Art Form: Visual Arts
Supplies Needed
I Believe I Can book
Pencil, crayons, markers, colored pencils, or watercolor paint
1 piece of paper
Vocabulary
Space - the distance or area between, around, above, or within things (the area the artist uses)
Color - an element of art
Hue - the name of the color
Value – how dark or light the color
Line - a continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point
Shape - an enclosed space, may be two or three dimensional
Instructions
1. Read aloud, I Believe I Can.
2. Discuss the different things the children believed they could do in the story.
Examples: ballet, using their imagination, acting, planting a garden,
overcoming a fear, etc.
3. Talk about the illustrations in the book.
- What colors did the illustrator use?
- What kinds of lines do you see? Ex. Straight, curvy, thick, thin, zig-zag
- What kinds of shapes do you see?
- Did the illustrator use the entire space on the page for the picture?
4. Draw or paint a picture of what you believe you can do using all of the space on your page. Use different lines, shapes, and colors to create your masterpiece.
Extensions
Describe your picture to someone. Tell them all the details in your picture.
Write a sentence or story about your picture.
About
The REimagining and Accelerating Literacy through Arts Integration (REALAI) grant supports the literacy achievement of 3,200 students and 170 teachers, media specialists, and literacy coaches across six schools in Georgia and South Carolina.
In addition to professional learning for educators, this project contributes significantly to school library collections through the purchase of developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant books.
This grant also includes parent events to provide families with access to books and other content about how to support their child’s reading development.