{"id":367,"date":"2015-11-20T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsartteacherlady.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:36:16","slug":"complementary-cheetahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsartteacherlady.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/20\/complementary-cheetahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Complementary Cheetahs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I sit down at lunch with our Librarian, Computer Lab\/Discoveries teacher, and Spanish teacher. We usually talk about anything but school\u00a0 but occasionally the conversation winds back around to our classes. Each of these three ladies has done a lot more teaching than me in wide varieties of situations. Each of them has explored different parts of the teaching profession and different age levels. Recently we all sat down and agreed that with the way the curriculum is set up now sometimes it feels like students are missing out on basic everyday information and we were discussing ways to add those into our lessons since we have a little bit more freedom than the classroom teachers. We all left feeling a little refreshed and ready to try and tackle the problem.<\/p>\n

I got back to my room though and started thinking, there some core art knowledge I’m skipping because it just feels like there isn’t time. Color theory tends to be a big one. I always have the students make color wheels and we talk about how its used but I’m bad about getting them back out and actually using them! So this year I am trying to be better!<\/p>\n

Personally I love color theory and to study it but there is one part that I’m not so fond of…. Complementary Colors. I know we say they “go so well together” but I just disagree. Unless its Christmas time I cringe a little when I see complementary colors together which means its never my favorite thing to teach. This lesson may have changed my mind though. We had so much fun with these Cheetahs and I think they are hilarious!<\/p>\n

\"image\"I mean I can’t not laugh when I see these faces.<\/p>\n

This lesson also happened to by my observation for this fall too so it was a doozy. of a day when we started this one.<\/p>\n

First grade had already covered primary, secondary, and neutral colors. The students also know we are looking at different color groups for each of our projects this year.<\/p>\n

I began the lesson with a little refresh of the groups we had studied and asked the students to name which project we used each set on. Then we looked over our color wheels for a minute and I told them they needed to get ready to identify a new group.<\/p>\n

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Every time we start a new group of colors I try to find a video to play, even better if its a song too. I found this hilarious complementary colors song. It had the kids and the principal in stitches the whole time.<\/p>\n