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I recently did this lesson with my third graders. We began this lesson by listening to Jazz music. I asked my students to try to visualize the music while it was playing. We then discussed ways to show rhythm and movement in art.
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For this lesson, I taught my students to draw a guitar. After this, students were asked to draw designs or patterns to show rhythm. We then used warm and cool colors to paint our pictures.
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These turned out really nice. I can almost hear the music now.
Nice! Love the jazzy colors :]
ReplyDeleteThese are really colorful!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful!!! I am going to try this with my 3rd graders. Thanks!
ReplyDeletegreat job! love the colors. tempera? how did u set up the paint?
ReplyDeleteSuper fun! I did this lesson w/my students and they loved it. Thanks. (I linked you:)
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