Space Week....1st Grade The Cow Jumped over the Moon

  Space Week:  Shape

11 Space Week Activities to try at home

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A YouTube reading of The Cow Tripped Over the Moon

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Lesson 5. The Cow Jumped over the Moon

1. We will be illustrating the cow jumping over the moon using shapes you already know.

2. You will need a white paper from your portfolio, your Sharpie, a crayon and something to trace a circle with.

3. Place your finder in the middle of the paper....then move it up just a little. This is where you will draw you cows head.

4. The cows head should be a trapezoid  shape.

5. Next draw you cows body, which can be a square or rectangle or a shape of your choosing. (Artist Choice)

6.  Now trace around your circle for the moon. 

7. On the moon you will need to add  the letter "C" for the craters. Your craters can be different sizes.

8. Now add your cow's legs, which can be rectangles or triangles or artist choice. Make sure your legs look like they are jumping over the moon. The front and back legs should be stretched in front and behind your cow. 

9. Go ahead and decorate your cow with spots, a tail, ears, eyes and a nose. You can add triangles for hooves. 

10. If you would like to add horns or an utter you can to do that, artist choice.

11. Before you color add a yellow ring on the outside of the moon to give it a glow.

12. Add some yellow stars in the sky.

13. Now color your picture anyway you choose.

14. Go back and color one side of the moon darker that the other. You can use the same color crayon to do this by just pushing harder on one side.

15. Color you craters in darker.

16. Color in space.

Steps  The Cow Jumped over the Moon

Step 1.  Find the center with your finger. Move. your finger up some and draw the cows head

Step 2.  Using your shapes, draw the cows body.

Step 3.  Trace your moon circle

Step 4.  Add you craters

Step 5.  Add you legs

Step 6.  Add on your tail, spots, face, hooves, horns and utter (if you want one).

Step 7.  Color the yellow moon glow and add the stars.

Step 8.  Color you project. Remember to add a dark side to you moon and darken the craters.

1st Grade Organic and Geometric Monster...

 the Elements of Art:  Shapes

Organic Shapes

African Abstract 

Nikki Chu

Geometric  Shapes

Lady with a Turban

Nikki Chu

Mixing Organic and Geometric  Shapes

Modern Turban Queen

Nikki Chu

Who is Nikki Chu?

Nikki Chu is a talented and inventive, powerful businesswoman in the world of product design and interiors. She was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.  Nikki has always had a passion to design since childhood. After realizing her love for the arts, Nikki attended a specialized design school called International Academy of Design.

Check out this amazing Video from the blog Art is Basic

Watch this YouTube video about geometric and organic shapes fro (Links to an external site.)

What are Geometric shapes?

Geometric shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements or regular sides and shapes. They do not usually appear in nature. 

Shapes created by Eric Carle

What are Organic Shapes?

Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals.

They have irregular sides and shapes.  Humans, flowers and fish are organic shapes.

Collage Les

Henri Matisse

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Our inspiration Piece 

Lesson 4. Organic Geo Monster

1. You will create a monster that has an organic shaped body. Remember to fill the page with your organic shape.

2. Inside your monster you will add geometric shapes

3. Inside your monster you will also add in lots of organic shapes.

4. Make sure you monster has arms and legs and eyes and a face.

5. The rest of the monsters details are artist's choice. That means you can decide what to add on next.

6. When you have finished designing your monster color it with crayons. 

7. You may color the back ground if you choose to.

8. Remember your monster has to have organic and geometric shapes in it.

9. Make sure to hit the Submit Assignment button to turn your work in. The due date is Oct 12, 2020

Lesson 4. Organic Geo Monster Steps

Step 1. Draw the organic body of your monster.

Step 2. Add in geometric and organic shapes.

Step 3. Give your monster lots of details including arms and eyes.

Step 4. Give your monster a face.

Step 5. Color your monster.

                                            

1st Grade Cow Jumping Over the Moon...Getting Ready for World Space Week....

Each year at my school we celebrate Space Week, which is Friday Oct 4-Thursday Oct 10 this year (2019). This years theme is "The Moon: Gateway to the Stars"

 I love the image of the cow jumping over the moon. I had a student win the Judge's Choice Award in the TEXAS Art Educators Association Youth Art Contest back in 2009 for her cow over the moon. That painting hung in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston all summer that year. So proud of her. We are actually Facebook friends now that she is all grown up. I hope she remembers her elementary school art teacher when she is a famous artist!

Diana M. and (me) Lee Darter at the MFA Houston

So in honor of  World Space week I will read The Cow Jumped Over the Moon to my 1st grade and then we create art based on the work by Cally Jane Studios.

You can by the book on Amazon HERE

 

 Click HERE to go to Cally Jane Studios

 

Scarp Monster Cut-Outs by 1st Grade...

So cute and fun....

Teaching a little eye-hand coordination!

Everyone gets a full sheet of their favorite color and the rest of the paper comes from the...

Scrap Bin! Yes I let them dump it out on the floor. 

We discuss proper "paper on the floor" etiquette before. 

I tell them it is very important not to crinkle their own scraps 

because other friends may be able to use it. Please simply

return it to the Scrap Bin. During clean up time I ask everyone to return to their

seats. Then I ask for "people with a certain color shirt" to hit the floor and clean up scraps.

Remember...we do not crinkle the scraps...they may become someone else's monster someday.

If the floor still needs attention I just ask the table managers to clean. When the floor is clean then everyone may start putting their work on the drying rack and their supplies away.

Make sure to give your monster details and personality!

2nd Grade Roosters Using Scrap Painted Paper...

We have had several snow days lately and when that happens it throws of my next day schedule off.

 I have my students save all the painted paper scraps they create. I have a scrap bin for all the leftovers. This bin comes in handy for a lot of projects and quick ideas....which I desperately needed on this day. These roosters were created by 1st grade using the scrap bin

The head, body and wing are cut in the shape of the letter U. I have my kids hold up their magic drawing finger and draw the letter U in the air. I tell them if they can draw the U then can create this rooster. Make sure to erase the U in the air so it is not hanging over you while you try to work. 

The legs are just rectangles, the eyes are circles and the beak is a triangle. If they would like to add feet those are just triangles as well.

When you break it down into simple shapes the kids then realize it is something they can easily do.

I always start all my demos by asking my students "does your bird (or whatever) have to look like mine". They tell me no. I let them know this is just one way to cut out their bird. If they have another way they can do that instead. 

This helps the kids that need the extra nudge and also allows the others to make their own creative choices. 

The last step is to add the feathers. I let the kids know they feathers are simple football shapes. Or 2 curved lines facing each other. 

Such personality!

Cute, fun and easy peezy! 

This child went for more of a parrot look. 

Love it!