Five for Friday~ Eric Carle

Hooking up with one of my Favs!

Doodle Bugs Teaching for a

Hey! Mother Nature!  

Yeah... I said HEY! 

HEY YOU!

I'm kinda done with this snow!  

I WANT spring!  I miss her!

I want to smell flowers and grass.

I want to not have to carry my shoes and wear boots.  

I am DONE trying to fit my bulky sweater inside of my down winter coat.  

I can't wait until I am able to stand outside with the kids at recess and not turn into an icicle.

I WANT SPRING!!!

 On the days that we DID go to school this week, which was THREE! I was able to begin my Eric Carle Author Study!  Here are some amazing art pieces that we started.  Our mentor text was The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  I read it on Monday while I introduced Eric Carle. We take time to learn about the author before we read any of their literature. If you study Eric Carle then I suggest that you use his website as a tool.  It shows how unique he is as an illustrator AND an author.

As you can see, I LOVE painting tissue paper.  I feel that it provides my kinders with an authentic connection to the author and text. 
We watch, look, and learn his techniques and then we paint our own. 
 The students paint tissue paper as a whole group to prep our ART center for the week.  We make very hungry caterpillars of our own. 
 I trace circles on the back of the painted tissue paper and the students cut them out and assemble their caterpillar during the center.  (See Above Picture)

This year I wanted to have BIG pictures from my mentor text so that I could sequence the story in a whole group setting but still have them small enough that students could use them in a literacy center.  

I was very happy to find PINK AT HEART!  Her cards worked wonders.  I enlarged them to poster size and printed them out. My students enjoyed them as I introduced our mentor text AND then they were able to use them in our Read to Self Literacy Center.

I saved the BEST for last!  This goes out in the hallway.  It is a finger painted back drop with another art project from The Very Lonely Firefly. 
It's Awesome, right?  I LOVE IT!!!!
 I will tell you, this picture is from years past, with 2 snow days this week we haven't even ATTEMPTED this yet.  
Still, I had to share. Don't you just LOVE it!

Thanks for reading and...

Until Next time LOVIES!