February in the art room

Kindergarten and first grade completed a project based on a book by Barney Saltzberg entitled, Arlo Needs Glasses.(have your student watch the linked video, I'm sure they will enjoy it.)  The book is a great read and is really interactive with many pop-up tabs and moving parts. In this lesson we focused on drawing dogs, tracing, cutting, coloring with markers,and gluing. It was also a first time experience for K and 1st to work with oil pastels and colored chalk pastels. Sorry if they came home messy, but most of them loved every second of it! They also learned that Art is messy and that is perfectly okay!



 

 

Second and third grade completed their "Starry Night" projects and those are now hanging up in the hallways. During Valentine's week we created heart prints with bent toilet paper rolls and tempera paint. Students chose what colors would work best together, they learned about printing and overlapping. I think they really enjoyed this one day project. So many of our projects in art class last for weeks due to time constraints, so it was nice to have a short project.

 

  




I received so many thoughtful words, treats, and notes from students on
February 14th! Thank you students!






Fourth and fifth grade completed their plaster bandage sculptures and have finished painting them. This sculpture lesson included a self-evaluation. Students learned about rubrics and self-evaluation. We discussed why it was important as an artist to be self-critical and reflective, a very difficult challenge most of the time. But as always, students were very skilled at self evaluation. The sculptures will be on display in the school within the next week or two.

Art Club- students are in the beginning stages of planning a stop motion video that they are working on as a group. The video will take weeks to create and should be completed by May. The video will be posted on You Tube and presented at the end of the year. During art club students also create individual projects, which they design themselves.