Characters on Parade
After exploring different images and characters in the parades depicted in The Triumphs, children will make masks and have a parade of their own!
After exploring different images and characters in the parades depicted in The Triumphs, children will make masks and have a parade of their own!
Students will explore what it might have felt like for the people in The Radcliffe Family to pose for their sittings. They will then have fun posing stuffed animals and dolls for their own portrait compositions.
After singing fun songs about fish, students will explore William Merritt Chase’s painting Still Life with Fish, noting the shiny quality of the scales and the pot. They will also listen to the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and make a fish artwork using collaged metallic paper.
In this lesson, students will learn that classroom rules and values are set in place to create a calm and peaceful environment. After exploring how the hand gestures in the Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva communicate a message, they will design their own hand gestures that remind students of the classroom rules.
Close observation helps students see tiny details in the Grip Enhancers (Menuki) with Rats. They will use these details to engage in different visual arts and movement activities. A video about mochi (one of the objects on the grip enhancers) and activities in Japan around making mochi rounds out the lesson.
This lesson connects to Jeffrey Gibson's Freedom with the idea that we make choices about what we carry and why. Young learners will explore their own identity and learn about others through a guessing game, sorting game, and close observation of art.
Young learners will explore the layers of geometric shapes in Jeffrey Gibson's Freedom, and explore a variety of types of materials to make a multi-layered art work of their own.
Inspired by Dance Examination by Edgar Degas, this lesson will allow children to explore movement as it relates to music; specifically French Classical. Children will explore the concepts of tempo (slow/fast), and crescendo and decrescendo (loud/soft) while expressing creative freedom with a variety of fabrics inspired by Degas.
Inspired by The Lesson in the Garden by Berthe Morisot, this activity will involve a scientific exploration of the effects of dark and light and its impact on color and shadows. Children will explore a variety of light sources and materials, and will have the opportunity to document their observations. The children will then return to The Lesson in the Garden painting to discuss their conclusions and comparisons based on their experiments and their examination of the piece.
Students will “fly” outdoors like the birds depicted in the Bird and Cornstalk Rug, collect nest-making materials, and report back to the group what they observed during their “flight.”
This lesson focuses on the story of the Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva of Compassion and the definition of “compassion.” Students will work with visual images and tools to enhance oral and listening skills, while building upon kindness in peer relationships and with others around them.
Children will examine the images of Garden Party on the Terrace of a Country Home, hearing briefly what each is about. They will then brainstorm a story about the image with the teacher and act out the scenario they’ve imagined.