On Monday, March 12th, Mrs. Häberle visited the third grade class to teach us about the Spanish painter Joan Miro. He liked to paint with bright colors and simple shapes. Some popular shapes that kept reappearing in Miro’s paintings were the sun, moon and stars. Mrs. Häberle discussed the life of Miro with the class. Then they were given three puzzles of famous paintings to assemble in their groups. After completing the puzzles they had to decide which of the paintings was painted by Miro. They were all successful with this! Finally she asked the children to think of a bright, hot sun and they were given acrylic paints and a palette knife to create an image of the sun as Miro might have done. They approached this task with much enthusiasm and creativity, as you can see below!



This week we inquired into the life and works of Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist who was fascinated by nature, flowers, mountains, the sky, animal bones from the desert, cityscapes and such.  She painted these objects close up to help people see and experience these everyday objects the way she saw them.  Here are a few of the children’s’ creations in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe.