by Dennas Davis | Dec 11, 2023 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will continue our pet theme. First we’ll make prints using the cat yarn print blocks from last week, and then create dog drawings and paintings. We end the day inventing a fantastic dog house! Grades 3 – 5 Week of Dec 11 – 15 1 Hour &...
by Dennas Davis | Dec 2, 2023 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will make 3D ornaments out of cardboard and paint them. These will stand up on a table or hang on a tree and can follow non-Christmas themes if needed. Afterwards, they will make their own stamps and use them to create original wrapping paper. Grades...
by Dennas Davis | Nov 26, 2023 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will all bring candy to create a huge candy “store” that everyone can “shop” at for their houses. A half-gallon paperboard milk carton is cut in half to make the house, which is glued to a small cardboard base. Icing and candy cover the entire house!...
by Emily Venturino | May 8, 2023 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW For our final lesson of Year A, we'll be making and decorating a big box party bus! It's great fun and students learn to work together. Then everyone gets to redesign their school bus, and invent a mobile house bus for the summer. – – –...
by Dennas Davis | Apr 20, 2023 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW After starting with a fun name guessing game, students adopt their color name for the day. Then there are 3 games. The first is a puzzle that reinforces looking for big shapes. Next is a color mixing challenge using paints. Finally, there is a creative crazy...
by Dennas Davis | May 13, 2022 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Our extra class is all about cartoon animals. We use simple shapes to build characters and then apply some funny expressions. The last project is a one-page, 4-panel comic book they create on their own using printed templates. If time allows, they get to make...
