Friday 23 February 2018

Puppet Dragon-Friday's Art

Feb.16th is Chinese New Year. Some children know this special day. 
Today's art, we made Puppet Dragons.


The children coloured a dragon's head and tail with crayons and coloured pencils.



Each children picked a favorite colour of constraction paper for the body.
and then folded an accordion patterm of back and forth movement.
Learing about patterns is an important step in math understanding.
The children felt prout of their folding.

They connected the head with the body and tail. And added two popcicle sticks to hold.


 
 
They all loved this lesson and the art and discussion was invigorating.
 




 













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