Major Catch Up!

First I want to apologize for my blogging absence. My husband and I have recently purchased a "fixer upper" house and it has consumed all of my out of school life. I have been up to my eye balls in paint, putty, and pretty much every tool ever imagined. I will post pictures of our progress soon!


My Waverly-Belmont kiddos did some awesome, amazing, wonderful art the first half of school. I just wanted to highlight a few of the projects they finished up before the winter break.


My Kinders created winter landscapes, the final products were incredible. Let's hope they bring us some snow this year! We read a book with lots of beautiful snowy landscapes. And then each student was able to identify the horizon line, the foreground, and the background. Check out these beauties.

Now first grade created some outer space art! We talked about spheres and how to color to make the planets look like they had dimension. We used Crayola construction paper crayons on black paper. Every kid needs some construction paper in their life. They are the bomb.com! They make brilliant color on construction paper. Once they finished their outer space drawing we cut up some old painted paper and drew astronauts on them. The artists outlined with sharpie and then cut and glue scrap paper to add details to their 'nauts. While they were creating their 'nauts I was calling them up to spray paint their background with a little white tempera and water. They loved this! Even though they only got to squirt three times. You would think it was the best day of their life! Finished projects were AMAZING!

Second graders did some fabulous weavings! Weaving is one of my fave things to teach, so I feel like the kids enjoy it because I love it so much. We started out each class creating a strip and then each student got to weave their paper strip(weft) in a huge piece of construction paper(warp). Once everyone go the jist they created their own paper weavings out of construction paper and painted paper strips. Students then created a collage of a house out of their weaving and scrap paper. I love these!

Third graders also created some amazing weavings. We just used those good ole chinet plates. They work just like a canvas. We looked at the art of Kandinsky and they they painted some concentric circles with Crayola tempera paint. Once those dried they added designs with black paint. We then learned about weaving. They warped their loom(plate) and then wove some beautiful yarn to create these lovelies.

Fourth graders had an awesome December. They have been working so hard and creating some beautiful artwork. I want to show you two projects they have been working on. We read the book "Snowmen at Night" by Caralyn Buehner. They then created their own snowman at night. We talked about drawing spheres to make it look like they were three dimensional. They used chalk on this project so they practiced blending. The catch was the snowman had to be doing an action. These turned out so fabulous.

Fourth graders also learned about the Ndebele people. They learned about their culture and specifically their artwork. We read the book "My painted house, my friendly chicken, and me" by Maya Angelou. They created an artwork in the Ndebele style using primary and secondary colors and black lines and shapes. I love these abstract pieces!

Talk Soon!

Sarah

International Dot Day 2015

First graders, Second graders, Third graders, and Fourth graders celebrated dot day the first 2 weeks of September. Dot Day is September 15th. This is a day that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and connecting. The inspiration for this day is from the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This book encourages everyone to make their mark! This book is fabulous for the beginning of the year. Some students are nervous about art and may not have confidence, which is crazy, because children's art is just fabulous! But this book helps teach students that there are all types of artwork and different is great in art!

First graders created these awesome abstract pieces. Students practiced creating lines on the clear touch panels and then they used a black crayon to create line designs on their paper(making their mark). They used liquid water to paint the shapes created from the lines they drew. Students used bold, bright colored paper to create concentric circles to put on their paper.

                           

                    

                    

                   

                    

Second graders worked collaboratively to make an awesome mural. Each class created a section to this mural. Each table created a piece for the background and then each student created a flower from a paper plate and painted paper. I got this idea from this awesome art teacher's blog http://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2014/09/in-art-room-flower-y-mural-for-dot-day.html.

                                                         

                        

                      

Classes Left to Right Mr. Herman, Ms. Jamerson, Mrs. Tilson

Third graders created these awesome exploding dots. They came up with some awesome definitions for line, shape, pattern, and design. They then created an abstract piece of art with crayons using line, shape, pattern, and design. They painted these with watercolors and then cut them into 1 inch strips. They used construction paper to make a core and then glued these strips to their core. And used some paper techniques to enhance their exploding dots. This idea came from this awesome art teachers blog http://elementaryartroom.blogspot.com/2013/09/exploding-dots.html.

                                        

                                          

                         

Fourth graders created these amazing mixed media pieces. Students glued yarn down on a circular piece of cardboard. They then put aluminum foil on the circle. Students then used sharpies to create designs on the aluminum foil. They painted a square piece of cardboard and glue their design on the cardboard. These are awesome!!!