Raggedy Ann and Andy
We really enjoyed our discipline based
arts unit on Raggedy Ann and Andy. We read the book Raggedy Ann Stories,
we studied the art of Johnny Gruelle, we learned about jazz music, and
we learned about what life was like in the 1920's. The Raggedy Ann stories
were written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle during the 1920's for his
daughter Marcella Delight Gruelle. It was very interesting to see
what life was like during the 1920's as compared to life today. We compared
toys of the 20's to toys of today; we also listened to jazz music of the
1920's and compared it with music of today.
Some of the activites we did included
drawing Raggedy Ann/Andy portraits, we wrote our own Raggedy Ann story,
we did a talents activity: my shoe button became a .....
We concluded our unit on Valentines
Day with a Raggedy Ann Candy Heart Party. One of our favorite stories
was How Raggedy Ann Got Her Candy Heart; so this was a perfect conclusion
to our unit. We did a lot of activities with candy hearts:
graphed them, measured with them, sorted them, made patterns, counted,
graphed our favorite flavor. We also did a talent activity:
my heart became
a ...... I put a red heart sticker
on each child's paper and they transformed it into something else.
Our Raggedy Ann/Andy Portraits
