But that's not all! First graders followed up with their knowledge of how artists use color with Jasper Jones, an artist who, like Jim Dine, loved color. Students had a chance to visually translate one of Jasper Jones's artwork and create a version of their own using their names!
Improvisation, repetition, and rhythm; all words associated with music, and all words that can be connected with the art world as well. To start with, 5th graders focused on learning how they could improvise when making art by learning how to make collages. Jazz serves as our inspiration, a perfect topic to connect with our upcoming Black History Month in February. Students talked about how we improvise with collages by learning to "fill the space" with instrument shapes, music symbols, and actual music! To get us in the jazzy groove, we listened to Benny Goodman's 1939 hit "Sing, Sing, Sing" (a modern version of the song plays in the 1994 film "The Mask" with Jim Carrey).
Follow along as we continue to build our collages. In time, we will learn how repetition and rhythm translate into the visual world of art; learn about artist inspired by the jazz movement; and listen to even more great jazz hits!