Fun with Lines

A few new experiences were had on Friday. I planned and taught an art lesson from the kindergarten art curriculum. I taught the lesson not to my own students, but to a different kindergarten class. Very fun! 

Four of the kindergarten classrooms do art rotations twice a month. This allows each teacher to focus on preparing one lesson every other month rather than each lesson in the curriculum. The lesson is taught to each of the four classes. So, by the third or fourth time the lesson is taught, it has been almost perfected. 

My lesson was on lines. Students learned the formal name of each line, practiced making each type of line out of paint, and experimented with what shapes could be made from the five different lines. This was a very open ended lesson (which I loved!). I introduced the students to five main types of lines then they were free to learn more about them through their own thought process and experimenting with paint. 

A few of the students even discovered what letters they could make!

As the students were working, I walked around the room and pointed out different student’s interesting ways of using lines.

Part of me thought teaching a different class of students an art lesson (with paint!) might be challenging since they had never met me and I didn’t know any of their names. Quite the opposite was true, however! I enjoyed teaching the lesson and feel it went really well.