3rd Grade: Wassily Kandinsky - What does music look like?

The 3rd grade students were introduced to Wassily Kandinsky and his Abstract Expressionism.  We talked about that "Abstract" means "not realistic", and how Kandinsky's art became more and more abstract.

We then focused on the idea of showing sound - specifically what music looks like.  Students talked about what they saw in Kandinsky's work, and how it may look like music.  Then students were asked to pick things out of what they had seen that they recognized: circles, zig zags, color, etc.  These are the things Kandinsky used and that we would also use in our projects.

Students added lines that they matched to the rhythms they heard.  Once the line work and shapes had been added, students then colored the shapes that their overlapping lines had created.