Questions for Class: What is this? Is it a

painting or is it fabric? How is this made?

*1.) Opportunity to: Explore different mediums! What is drawing? What is painting? What is sketching? Why do artists sketch first? Can we sketch?

Is this a photo or a painting? How can you

tell?

Can you draw a deer with your pencil first?

Activities with different mediums: 1.) Weaving with colored yarn to make animals. Cutting up different colored yarn & gluing it as a collage. 2.) Using different paints. Watercolors & acrylics. 3.) Using different pencils, colored pencils, crayons. 4.) Torn paper mosaic. (These incorporate texture)

Why do we study Art? Is it

important?

If we all drew ‘cats’ would they look the same?

Diversity in Art lets students examine and look at other cultures.

What can we learn about

other cultures?

Fact: All cultures produce art.

Why?

*Literacy Development: Write your own story about an animal in the book (with

pictures)

Why Art?

2.) Motor skills & Hands-on Art Activities: Create a collage of baby animals using pictures of magazines. Try and find a Mother and a baby animal. (Class will be broken into groups and given materials, magazines, glue, tape, scissors etc. *Each group will produce one collage of baby animals to share with the class. (Identify new baby animals we have NOT seen in the book)

SCIENCE Adaptations: Baby Birds hatch from

eggs. Where do baby bats come from? What kind of

animal are they? What about baby Kangaroos?

What is a marsupial? Is an Opossum a marsupial?

MATH: How many babies are in a ‘gaggle of geese’ and How many cubs are

in a ‘litter’…?

Use this book as ‘introduction’ to

other artists:

FRIDA KAHLO

Above: “When a bus accident left her in unimaginable agony, her paintings expressed her pain and depression - and eventually, her joys and her loves. Over and over again, Frida Kahlo turned the challenges of her life into art.” –also available in bilingual books (ELL’s)

Leonardo Da Vinci

Above: *Da Vinci is most famous for portraits. “What can we learn from drawing portraits of ourselves and others?” Activity: Create ‘self-portraits’ of ourselves. How do we see ourselves?

4.)

3.)

Georgia O’Keefe

Right: “Georgia O'Keeffe viewed the world in her own way. While other girls played with toys and braided their hair, Georgia practiced her drawing. As an adult, Georgia followed her love of art from the steel canyons of New York City to the vast plains of New Mexico. There she painted all day, and slept beneath the stars at night. Throughout her life Georgia O'Keeffe followed her dreams--and so found her way to become a great American artist.”

5.) Left: Sounds of animals..Play based activities based on animal sounds. Acting out different animal movement & sounds!

*Introduction to ‘counting’

Works Cited:

Retrieved from Amazon.com 2/21/2015: http://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Is-Georgia-Portrait/dp/015204597X/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1F4GES9YAEYZY8P0VBFK

http://www.amazon.com/Frida-English-Language-Edition-Winter/dp/0590203207

http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Animals-Little-Ones-Works/dp/0810994577/ref=la_B001IYVEMK_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423878625&sr=1-2

References:

http://www.metmuseum.org/

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met