This week we continued to study Pablo Picasso's work. We learned that Picasso produced at least 50,000 works of art and 1,885 paintings. He along with Georges Braque invented cubism, a form of painting that featured simple geometric shapes. He is also known for making collages - gluing previous unrelated things with images. No other painter or sculptor was as famous while he was still alive.
After a class discussion we made our own 3-D Picasso faces. First we traced a profile template of a face, then we drew a "U" shape around it, added oval eyes, eyebrows, hair and lips. The children then painted on the features. We then cut it down the middle, taped a paper towel roll onto the back, and Voila a face is born!
We finished off the week by baking delicious alphabet cookies. Mmmm, were they good!
We then made a graph of all the alphabet letter cookies we made. We counted out each letter and then added a cube to the graphing chart. We now understand that we use graphs or charts to compare the amounts of items, such as which have the most and which have the least.
Notes from Yuting:
Purple (紫色Zǐsè) was the new color we learned this week and the
children were excited to try out the purple handbell.
The children also listened to the Mandarin version of "Go Away, Big
Green Monster!" by Ed Emberley. "The Big Green Monster has two big
yellow eyes, a long bluish-greenish nose, a big red nose with sharp
white teeth..." From listening to this story, the children reviewed
colors and our head's features. Each time they shouted "Go away!" (走开
Zǒu kāi), a facial feature of the monster disappeared.
Here is the video to the Mandarin version of the book:
Love,
Ms. Bonne and Ms. Barbara
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