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Hello Howard Families!

Here is an update as to what is happening in the art studio!

Kindergarten has completed “Texture Turkeys”.  We used texture plates to create implied textures on our turkey drawings.  We talked about the difference between surface texture (smooth, rough, bumpy, fuzzy, prickly)  and the density of an object (hard or soft).  This would be great to review at home with your kinders and all other grade levels as well!  A counter top may be hard (knock on it) but the surface texture is smooth.  Let them compare the texture of Mommy’s face (smooth) to Daddy’s face (rough) by rubbing it.

First grade:  We just completed our unit on The Father of Abstract Art, Wassily (W is pronounced as a V) Kandinsky!  Ask your child what a concentric circle is!  Ask what Crayon Resist is!  We are continuing with more abstract art by tracing french curves, designing them with colored pencil, and later will cut and collage them onto other papers.

Second grade:  We just completed our unit on The Father of Abstract Art, Wassily (W is pronounced as a V) Kandinsky!  Ask your child what a concentric circle is!  Ask what Crayon Resist is!  Ask what Crayon Resist is!  We are continuing with more abstract art by tracing french curves, designing them with colored pencil, and later will cut and collage them onto other papers.

Third grade:  We just completed our Sunflower Still Life using chalk strokes in the style of the impressionist painter, Vincent Van Gogh.  Ask your child about foreground, middle ground and background.  Look for these on dispaly in the hallways!   We are beginning color mixing and the study of The Father of Abstract Art, Wassily Kandinsky.

Fourth grade:  Completing our 3D sunflowers this week!  Beginning some gesture drawing, then moving into color mixing with a study of The Father of Abstract Art,  Wassily Kandinsky.

Fifth grade:  We just created bowls for our Empty Bowls Meal to take place this Monday at Park Place.  ALL are invited!  Make it a family tradition!!!  See flyer below!  We are glazing the bowls this week and many of our students were and will be filmed creating these bowls for our Dearborn channel.  Students will also be completing their amazing Impressionist Sunflower Still Life by Thanksgiving!  Wahoo!  Thank you to the parents/students who have already brought in their tissue boxes!!!

Hello!

Here is an opportunity to experience Dearborn’s own Glass Academy!   If you’ve never been, I highly recommend you check it out!  They have a gallery/store to purchase hand blown glass and lamp work glass.  You can also watch the artists at work making glass!

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1583c0cbc7247290?projector=1

Current art studies:

Kinders are working on Kandinsky Circles.  Tracing cups and cutting out the circles.  Gluing it to the “Y” tee they created with paint!

1st-3rd are creating abstract paintings in the style of Wassily Kandinsy – the “Father of Abstract Art”.  Vocabulary to help your artist with:  Concentric circles, abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky.

1st and 2nd add crayon resist to the list of vocabulary.

3rd add primary colors, secondary colors and neural colors.

4th and 5th are working diligently on completing VanGogh.

5th grades will be creating a clay bowl for the annual empty bowls meal!  Please plan to attend with your family!

Hello!

For the past two to four weeks, I have been working with your child on drawing and cutting out shapes.

I have, as well as the classroom teachers, noticed a great need for our students to improve their skills with

drawing basic shapes and then cutting them out neatly.  It would be great bonding and skill building time for

you and your child to work on these skills at home!

Here is how to get started!

First, have a pair of child-friendly, blunt-ended scissors for your child. I recommend keeping them stored in a place that only you can get to!  Meijers, Walmart, Walgreens, KMart, Kroger, Rite Aid, Michaels and JoAnn’s are a few stores that carry these.

Next, grab some paper and a writing utensil such as a pencil, pen, crayon or marker.

Glue stick would be great for putting the shapes together!

Now you are ready for some fun!

Here are a couple ideas:

Draw a large circle and cut it out (orange paper or use crayon to color some paper orange)

Draw and cut two triangles for eyes, one for a nose and 5 or so for a mouth!   Glue them to the orange circle and you have a jack-o-lantern!

Draw and cut a large green oval, large black triangle and a looooooong skinny rectangle.  Glue the rectangle horizontally near the top edge of the oval and the triangle to the center of the rectangle and you have the start of a witch.  Allow your child to draw and cut shapes to create eyes, nose and a mouth!

Have  your child draw, cut and glue shapes to create a house!

