Pinch Pot Pals in Progress!

Pottery is an ancient art form.  People around the world use pottery every day for eating and drinking.  Even though we might each like to eat different kinds of food, all creatures need food to live.  Students each created a "pinch pot pal" with a different creature’s face.  First grade artists used ceramic techniques including pinching a pot, forming pieces of clay and attaching the pieces with scoring and slip.  We will fire our pottery in a kiln and then glaze it in a few weeks!  

First Grade "Special Me - Slippers with Symmetry!"

Are you …

Sweet like a kitten? 

Friendly like a puppy? 

Fast as a cheetah? 

Tough as a shark? 

Wild as a monkey?

In this lesson, first grade artists each identified a quality they have that makes them special.  They thought of animals that share that same quality.  They made slippers with the faces of the animals.  As inspiration, we read the book Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood.  This lesson affirmed that each of us is a special person with different qualities and strengths.  We learned about each other through the art project and our class discussions. 

Students were challenged to make each slipper have symmetry.  Symmetry and balance are concepts that they will revisit in their future math lessons and art lessons.