4th Grade
Monta Loma Elementary School
Mountain View, California
Last week, this class did the Native Plant Line drawings. This week, i passed out a, illustrated map of the 21 California Missions.
We then cut a middle-ground and glued a brown foreground to create depth in our compositions. Since this is a shape lesson, I opened discussion for what kinds of shapes they see on their handout, that make the architecture of the Missions. Rectangles, domes, squares, and triangles.
Demonstrating how to slowly pinch each side of the paper, they tore the biggest shapes and glued them. Then they accented these with darker brown, to add windows, bell towers, crosses, archways and more. These came out fantastic! They even had time to add a tissue paper warm/cool sky!
