Castle Drawings
with Mrs. Vaage's Grade 1A's
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We began to study how
castles were built by investigating all of the fiction and non-fiction
texts we had in our room. A list was compiled of all the castle features:
portcullis, walls made of rocks, windows that are tall and skinny,
drawbridge, moat, stairs, towers, doorways, gargoyles, gatehouse, roof,
and flags. When we were trying to imagine and recreate how the buildings were actually constructed, we began to draw bricks/rocks and problem solve as to how they would have stacked them to be solid. Here are our drawings. We did a rough draft from our imagination first of all, then we got our Lego blocks - 4 bricks and 8 bricks - to construct it ourselves. Then we drew again. It took us several days of practise to understand how to get straight edges and straight tops using whole and half bricks. We moved on to incorporating one corner on our wall, then 2 corners, and finally 4 corners. Then we attempted to draw that too. |
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| Our next step was to glue a colorful paper mosaic so that we could practise our building skills, pretending that our paper bricks were real castle rock/bricks. It took a long time to do - and these weren't even heavy! | |
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| Finally, we each selected one of the calendar photo pictures to use for our castle drawings. First we studied the picture to notice which features our castle featured. Then we looked and sketched what we saw. We celebrated at how good we actually were! | |
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| Then we drew our own beautiful imaginary castles. | |
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