Transportation Vehicles

What if we could make our own transportation vehicle to travel to school in? Would it have tires and ride on the ground? Would it have wings and fly you to school?

Inspired by a lesson I stumbled upon on the internet (I have looked and can't seem to find the source, but if you've seen this lesson, please comment the source so I can link it), I had my 2nd grade students at my student teaching placement create their invented vehicles out of collaged colored paper. Once we all finished our vehicles, we created a collaborative background mural using tire rollers and sponges to print the ground and sky. Then we added collage buildings and taped our vehicles to their environment.

Supplies

* Various colors of construction paper

* Glue sticks

* Scissors

* Construction paper crayons

* Large paper for the background

* black and white tempera paint

* Sponges, rollers, and anything else to print with

Kindergarten Shape Collages

And so it begins! I am student teaching at a wonderful K-8 school in an urban district. My cooperating teacher is great and I am absolutely loving it so far. This is one of the first projects we did with the Kindergarten students.

We thought collage would be an excellent way to introduce the element of shape to the kindergarten class. First students created shapes with scissors and then pasted them onto paper to turn them into something else. After we explored geometric shapes, the students then used their fingers to rip the paper and make organic shapes to collage with.

Supplies

* Colored construction paper

* Scissors

* Glue

* Crayons

It was fun to hold our shapes in the air and discuss as a class what they looked like. Children saw so many different things in the shapes, such as a crocodile, a dog, a house, and a worm. Once we figured out what our shapes could be, we pasted them down on paper and used crayons to create an environment for them to live in.