week 9 and 10

Well I'll be honest...this blog may fluctuate from weekly postings to bi-weekly postings. We are just so busy in the art room...and sometimes we stay on the same project for a few weeks.

Kindergarten and first grade students continue to work on their collage (robot & butterfly project) and we are crossing our fingers that they will be completed next week. Some students already have their projects done and they are turning out really well...more to come on that next week. Some robots projects are already finished at Corse Elementary.

Second and third grade, have jumped into fall by creating glue line pumpkins on black paper and are using chalk to learn about value, shading, layering, and blending.  They seem to enjoy getting messy with chalk. Third graders at Corse are creating glue line self-portraits, which will be interesting.

Fourth and Fifth grade are done with their long project of Wayne Thiebaud inspired Dessert drawings.  They will go up in the hallways this week and next. They have started creating glue line drawings. This is a quick project for them and will be completed in three or four sessions.

Please feel free to stop in and see me at conferences on Tuesday, October 30th.

Here are some beautiful pumpkins for you all to enjoy during this lovely Autumn we are having!!!!

week 7 and 8

I fell behind on my blogging last week, so you get weeks 7 and 8 together!

Most grades have moved to their second projects, except for 4th and 5th grade, which have gotten behind because of assemblies and various school activities. I am glad to see that 4th and 5th grades are finishing up with their desserts. They are turning out beautifully.

Kindergarten and first grade were introduced to the concept of torn paper collages and backgrounds last week. They love being able to tear colorful paper and exclaim "a dot not alot"...while gluing. This rhyme seems to help those students who enjoy making puddles of Elmer's on their paper. After their collages are done..they will be creating robots to add to the piece. This project was inspired by the Robot and Butterfly project from Iowa City....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JvPopzegAI
while we aren't doing stop motion we are creating a 2-D project that is similar to this idea.

Second and Third grade have started on their glue outline drawings of pumpkins just in time for Autumn. They created pumpkin patches complete with vines and leaves. They have just started to color them with chalk. This is great project to discuss the elements of line and value.

Please enjoy our photos! I've included some of my own photos from the beautiful leaves of Burlington.

   Beautiful Burlington!
 
 

 
   We have lots of ice cream lovers here!

 
 

Paper Collage

Pumpkins-glue outlines

  teacher example