09 November 2010

Still Life Fruit Bowls

Super proud of my first graders. I haven't taught this lesson in a few years, but it seemed appropriate as we are headed into November/Fall/Thanksgiving.

Students had to learn what a still life was. I asked them could a basket of puppies be a still life? Could I,  the teacher be a still life? The best way I told them to remember, was whatever a still life was, it couldn't be alive! They caught on right away.









The fruit is removable. Students created a pocket bowl so they were able to rearrange their fruit--put it in, take it out, move it to the left, make the grapes higher etc etc. They turned out great. These are the ones that were chosen to hang on the only display wall in our office!!!

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7 comments:

  1. Check out the students picture in the middle! Love this idea! Learning while creating - love it! Art was my favvvorite subject...I did ALOT better in there than Geometry! haha

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  2. The idea of removable fruit is genius! They did a great job.

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  3. I love that the bowl is a pocket and students can arrange their still life. I might need to try this . . . my still life's are never this exciting!

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  4. I love how your students who are in first grade, seem to be more talented with their art than some adults! Maybe it's that aspect of their very active imagination!

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