Kindergarteners are continuing to work on their Art Alphabet Books.  Pages for “A”, “H”, “L”, “T” will be created in the next couple of weeks.

Please look in the Main Hall for student masterpieces as influenced by Impressionist Painter Vincent VanGogh, Monet and Seurat.

All grade levels will begin the Architecture Unit.  We will look at architecture of many styles and what the job of an architect is.

Kindergarten – Collage House

1st grade – printmaking

2nd grade – drawing, painting, ink.

3rd grade – Cityscape.  Perspective skyscrapers reinforcing math concepts through application.  Color mixing value – tints and shades.

4th grade – dream houses.  Reinforcing math concepts through application.  Colored Pencil

5th grade – 3D house.  Reinforcing math concepts through application.  Kleenex and other small boxes.  Crayon resist.  Collage.  Unity and contrast.

Of special interest – The water bottle donations!  Thank you to all who have contributed!  Some classes will begin the Chihuly study school-wide this week.  This will be an installation that most students will contribute to as they complete their current art units.

Kindergartners are creating a page for their Art Alphabet Book that will go home at the end of the school year.  We are reading a book about manners called The Monster’s Monster.  We are following up with “M” is for Making a Monster.  Students will be drawing, cutting and gluing circles and rectangles together to create a monster collage.  They will add details with black crayons.

1st graders are working on 3D monsters.  Learning to tear, bend, cut and glue papers together to create a 3D monster.

2nd graders are using a paper pattern, scissors, and glue to form a sphere.  They will then use more paper to create a cylinder for a stem, paper bending and curling techniques for leaves and vines to create a pumpkin from the sphere.  If students have time and desire they will use paper to cut and glue jack-o-lantern features onto their pumpkin.

3rd graders are creating “Witch Feet”.  We are connecting to language arts through the use of homophones and tongue twister.  “Which witch feet would you wish to wash?”  This is a 2D collage and pattern lesson.

4th graders are using a paper pattern, scissors, and glue to form a large sphere.  They will then use more paper to create a cylinder for a stem, paper bending and curling techniques for leaves and vines to create a pumpkin from the sphere.  If students have time and desire they will use paper to cut and glue jack-o-lantern features onto their pumpkin.

5th graders are completing the follow-up writing reflection for the group 3D Witch project and getting back to the completion of their VanGogh Impressionist Sunflower Still Life in tempera.

Next week we will all be finalizing our VanGogh lessons.  Look around the school for our displays.

We will also begin our Dale Chihuly “Glass Installation” for the foyer.  We are in need of empty plastic water bottles!

All students, K-5, will be learning about and creating a work of art inspired by the sunflowers of Impressionist Artist, Vincent VanGogh.

Kindergarten one day painting of a sunflower.

1st grade –  3-4 art classes of painting a sunflower still life with focus on brush strokes.

2nd grade – 3-4 art classes of creating a sunflower relief sculpture.

3rd grade – 3 art classes of creating a sunflower still life using glue and chalk pastels.

4th grade – 6 art classes of creating a 3D sunflower using various paper bending techniques.

5th grade – 6 art classes of painting a sunflower still life in the Impressionist Style.

The students have been working on Pinwheels for Peace for the upcoming Peace Assembly on Monday, September 25 at 2:45 by the Peace Pole.

All art students are learning about Leonardo DaVinci and how to “be the Mona Lisa”.  You may want to ask your student what is so special about Mona Lisa’s eyes and to show you how to “be the Mona Lisa”!

Our first major study in art this year will be of Vincent VanGogh!  Every grade will create a sunflower.  Parents, it would be fabulous to collect your child’s annual sunflower projects to see their growth!  Great to put up at their graduation party!

Things to ask your child about Vincent Van Gogh:

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

What does he like to paint?

What are you making in art?

This fall we will be recognizing the International Day of Peace by making the Pin Wheels for Peace (1st through 5th grades).  Kindergarten will be creating a peace sign.  We will have a Peace Assembly on Monday, September 22, 2014.

An art studio is a place where people go to create art.  A shared studio (more than one artist using the space) is a space for instruction, creation, collaboration and experimentation in one of the arts.  Welcome to Howard Elementary’s Art Studio blog!