Students use liquid tempera paint to create paintings and practice color mixing skills. Tools of painting and their names are introduced. Grade Two students begin a museum study of the Impressionist painters as part of their classroom curriculum. Art room study continues with creating copies form color plates of master Impressionist paintings using the techniques of pointillism with oil pastels. The idea of optical mixture of color is discussed.
Children also write in workbooks.
The material covers vocabulary the children have had orally as well as new areas such as classroom objects and buildings in a town. There is no formal, regular homework although worksheets are corrected and corrections gone over in class. Greater emphasis is now placed on pronunciation. The instructor reviews repeatedly a limited number of sounds in French phonetics so the children will read them as French rather than as English is pronounced. Learnables progresses to picture stories.