Surf's Up

Highlighting South Pacific Month, second graders learned surfing was invented in Polynesia, and that it was more than an international sport as it is today – it was a cultural and spiritual tradition! Students created a culmination collage featuring surfboard designs using lines, patterns and shapes drawn with colored pencils or crayons. Students also learned about the concept of space and how to suggest distance in painting an ocean with tempera paint sticks. They also represent a flock of seagulls flying above the water, suggesting space by including a variety of different sized birds.