Welcome Spring

English and bilingual

3rd grade students

Warm colours are made with

orange, red, yellow and other combinations of these colours. As the name indicates, they tend to make

you think of sunlight and heat.

Cool Colours are made with blue, green and purple and other combinations of these colours. These colours have the ability to calm and soothe. Cool colors remind us of the water and sky.

Claude Monet’s garden

Claude Monet was born in Paris, France on 14th

November, 1840 and died in 1926. His father hada family grocery business and his mother was asinger. Monet also had a brother.He was a famous painter. He was one of thefounders of French Impressionist painting. Theterm Impressionism is derived from the title ofhis painting Impression, Sunrise. He liked naturevery much and had a nice garden in his house.Many of his pictures were painted in his gardenbecause he loved painting nature andlandscapes.

Claude Monet

The Waterlily Pond

Warm colours

Cool colours

DescriptionThis is a landscape. It is called The

Waterlily Pond. It’s by Monet.It depicts a garden with many flowers

and trees. There is a bridge and a pond. The painter used warm colours to transmit light and heat, perhaps because it is Spring. He also used cool colours which make you feel calm and relaxed.

We love painting withthe techniques of

Monet

Monet´s The WaterlilyPond is very interesting!

Is blue a coolcolour or a warm

colour?I’m painting a

bridge

I love painting. Do you love my landscape?

Coolcolours

make me feel calm.

I´m veryconcentrated

while painting!

We lovepaintingbridges

I love paintinglandscapes.

We enjoy paintinglike Monet.

We love painting withthe techniques of

Monet, too.

I need to reach forsome paint!

Red is a warm colour

We enjoy painting with thetechniques of Claude Monet

I love my landscape

I enjoy painting!. Do you like my landscape?

This is my masterpiece. Do you like it?.

It’s called TheWaterlily Pond

and it is anImpressionist

painting.

This ismy

belly.

And that’s all!