Arts Integration: Van Gogh and Literacy at School 9

First graders at School 9 in Paterson were learning about the artist Vincent Van Gogh.

Students viewed several slides about the painting The Starry Night with Art PIR Mrs. Sandler and their first grade teacher. 

Above:  The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

 Using crayons, students focused on a variety of line movements to create their Starry Night artworks..  

 Students were able to read many of the words in the Getting To Know The Artist book on Van Gogh by Mike Venezia.  When the students completed their pictures they recorded the information about the artist in their notebooks.  The classroom teacher elaborated on this project by helping the students with specific descriptive words.