My first grade artists are finishing up a special Mother’s Day project.  They are so excited to sneak their artwork home and hide it until May 13th!

We began by looking at the art of the great American artist Norman Rockwell, learning that Rockwell often told a humorous story through his art. First Graders created a little story about their Moms as they illustrated their newspaper, tying in to Rockwell’s ilustrations for the Saturday Evening Post.

Norman Rockwell – The Runaway

During the next class we created our flowers for Mom – beautiful lilac paintings that were carefully painted with just one little finger dipped in purple paint.  And finally – a beautiful name tag and ribbon wrap-up.  Happy Mother’s Day, lucky Georgetown moms of first graders!