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Van Gogh Sunflowers by Second Grade!

First Grade Winter Landscapes

First grade is finishing up their COOL Winter Landscapes this week. Most classes have added their snow and details. Our final step is our self assessment. Students will do a small self evaluation of their work. Our first grade self assessment is simple, but it is an important step in learning how to look at our work.

Students will be gluing their self assessment to the back of their work. Be sure to check it out when your child brings their work home!

 

For this project, we learned about landscapes, space, proportion and cool colors (blue, green, purple). First graders learned how to identify the three parts of a landscape (foreground, middle ground, and background). We also discussed space and proportion (in first grade terms!). We discussed how objects appear smaller as they get farther away and how objects that are close appear larger than objects in the background. 

Students chose to add either a tree or a snowman to their foreground (making it big, of course!).

In the picture below, you can see the student demonstrated an understanding of space by drawing a tree in the middle ground that is smaller than the snowman in the foreground!