We are BACK!

In the last nine school days we have had a great time! I have found myself enjoying the classroom more than ever! I have experienced some wonderful moments already this year. Students are ready to push themselves and accept the challenges that are offered in the art room. I have seen students stretching themselves and encouraging one another.  Ask your 3rd,4th, and 5th graders, about our introduction to the new school year. We are focusing on being a collaborative community and learning from one another. We are making mistakes, learning from them, and guiding others to find their own solutions. We have talked about LOTS of amazing things already. Kindergarten took on Kandinsky, First grade were architects and planned and put together their playground and playhouse ideas, Second graders and fourth graders have had the week to take their SGP's this week but last week they were busy sketching and constructing with continuous lines. Third grade was taking their name and exploring line and shape and then turning their names into a wire sculpture. Fifth graders are working with their names and zentangles and then they are building 3D inspirational words and photographing them. I am very excited about the work we have done and feel that there are only more amazing things to come from it. Here are a few pictures from the week, I'll post some more later.

Fourth grade worked on Thumbnail sketches and made a final large sketch using one continuous line and then took on the world of Twistees to create a face made with a continuous line of wire!  They loved this!

Kindergarten took on Kandinsky. In this week we talked about Kandinsky and his talents and explored how to get our materials out to work and put away for clean up. We learned how to tear paper into shapes and use dots not lots of glue and how to manage the glue bottle, we learned about how we can use pencils, crayons, oil pastels, and watercolor paints in the art room and we even took on loading the drying rack. I can't wait to hang these up! Best of all, I got word from a parent that there child was talking about Kandinsky at home!

Third grade worked on using lines to write their names, looked for shapes within the letters and around the page and colored them in, and lastly, they built their name with wire! The kids were challenged, as I realized how few third graders actually know how to write in cursive! Cursive writing is very helpful with this project.

I will post some pictures from the other grades soon and keep a look out in the halls for some of these works of art!