We learned that he was troubled and often his paintings reflected his moods. Later in his life, he started painting with bright colors. He makes the viewer feel like they are in the painting. In the painting below, he made the sun look so bright it actually made us feel like we should put on sunglasses!
We studied a variety of his paintings and shared what we noticed.
One of the best paintings he ever did was called The Starry Night. He likely painted this when he was really happy:
The first graders shared what the painting meant to us. They noticed the stars and moon in the sky, as well as the tree. They also commented on how the sky looked like it was moving and it gave them a feeling of calm.
I had found a cool optical illusion for them to try so that they could see the movement in the painting. I hope you'll try it by clicking on the one of the following links:
or click on the video below:
We worked with some Van Gogh apps, read some bibliographies, and researched his life on BrainPop, Jr.
We shared a lot of learning about Van Gogh! We coalesced our learning as we shared it by sorting it into categories as soon as we talked about it.
After reading about Van Gogh's life and investigating The Starry Night, we created our own interpretations of The Starry Night.
A few days later we added the dark parts to the foreground of our paintings.
You'll have to come to the LEADS Exploration Celebration to see our finished Starry Night artwork!
One of the highlights of our inquiry was seeing The Starry Night in dominoes:
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