Hello to all my Grade PREP students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 3 of Term 3 2020 and all my Prep students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of self portraits !
Last week I asked you to draw a self portrait after watching a video.
I hope you kept last week’s self portrait somewhere nice and safe. You will need to submit last week’s self portrait as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.
Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task will be forwarded to you soon.
We are going to be drawing a new self portrait soon so you will need some paper,
some pencils,
or crayons,
or textas.
Some people call textas, markers.
And I would really like it if you had a small mirror so you can look at yourself.
So I am going to give you a little bit of time to organise yourself.
I will just sit here on my blog and wait for you to collect some pencils and textas, some paper and, hopefully, a mirror.
If you don’t have a small mirror you can use to look at yourself perhaps you can move yourself to draw on the floor somewhere in your house, maybe in the bathroom, where there is a big mirror,
so you can use the big mirror to look at yourself.
So I will just wait until you are ready……..
Oh, you are ready already! That was so fast! Well done!
So while you were getting ready to draw I found a beautiful story to share with you so let’s watch the video.
If you need to stop the video at anytime you can just press the pause button and then come back to the story.
PART 2 READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET
Oh, that was a lovely story called “The Colour of Us” written and illustrated by Karen Katz.
I thought the illustrations were just gorgeous. Karen Katz is a very clever author and artist. She wrote the story about her daughter Lena and a conversation they had one day when they went out for a walk.
Now I would like you to get your small or big mirror
and have a very good look at your face!
Today you are again going to draw a SELF PORTRAIT but it will be a bit different this time.
Today you are going to draw a MONOCHROMATIC
SELF PORTRAIT.
Yes, it’s a very big word – monochromatic.
I want you to say that long word after me – monochromatic.
Let’s try it again – monochromatic.
Now I want you to say after me – monochromaticself portrait.
Well done!
If we break the word up the mono part means one and the chromatic part means colour. So now you are going to watch a video made by a very clever art teacher called Cassie Stephens.
She is going to show you some self portraits painted by artists and then show you how to draw a monochromatic self portrait.
In the video she talks to her students about using a very small piece of paper. You can use whatever size paper you have.
In the video she uses a thin black texta to start her drawing. You can use one if you like but you could also use a black pencil.
Let’s watch the video.
PART 3 READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET.
In the video Cassie decides to do her monochromatic self portrait using green. These are monochromatic self portraits that were done by some of Cassie’s students.
You don’t have to choose green but whatever colour you choose you need to have several lights and darks of that colour.
I hope you have fun drawing your monochromatic self portrait.
You don’t have to submit your drawing this week. Again, I would like you to keep your drawing nice and safe. You will then submit this week’s monochromatic self portrait as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.
Hello to all my Grade 1 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 2 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 1 students are at home!
This is not the way I usually work with Grade 1 students to teach them about Visual Arts but we will be doing this for a few weeks until it is safe to attend school again.
Until then, we will be learning like this – online – using my blog!
You will remember me from our time in the art room together last year.
Yes, it’s me – Mrs Menhennet! Most Cambridge Primary School students that know me, recognise me by my multicoloured hair!!!
Cambridge Primary School students always ask me, “Mrs Menhennet, how come you have all those colours in your hair?”
And I always tell them, “I don’t know. It just grew like that!”
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of colour !
To introduce the order of the colours of the rainbow.
To remind students of the elements needed for a rainbow to occur in the sky.
To introduce the audio function on my blog post.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
I watch and listen to the video song about Roy G Biv.
I can create a rainbow scene artwork with the colours of the rainbow in order.
I can create a rainbow scene artwork including the elements needed for a rainbow to occur.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
Let’s get started!
We are going to be drawing a rainbow soon so you will need some paper,
some pencils,
or crayons,
or textas.
Some people call textas, markers.
I am going to give you a little bit of time to organise yourself.
I will just sit here on my blog and wait for you to collect some pencils and textas or crayons and some paper.
The size of the paper or what sort of paper it is doesn’t really matter.
So I will just wait until you are ready……..
Oh, you are ready already! That was so fast! Well done!
So while you were getting ready to draw I found a fantastic song to share with you so let’s watch the video.
If you need to stop the video at anytime you can just press the pause button
and then come back to the story.
