Talking and Investigating. Show the children a collection of landscapes. Ask them to describe what they see in the images including the sky, the land etc. Explain that a landscape is a picture in which the land and that this is the most important thing in the picture. If possible, ask the children to look out the window and describe what they see in your own environment. Focus on asking questions to focus their thinking. E.g., Where do the sky and land meet? Can we see where that is? Did you see this in the pictures we looked at? Using a plain paper strip, take one of the pictures provided and mask over the horizon. Ask questions as they investigate their thoughts. E.g. - How does it this picture look? Can you see where the sky and land APPEAR to meet! (Remember …show more content…
They should see that this doesn’t look right. Talk about the different aspects that might be included in a landscape painting. (Hills, fields, water, sky, land, trees etc.) Explain that they will be working on a landscape painting so begin to make a list of those aspects they might want to include. Remind them that in this activity they do not need to include people. If a quick walk around the school (outside if the weather permits) is possible, demonstrate the use of the viewfinder: look through the window with the viewfinder held at arms length. Describe what you see, moving it both horizontally and vertically so that something different can be seen within the window. Pretend to take pictures of the views that you are seeing. Explain that an artist looks carefully and plans their landscape work. Give them some time to look through their own viewfinder. Get them to move it around until they find a few good, but different