November 11th is Veteran's Day so we used one of the Picturing America prints, Childe Hassam's Allies Day May 1917, to create multimedia pictures and to expand our knowlege of history a bit too. The students were told to look at the print and then do their picture from the perspective of being at the parade--what are they seeing, what are they hearing, is there confetti falling, are there crowds of people, etc. The picture was done in colored pencils with construction paper confetti.
We learned when Veteran's day and Memorial day began. We found out which president was in office then. We identified most of the flags in the print. We talked about people throwing confetti (shreds of paper) down onto the parades in times past. They did a great job interpreting the day.
No comments:
Post a Comment