Eric Carle Paintings Part One-Mrs. Sickbert

The Kindergarteners are learning the job of a book illustrator. These students are have already looked at the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" illustrated by Eric Carle. Today, I read them a collection of poems illustrated by Eric Carle as well. We talked about the job of an author and the job of an illustrator. I told them that Eric Carle illustrates books and sometimes writes them. Then I told them that he creates pictures by painting pieces of paper, letting them dry and then cutting out the shapes he needs. Today, we began by painting three pieces of paper, red, yellow, and blue. We are going to make a picture of a mouse the way Mr. Carle would do it.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Last week the Kindergarteners learned how to draw lines and turn those lines into squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles. This week I read the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" to them. After we finished the book I showed them how to turn the shapes they learned last week in a picture of a bear. The Kindergarteners then colored in their drawings. They turned out great! They also learned how to put a texture under their paper to give their bears interesting patterns in the fur.

Welcome Back!

Summer break has ended and students are back at school. A new year of art classes have begun as well. This year all classes have started by decorating their art folder with a multi-media self-portrait.