Stone Henge with a Creative Twist

Here she is using Hershey Candy Bars!

We have been working with all of my K-6 grade levels on our new project "Stonehenge with a Twist"!  These are so entertaining...and I can't wait for the final pieces to reveal to
you.  Here are some sneak peaks as well as my 5th-6th grade power point I used below.  The power point has 2 you tube clips that were perfect with the lesson as well.


Thanks to my Art Teacher Team we collaborated a great lesson for this!  LOVE IT!

We did our reserach about Stonehenge...made Fact & Theory cards then prepared our thinking by construction replicas of Stonehenge using blocks with our table teams. 


I have 3 variety lessons rolling with this. 
5-6th are doing their own "POPULAR ICON" inspirations of stonehenge...LOVE THEM already!
2nd-4th are drawing their versions & then using our LINE desing study to create lines in each stone.
K-1st are gluing on paper rectangles...then using the book Harold & the Purple Crayon to draw PURPLE line designs along with the students photo so they appear to be visiting Stonehenge.

Prehistoric Cave Art - Cave of Lascaux

We are beginning our year in art following a time line dating back 32,000 years ago and traveling to France to learn about a famous Cave of Lascaux. 

 

Our class had a great time learning about the Cave of Lascaux. The book First Painter by Kathryn Lasky with amazing illustrations by  Rocco Baviera was a perfect fit for our study.  The book even illustrated how people from that era left their hand print as their signature on the cave walls.  Finally the students created their own cave art drawings under our own classroom cave  which was made from a large black sheet draped over tables.  Thanks to my new teacher intern Mr. Willett together we constructed a huge cave outside our art room covering the ceilings and hallways with the student produced cave art!

We also took a virtual field trip inside the cave at:  http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/02_00.xml