1 Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

This month we learned about Cave art. Prior to people writing on paper they first wrote using picture drawings in caves. It was a way to communicate and also they believed it could protect them. They would put the art on the walls to form a sort of sanctuary.

We also talked about God giving the 10 commandments to Moses on Stone Tablets.

We read a chapter out of a book called "Days of the Cave People". The chapter discussed the tools and materials they would gather together.

These are similar to the pictures I passed around. I actually swiped these from my friend Lisa's Blog.

I assembled a cave from tables and taped on brown paper so the children could feel like they were in a cave. They were given nature colored crayons (reds, browns, sepias, blacks, and greys) and were told to pick a part of the wall to draw something on.

We played a couple games. One was duck duck goose, but we used Cave, Cave, Art.And then we played Caveman says. (A clever improvise by one of the moms.)After the drawings were complete we cut out each child's art work and let them take it home for their portfolios.

This month Ms. Lisa taught the class printmaking. We learned about Hokusai, and located Japan on the map.

 

 

                                                                                                                 

We read the book "The World That God Made." We discussed God being the master artist and creator of art. We also talked about how we are all special in his site and are his masterpieces.

We looked at the Mud Handprint Circles by Richard Long. We used our hand and fingerprints to designe our new group t-shirts. We will use them each month when we meet.

Since we are studying one artist a month, I thought this would be a great idea each month for one of our at home projects. So each month we will create a different insert for our mug and we will drink from our Artist of the Month Mug. I thought it might help the children remember the Artist and the technique name.

Today was our Kickoff day for our new Art Co-op. We voted to call the group Little Hands. The ages of our children are Pre-K -2nd Grade.

We are really excited about learning more about art.  Each mom volunteers to teach one month. There is so much to glean from each mom and her different perspecitve.

Our plan is to meet together once a month to learn about one artist and do a project related to his/her technique.  (At home we study more about the artist during the month.) We are also putting together 3 ring binders with page protectors. In this we store any handouts, our art examples and a few pictures of the artists paintings/work.

Linda taught us about George Seurat and Pointillism. We learned he was from France. So we learned to count in French to three. We also recieved a short bio hand out, an outline map of France and flag of France Page. (We plan to practice pointillism at home on those pages.) She read a book about Art and showed us a few pictures of George's work. You can see the dots placed together closely to make the colors meld.