Well, we’re a couple weeks into our poetry unit
here, and things are going great. We covered the elements of poetry and have
now ventures into the thick of it with acrostic, concrete, and haiku poems. I
wanted to share our haiku project from today because I was really impressed
with their effort on this one.
It’s not every day that your students can grasp
a concept like subtlety, and then show you that they GET IT. It is a beautiful
thing, my friends. Anyway, so after we learned a little about the history and structure
of haikus, we split the class into different seasons and started brainstorming
ways to describe nature in those seasons. Then, once we felt like we had enough
descriptive words down, they went to work making their own seasonal haikus.
Later for art, we looked at some really great
examples of mixed media and art journal pages so they could get a visual of
what our goal was, and started exploring with texture, color, and technique. I
allowed them to use any medium that we’d worked with this year, including
drawing/sketching, painting (watercolor & acrylic), doodling, collage,
stenciling, and sponging. I had to keep reminding them that mistakes could be
covered, and that layers were what make mixed media so cool. Once they got
that, the awesomeness started to emerge… Check out s couple of them below. Have
a splendid weekend!
Spring!
Summer!
Winter!
Fall coming soon!
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