Having a blast in the art room!

This year in art so far we have been very productive!  I'm am so excited because kindergarten thru 5th grade has art once a week for 50 minutes. This has been a life savor because we are not rushing around trying to get our art finished! Plus, my little artists get to take home art the same day which they love and so do I! In kindergarten and 1st grade we have been learning about identifying and recognizing shapes. We have talked about what makes a shape and how does shapes differ from each other.

One project we just finished was Don't Let the pigeon drive the bus by Mo Willems. The kids love this project. We began watching the YouTube video Don't let the Pigeon drive the bus!
The kids LOVE this video because the video is interactive and they have a ball interacting with the pigeon. Every class made me giggle! They had so much fun! After the video we learned about a rectangle and a square. We discussed what makes them the same but also what makes them different. We used these two shapes to form a bus in which they then turned on their creative juices and created fun colorful buses. Lastly, I taught the kids how to draw the pigeon from our story as well as how we could add a speech bubble to make it look like he was begging us to let him drive our buses! I love how they turned out! Check them out below and let me know what you think =) until next time, enjoy our art!