Kindergarten: "What is art?" "How can mistakes turn into art?"

Hello kindergarten families,

This week in kindergarten we talked about, "What is art?" and, "How can mistakes turn into art?", as previously posted. To introduce this lesson I asked my kindergarten students to share some mistakes they have made in the past, some of my favorite responses were,

"I touched a drill bit"
"Sometimes when I am not allowed to do what I want I make a mistake"
"I spilled A LOT of cranberry juice ALL over!"

After we discussed our mistakes we read the story, "Beautiful Oops" By Barney Saltzberg. There is a great YouTube video of this book via: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZjMYdQjGM.

Miss Fisichella then shared her mistake of the day (I accidently cut up our big letter K). I then asked my kindergarten classes if they could help me fix my big letter K as well as how they thought we could fix it. One of my favorite suggestions on how to fix the big letter K was, "We could pour cement on it!" :)

Kindergarten then shared with the class what they saw on their way to school. I asked the class if they thoguht we could put the big letter K back together and make a "beautiful oops" by drawing a picture of what we saw on our way to school on each of the small pieces of the letter K. Kindergarten then discovered that we could turn almost anything into art and see art everywhere if we use our imagination, even during a simple car ride to school. :) 

A few of my favorite respones to the question, "What did you see on your way to school today?" were:

"Beautiful flowers with rain dripping"
"A UFO!"
"A BIG brown cow!"

Photos of our finished "beautfiul oops" letter K's are soon to come. I hope this lesson allows the students to continue to learn art room expectations (responsible and respectful), safety, as well as to begin to learn how to handle materials,  before we jump into learning about....COLOR!

Miss Fisichella's Oops!