FALLING into the Best Practice....Showing Gratitude....THE BIG THANK YOU!

In honor of our troops, we show our patriotic colors this month here on the canvas for The Rock. As fast as October arrived it is on it's way out. Here in the art room at The Rock we have been busy and seems we continue to be. As a follow up of our September Celebration of International Peace and our support of this event, we are filling buckets around the world by sending our love and appreciation through letter writing inside of homemade cards to soliders stationed around the world. Same as last year we are working to create a world of Peace and learning to get along in the world of diversity we live in.  Learning to support and share and understand others, as we hope they will us. We are joining up with the Q100 Bert Show and helping them reach their goal that every solider that has been deployed from thier homeland should receive a heart felt hand written message.  So, in art this week and next we are creating those cards.  We are sicussing the importance of gratitude and sharing and showing it to those who help us in our lives and the lives of others. After this discussion we discuss card making and then off they go to create a cover for their message.  Their classroom teachers will take those cards back to their classrooms and ask their students to then go through the letter writing process to fill the inside with messages that will hopefully brighten the day or a man or a woman who had dedicated themselves to preserving our freedoms. Below you will see that class in and class out there are piles of students working to make these cards with meaning. I will drive down to Atlanta next Friday to drop off these cards to be sure they get to where they need to be for our messages to be delivered!  Thanks to The Bert Show for seeing the ned and leading us in a beautiful and meaningful way to fill that need.

Campaign Give Thanks started this week!

The cards started piling up!

Kindergarten stops to make smiles for soliders.

We are so thankful for all our US Troops do for us here and abroad.  We hope our message of appreciation does for our troops what it has done for us!

Art-tober is here!

So glad to be in the Fall officially. It is nice to feel a breeze and start to see the beautiful colors of the autumn we have been loning for during the hot months of the year!

We have be very busy here at the Rock. September started off with Pin Wheels for Peace. A great display this year again!  A shout out to my troops from Pack 511, who helped to place each Pinwheel with love in the yard here at school.

Kindergarten had been bust learning the rainbow and the color order. First grade has studied 2 artist, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns and created artwork inspired by them. Third graders have been working on the contour lines of a sihlouette and making cityscapes with Van Gogh inspired skies. Fourth graders and fifth graders have been working hard on stained glass designs and learning or reviewing the color families. Look here for some photos of the what's happenings in the art room over the last month!



Kindergarten Rainbow Prints





Kindergarten ROYGBIV Color and Cutting






1st- Flags- Line Review and Paint brush control



1st- Alpha Art- Jasper John Inspired



1st- Warhol Hand Printing with everyday things



2nd- Stained glass-Studying complimentary colors,
tints, shades, and ruler usage






2nd-Stained glass



3rd- Van Gogh inspired cityscapes

4th- Stained Glass-Color family review and printing basics





4th- Stained Glass-Color family review and printing basics





5th-Stained Glass- Printing Review and color to come



 As you see we have been very busy. I appreicate your continued support and remember not to wear your best on art day! Coming up is the Annual Fall Art Fundraiser. I look forwar dto seeing all these beautiful works of art on mugs, trivets, clocks, and keychains, and the many other options that Original Artworks has to share.