Oh, okay, okay, you already knew that! I’m sorry I forgot how clever Cambridge Primary School Grade 1 students are!
I will not be surprised if you end up watching that song over and over again.
So what was that little elf’s name?
Yes, that’s right! His name is Roy G Biv.
Roy G Biv.
That’s a very unusual name.
Why do you think he is called Roy G Biv?
Oh, you are too clever.
His name is Roy G Biv because the letters of his name are the colours of the rainbow, in order.
R is for red.
O is for orange.
Y is for yellow.
G is for green.
B is for blue.
I is for indigo.
And V is for violet.
So, if you remember the name Roy G Biv you will remember the order of the colours of the rainbow.
Now, as much as I like the video we just watched and I think the song is fantastic, I don’t like the way they show the colour indigo.
On the video indigo looks like a weird sort of pinky purple when indigo is actually a dark, dark, dark purply blue.
I always describe indigo as being the darkest purply blue of the sky in the evening, just before the sky turns black.
It is a much, much darker blue than the navy blue of our school uniforms.
So now you know all about the order of the colours of the rainbow I want you to draw a fantastic picture of a rainbow but
I don’t just want a picture of a rainbow. This is grade 1 so I want you using your brain and think really hard!
What do we need for a rainbow to appear in the sky? Do you know?
Yes, we need rain!
What else do we need?
Yes, we need the sun!
And there is something else we need. What could it be?
We have the sun and the rain but there is something else we need and it’s a little bit tricky!
Have a think!
Yes, you are too clever. We need clouds as well.
If there weren’t any clouds in the sky it wouldn’t be raining so we need clouds in the sky too.
Okay, so when you do your rainbow drawing I expect to see rain, the sun and clouds or there wouldn’t be a rainbow in your drawing. Does that make sense?
And when we are talking about what we need for a rainbow to appear in the sky we are actually doing Science while we are doing Visual Arts! Wow!
So I want to HEAR you say that you know we are doing Science during Visual Arts. So say it after me. “That’s Science in Visual Arts!”
Wait a minute! That was a bit too quiet. Say it after me, “That’s Science in Visual Arts!”
Hmmm, that was still too quiet. You are in your house and I am in my house so you are going to have to shout it for me to hear you so shout it after me, “That’s Science in Visual Arts!!!”
Wow! That was so loud my ears just fell off!
Right I’ve just stuck my ears back on so we can continue.
Before we start drawing I want you to think about the rainbow being shaped like a hump or an arch.
Sometimes, my students, when drawing a rainbow, start with a teeny tiny arch and they find they can’t fit all the colours into their rainbow as it is just too squishy.
Also a teeny, tiny rainbow might just look way too small on your paper so I don’t want you to draw a teeny tiny rainbow.
I want you to draw a great BIG, HUGE, ENORMOUS rainbow on your paper!
So, let’s practice using your magic finger.
Hold up your magic finger!
Wave it around in the air!
Make sure it is switched on!
Let’s test it out. Draw a small circle in the air.
Draw a large square in the air.
Write your name in the air.
Write your name 3 times really fast in the air!
Oh, you are faster than me as my name is soooooo looooong!
Now put your magic finger in the air and draw an arch.
Okay, so now we know it is working use your magic finger to draw a very small arch on your paper. Your magic finger is fantastic to practice drawing with as it draws invisibly and you never have to rub it out!
Now draw an arch a little bit bigger with your magic finger on your paper.
Now draw a really big arch on your paper with your magic finger.
By practising that arch shape with your magic finger I hope you will end up drawing a nice large rainbow on your paper.
So your drawing needs to include a large rainbow, the sun, rain and clouds. You can even include a little Roy G Biv elf if you want!
But this is grade 1 so that is not all.
I don’t want to see any white paper gaps in your drawing.
Do you remember last year when we were painting and I told you I didn’t want any white paper gaps in your painting? Well this is just like that.
If you draw a really large rainbow, with all it’s colours in order.
And you draw the sun and lots of clouds and rain and Roy G Biv, there shouldn’t be much space left anyway.
But if there is white space left on your paper I want you to think about what you can draw to fill the space so your drawing is complete.
So, let’s make a list of what you need to draw –
a really big rainbow with all the colours in order
Some people call textas, markers.
