Art Classes K - 5

The students in grades 1 - 5 attend Art class once a week for 40 minutes. The Kindergarten students attend Art class once a week for 30 minutes for one trimester during the school year as an introduction to the program.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Hibernating Happenings !



We enjoyed the month of January in the Art Room by focusing our attention on the artwork for Art To Remember, a fundraising project that our PTA has participated in for many years.

The kindergarten artists created rainbow colored caterpillars, the first graders created sunflower watercolor paintings while channeling Vincent van Gogh and in second grade our artists illustrated underwater scenes using the crayon resist method.

I'm sure you will be impressed with the masterpieces !

The Rich Rascals continued with art pieces that will complete their study of color during the second trimester of this school year. All the work will be bound together to create a wonderful representation of your child's Kindergarten art experience with Mrs. White. Look for their Kindergarten Color Book to arrive in April.

January felt like the perfect time to learn about collage and create a snow friend out of torn colored papers and crayon in first grade. We heard the story Snowmen at Night by, Sharon Arrowood and were inspired to make fun snow scenes.The students will use this artwork as a writing prompt and you will see both pieces of work in their First Grade Art and Literature Book at the end of the school year.

The first grade artists additional completed a study of line, shape, color and form by creating a Friendly Rock Monster. We painted our rocks one color and then when dry completed as many lines and patterns as we could to create many silly features. Pom poms and wiggle eyes were also added. This project will also be used as a writing prompt by the students with their classroom teachers.

In second grade we experimented with printing bubble wrap to create a textured paper. It was VERY difficult not to pop it! Once the papers dried we used them to created Snow People collages. The students did a fantastic job adding many details to make an interesting work of art. They will use this with their classroom teachers as a writing prompt and you will see it in their Second Grade Art and Literature Book at the end of this school year.






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