Artist of the Month:
The criteria for this award is a student who is conscientious about and passionate about learning and creating in art.

Congratulations to the following Artists of the Month:
K – Brooklyn Lyons
1st – Abigail Awood
2nd – Dalia Dabaja
3rd – Sina Afshari
4th – Minah Aoun
5th – Eleanor Beaty

Mona Lisa Masters of the Month:
The criteria for this award is a student who is conscientious about creating a responsible and respectful art learning environment by imitating Mona Lisa.
Congratulations to:
K – Yasmina Farris
1st – Hussein Fayad
2nd – Sarah Smith
3rd – Emily Montierth
4th – Max Anton
5th – Ariadna Cortes

Hello!
Along with Van Gogh Sun Flowers, Halloween themed art is on display in the main hall/Howard Art Gallery from now until Halloween!
1st grade 3D Monsters
2nd grade Mini Pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns
5th grade GIANT 3D group Witches are flying across the ceiling!

The witches will be raffled (free) to any 5th grade student that would like to take a witch home on Halloween!

Come and visit before they are gone!

1st and 2nd grade VanGogh artworks are hanging in the Howard Gallery. 5th grade should be done early next week and 3rd and 4th grades will be done by the end of next week. Look for 3rd-5th to be on display by the end of the month!

Parents! The 2D Impressionism art works are definitely mat and frame worthy! I hope you will cherish these masterpieces your artists are creating! They are truly beautiful! By 5th grade your child will have mastered the understanding, identifying and creating of an impressionistic style of artwork with it’s visible brush strokes.

Kinder-artists have begun using scissors! We are working on the “A” page of our art book. Then we will move into creating a Monster for “M” and a skeleton for X-ray. It would be great to have your child practicing with scissors at home by cutting on the line of shapes that they draw.

There will be one Artist of the Month and Mona Lisa Master of the Month from each grade level.

Artist of the Month:
The criteria for this award is a student who is conscientious about and passionate about learning and creating in art. The child will receive a certificate, have their picture on the school television for the entire month, and be recognized on the school blog!
These are the Artists of the Month for October:
K – Amelia Kirk
1st – Victor Saad
2nd – Mariam Chami
3rd – Adriana Dwyer
4th – Halie Mattison
5th – Evelyn Tavarez

Mona Lisa Master of the Month:
The criteria for this award is a student who is conscientious about creating a responsible and respectful art learning environment by imitating Mona Lisa. The child will receive a certificate, have their picture on the school television for the entire month, their picture will hang in the hallway outside of the Howard Art Studio and they will be recognized on the school blog!
These are the Mona Lisa Masters of the Month:
K – Nader Saad
1st – Adam Makled
2nd – Lana Hamadi
3rd – Maryam Elkhechen
4th – Leo Wetzel
5th – Daoud Ankouni

All students in grades 1-5 have begun learning and creating as inspired by Vincent Van Gogh!
We are all so excited that the new math curriculum has VanGogh paintings on the covers of the books!

1st and 5th grades are painting Impressionist style still lives of sunflowers.

2nd and 4th grades are creating 3D sunflowers, focusing on the characteristics of a sunflower.

3rd grades are creating a chalk pastel still life of a vase of sunflowers, applying the impressionist style to chalk pastels.

Kindergarten will be painting a sunflower in a few weeks! They have begun their kindergarten Art ABC Book that is an all-year project and will come home in the spring. We started with “F is for Family”.