First grade Art

In this lesson we discussed the artist Vincent Van Gogh by talking about his life and looking at his art work. One of the pieces of art we focused on was Starry Night, we talked about the texture of the paint and how to used different brush strokes to create the same affect as Vincent Van Gogh.
 
 

In this lesson we discussed Prehistoric art and the lives of people who lived many years ago before there were shopping centers, cars,and planes. Cave people who lived off the land and who may have dwelled in caves. We discussed the Lascaux Caves in France, we looked at cave paintings. The students used brown and black paint and used their hands and fingers to paint much like the artists who painted on the cave walls so many years ago.
 

In this lesson we talked about Ancient Egypt culture and the Egyptian writing. Ancient Egyptian writing used over 2,000 hieroglyphic characters. Each hieroglyph represented a common object. Hieroglyphs could represent the sound of the object, or they could represent an idea associated with the object. Hieroglyphs were written in rows or columns without spaces between words.