TIPS:  While working with your child, have him/her go very slowly while drawing shapes.  With the rectangles, squares and triangles, help them to focus on drawing crisp corners.  Sometimes their angled shapes look omore like circle and ovals.  While cutting with the scissors, have them go slow.  RELAX, and focus on keeping the edge of the scissors on the lines.  Let your child do the work.  Keep the environment calm and quiet.  It is essential for safety and concentration!

ENJOY this sweet time in the life of your child.  It really goes way too fast!

Mrs. Thomas

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The art room is in need of 16 empty and rinsed 2 liter bottles.  Any day this week would be AMAZING!!!

The 5th grade students will need to each have an empty tissue box by Monday, November 14.  They will be using it to create a 3D house.  If your child is a 5th grader, please have them write their name on the box.  If you have extra boxes, please send those as well.  Some families do not use the tissues in the cardboard boxes thus making it difficult for their child to bring their own box.  If your child is not a 5th grader and you would like to send in a tissue box, please do!!!  Just ask your child to bring it to the ART ROOM!

Thank your for your support!  The Howard family is truly the best!

Mrs. Thomas

The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center is a great resource for additional art experiences for your child(ren)!

For more information go to

www.BBArtCenter.org

Be sure to tell me about your art experience at the BBAC!

Mrs. Thomas

Howard Elementary Art

Deaborn Public Schools

What’s happening in the Howard Art Studio, you ask?  Well here is the low-down!

We completed Pinwheels for Peace with every student in the school!  Wahoo!  It was a beautiful day with beautiful art, singing and speaking!

All grades have either just completed their Vincent VanGogh Unit or will be completing it in the next two weeks as we have taken a temporary breather to get some decorations made for Halloween!  Our Hallways need some “Spooky!”

I just received a family activity from Cranbrook Art Museum that you may want to check out if you are into the Halloween thing!  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gorey-family-day-tickets-28198441297

5th grade students should begin saving tissue boxes for the Architecutre unit we will begin after VanGogh and Halloween!

Have a super duper week!

Mrs. Thomas

THE CHIHULY – style sculpture that grades 1-5 have contributed to is in the process of completion.  It is approximately 15 hours of my tying skills away from being presented!!!!  It will hang in the windows above the front doors to our school.

Kindergarten art students are in the middle of making their Alphabet Artist Book!  Parents, look for this keepsake to come home with your child by the first week in June!

First graders just finished an interdisciplinary art lesson between art and social studies.  They learned about absolute location in cooperation with architecture in art!  These masterpieces will be hung after spring break.

2nd graders are working on their architecture lesson by creating a cityscape collage.

3rd graders just completed snowman perspective and value paintings, Birds and Birch Trees Collage, and have begun their city scapes – a study in color mixing to create value.

3/4 split class is wrapping up their fairy/troll/gnome/smurf houses.

4th grades are in the midst of their Dream House architecture lesson.  These past 2 weeks were spent on creating the house and adding atmospheric perspective through application of their knowledge of gradual value scale creation.

4/5 split just completed their clay rattles, a group slat book based on the choreo poems they wrote on our DIA field and their bird sculptures and masks.

5th grades have completed their paper mache’ birds, are taking the Elements of Art post test, and beginning their 3D house sculpture (this is what they needed a tissue box for!).

Most students have been learning about perspective through the subject of snowmen!  We haven’t had much snow this year so we have brought in our own!  If you visit Howard, you will see snowmen from the perspective of a worm, a bird and eye-to-eye!

Students in grades 1-5 have created birds!

1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th grades have created 3D birds from clay and paper mache’.

3rd grade is creating 2D cardinals and blue jays with colored pencils and printed birch tree collages.  These show the element of space.  Birds and trees that are close to us are large and bold in color, while the one that are farther are smaller and showing less details.

The 4/5 PBL class went on a field trip to the DIA.  We are working on turning our Noah’s Ark: Genesis inspired group choreo poems into Japanese Slat Books.  The students also created clay rattles to go along with the poem.  We hope to present our creations to the entire school in the near future!

Be sure to check out the student displays in the hallways!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week the 2nd grade created 3D turkeys!  Please enjoy these displayed for your holiday festivities!

Some first grade and kindergarten classes created a variation on a textured turkey!  Please enjoy!

All other students worked on a piece for our Chihuly Installation!

Enjoy your much deserved time off!

Mrs. Thomas