We have been making some art to put on fundraising calendars this week and used it as an opportunity to teach the children about shading and the colour wheel. The children have been drawing bottles and practising shading them according to a light source, drawing the sun in one corner of the page to remind them where the light is coming from.
After some practice they set out a composition with four bottles and planned a background.
We wanted them to use colours that were next to each other on the colour wheel, so showed them examples of the colour wheel and modelled painting colours that were next to each other on a grid.
This was my model, quickly drawn up before school and at morning tea
Here are today's artworks drying, showing the grid and the compositions in progress.
I found this exercise very interesting as it really showed the power of modelling in showing children what is expected - they responded so well to seeing artworks their teachers had created and it seemed to work so much better than just giving the instructions verbally.
GTS 2: Graduating Teachers
know about learners
and how they learn.
Here are some of the finished artworks, displayed on the window.
2A: Graduating teachers have knowledge of a range of relevant theories and research about pedagogy, human development and learning.
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