{"id":130,"date":"2017-03-03T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/?p=130"},"modified":"2017-03-03T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:01:06","slug":"welcome-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/2017\/03\/03\/welcome-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Back!<\/p>\n<p>Well, despite the spring -like weather, I went ahead and hung some of the 1st and 2nd grade Perspective Snowmen in the lower elementary\/art hall way!  They are too cute not to display and our artists&#8217; efforts and accomplishments deserve to be celebrated!  I will, however be taking them down by the end of next week!  I am ready for some colorful spring-like art in our Howard Art Gallery!<\/p>\n<p>1st and 2nd grade students should bring home their Frank Stella style collage relief sculpture!  Hopefully they survive the trip home!  Some of the vocabulary you could ask your little artist about are listed:<br \/>\nAbstract art<br \/>\nFrank Stella<br \/>\nBorder<br \/>\nFrench Curve<br \/>\nOrganic shape<br \/>\nPositive and negative space<br \/>\n3D<\/p>\n<p>3rd, 4th and 5th grade abstract paintings in the style of Wassily Kandinsky will go on display in the Howard Art Gallery beginning next week.<\/p>\n<p>Kindergarten artists just completed &#8220;W&#8221; is for Warm Colors Weaving.  They did a line painting of red orange and yellow (they are beautiful paintings!) and then completed it by weaving red and (optional) yellow yarn as a border.<\/p>\n<p>To check out what artistic and cultural events are coming up in and around Dearborn go to dearbornlibrary.org<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Back! Well, despite the spring -like weather, I went ahead and hung some of the 1st and 2nd grade Perspective Snowmen in the lower elementary\/art hall way! They are too cute not to display and our artists&#8217; efforts and accomplishments deserve to be celebrated! I will, however be taking them down by the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}