WInslow Homer and Alma Thomas Will Have Competition!
Help me give my students individual water color sets so they can learn to paint like Winslow Homer and Alma Thomas!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Jacobus's classroom raised $351
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
My Pre-K inner-city artists have been "distance learning" since March of 2020. Some will be returning to in-person learning in mid-April. None have had paints for a year. It is very hard to learn that blue and yellow make green when you can't mix colors and discover the magic yourself! They need to blend colors and blow on puddles of paint with straws to mix colors and make oceans, rainstorms and flower gardens. We will learn about the wax resist process by using our recently and generously donated beeswax crayons to draw Romare Bearden city streets and painting over the city with watercolors.
Faith Ringgold quilt square collages, rain sticks from paper towel tubes and dried beans, mixing paints to learn about colors; all are part of Pre-K art.
My artists love to create. Recently they have had "sand study" and have drawn hermit crabs with spiral seashell homes, symmetrical starfish, and curvy line camels with two and sometimes three humps. (Yes, 3-hump camels are a rare species with charming personalities).
Soon we will be doing a unit on "water study." We need watercolor paints. "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai requires paint!
My Project
My Pre-K students love art. We are currently doing remote schooling and sometimes even mom and dad do their own drawings. However it has been more than a year since the children have had paints. Although I asked that they be ordered they were not in the budget.
Watercolors are so much fun and art should always be fun.
When we did have art in person a boy who mixed blue and yellow paint to produce green said, with awe, "It's magic!" Every child needs to perform magic! Help us, please.
We need to paint The Great Wave by Hokusai with construction paper sail boats, Winslow Homer seascapes with sharks and star fish. The White House needs an Alma Thomas painting again and a masterpiece from Newark, NJ! It will take a few years for my kids to perfect their water color techniques but we have to start!
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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