Claude Monet Art Lessons

Claude Monet Art Lessons

Monet has always been a favourite artist of mine and visiting his home in Giverny, France as well as enjoying his famous works in multiple galleries, has been a highlight.

You can see the huge scale of his waterlily series of paintings in this photo I took.

Exploring his artworks with Years 4 (3rd grade) has been a real joy over the years, and we revisited this lesson (one of my favourites) again this year, based on my Waterlily tutorial, available HERE.

We started with observational value sketching, using my video I created as a reference. You can view the video HERE.

The students results are always beautiful and they really amaze themselves at how great their drawings turn out. Here are a the first 4 finished this year.

Next we explore a few different media, starting with oil pastels. Students learn to select 3 values of a colour, then I teach them to blend from darkest to lightest, ending with white. We do this on a single petal drawn in their A5 sketchbooks.

We follow this up, experimenting with water colour paints and then also with water colour pencils. Now students can choose which media they wish to use in their own water lily drawing (A4) later.

This year we also added a gorgeous clay sculpture element to extend our learning further and we were thrilled with the results. 

We used potters clay in Classic White and glazed with Stroke and Coat. We glazed onto bone dry greenware which I then ran through a bisque fire. I sent it through a glaze fire too to increase the shine aspect.

Please stay tuned to see how our waterlily artworks turn out as the term continues. But if you want all the steps now, click HERE to preview: 

CLAUDE MONET WATERLILY Impressionist Art lesson with VIDEO guide 3rd-5th grade

If you want the steps for the clay lesson, click HERE to preview:

CLAY WATERLILIES art project inspired by Claude Monet lesson for 2nd - 4th grade

Back to School - The First Three Weeks - Part 2 

Stationery

One of the biggest organisational tasks at the start of a new school year is managing students' stationery. With so many moving parts, items are easily misplaced or lost when students don't have clear guidelines for managing all of their new, shiny things.

I find that two clear systems have emerged for me over the years - student managed (for upper elementary) and teacher managed (mid and early elementary).

In this Back to school guide, I explain how to run each system and make them work for you.

Morning Routines

Starting the day right each morning can lead to a more positive day for both you and your students. In the next chapter, I share ways that I set up students for a successful start, including this example of my morning routine poster. Also included is a blank template for you to personalise.

Global Greetings

Together with the morning (before the bell) routines, the morning roll call is a great time to connect with students. One way I like to do this is to use a range of greetings from nations around the world. I created a set of greeting cards to display in your classroom for daily use. These are included in the back to school bundle, but you can also get them HERE.

Please join me again next week for another extract from this helpful resource or take a closer look at

BACK TO SCHOOL activities for first weeks of school and start of year - HERE

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