moreover, they went to be so creative and enhanced the letter into a picture. For example, a child wrote O and added eyes and mouth making it a smiley face, another one wrote O and added lines around it making it a sun, whereas another child wrote an O and added eight lines making it look line an octopus! These are some amazingly creative O transformations!
S making a ladybug using the letter O's
L making a circle family picture frame...
L making the sun...
Wheel, ladybug, sun, flying bug, belly button, the earth, pumpkin, and fan were some other creative creations from the letter O. Its interesting to see their knowledge of a simple letter translating into an image/picture or I would say a masterpiece of their thoughts!
We did O collages using octapi...
and we did a math activity with Cheerios where we numbered the legs of the octopus randomly and then went ahead and added the number of Cheerios equal to the number on the leg. Later we enjoyed the Cheerios as snacks!
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
During circle time we got involved in talking about the similarities and differences of people around us and later did a 'me' project where we found a person cutout matching our skin color and then dressed it up. We added their work to the art wall as name tags.
We had all this beautiful printed paper and it came with tiny metal hangers which escalated this project into making more dresses and ultimately making an entire wardrobe. We used some magnetic doll dresses or the color person as stencils to draw and then cut our own dresses and pants and shirts.
Tracing and cutting...
Hanging the dresses on hangers...
The addition of the music wall outdoors is adding to our daily beats!
Working with shapes and figuring out to put then together on the template...
We read the book about Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and made our own elephant illustration...
Overall with some accomplished projects as well as continuing ones, we are ready to face our next week with continued dedication and surprises!
Sorry to have delayed this blog by a week,
Keep seeing you'll around,
Hugs,
Teacher Rashida.
