1st Grade Woolly Mammoths

To start up the year, 1st graders talked about prehistoric animals, primarily the WOOLLY MAMMOTH!! Our element focus on this project was Texture, Line and Space. Our DSS friends taught us a bit about the woolly mammoth, which you can find below! After we had our intro, we did a guided drawing (I draw a line, they draw the line) to create our mammoths. We drew with oil pastels right off the bat (after discussing that they are permanent so we need to be SUPER careful). We use pastels because they make us draw bigger and because they work by leaving a layer of oil on the paper that helps with "creating a force field/wall" for our paint not to run. We drew with white pastel on our paper to create snowflakes and stars for our very first "resist" as well!! The kids were so excited to see the magical snow and stars appear as they painted over them. We covered the topic of a horizon line being where the sky meets the ground and had to learn to "hop over lines" so that we could make our icebergs in the background without crossing out our mammoths. Here's some photos of our process! They'll be done once we re-outline them this week!