Still Lives: Day 2 

Do Now: Invent a new animal. It should have the head of one animal, the middle of another animal, and the third of another animal. Label the parts and name it!

Today the 3rd and 4th graders revisited the still life display. They had an opportunity to add more detail to their sketch, then color in the piece.

Laura Vaccaro Seeger: Day 2

Do Now: Invent a new animal. It should have the head of one animal, the middle of another animal, and the third of another animal. Label the parts and name it!

Today is the second day studying Laura Vaccaro Seeger. We started out class by reading her book "First the Egg". Similar to the other book we read, "First the Egg" is a cut out book with beautiful illustrations. Instead of opposites, Seeger writes about sequences - "first the egg, then the chicken", "first the tadpole, then the frog."

Students chose a sequence to illustrate, and began to work!

Still Lives 

Do Now: Imagine you were looking out of the window from an airplane. Draw what you see. 

As part of our "Genres of Art" unit, the 3rd and 4th grade is spending between 1 and 3 weeks on "portraits" "still lives" and "landscapes". Today, we started our "still lives" portion.

Students gathered in the common room, and were faced with this...

… a large scale still life.

Students were given a pencil, paper, a clipboard, and the remainder of art class to try to draw the still life as accurately as possible. They were allowed to focus on individual sections of the display (the jack-o-lantern, or the stump and the flower)or, if they were feeling ambitious, the entire still life.

They did an amazing job! They were focused and determined, and the results were beautiful. 

Laura Vaccaro Seeger 

Do Now: Imagine you were looking out of the window from an airplane. Draw what you see. 

For our next author/illustrator, we are studying Laura Vaccaro Seeger. 

We read "Black? White! Day? Night!", a book of opposites. Seeger uses bright color and a series of cut outs and flaps. We spent today beginning a 2day project of a Seeger-inspired flap book of opposites. 

After brainstorming our own list of opposites, students received a large piece of white paper, folded in half. They chose their own pair of opposites, and set to work illustrating the first part. The trick is to be able to visualize both pictures in order to plan where the cut out will be. 

Most students are not finished yet, but take a look at what we have so far!