Cheeseburger in Paradise…I like mine with lettuce and tomato

The first grade has been talking about texture.  Each year we make cheeseburgers (or in some cases, veggie burgers) with french fried potatoes.  We discuss the shape of our hamburger buns, hamburger meat, cheese and toppings.  They have to make sure they understand the difference between a geometric and organic shape.  Then we move onto  texture and how we can make it out of construction paper.  We keep the paper smooth for the cheese, tomato and onion, rip and crumble up the paper for the lettuce and hamburger meat, cut a spiral line for the onion and fold the paper like a zig zag line to make crinkled french fried potatoes.  I save the mustard and ketchup for last.  We mix yellow and red paint to make orange.  This project always makes us hungry!

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Colorful Clowns

Kindergarten has been working with shapes and lines to create our colorful clowns.  We talk about the emotions that we feel when we see a clown and what colorful costumes, hair, and makeup they have.  This crayon resist used crayons and watercolor as the media.  We traced all our pencil lines in crayon and then painted in with watercolor.  I also painted with tempera at my other school.  Students tried to cover up all the space on the paper with their clown and polka dots.  Patterns were used on the buttons and stripes.  These creative clowns are always so colorful!