Friday, December 14, 2007

3rd Grade Art Club!

Due to great interest in Art Club by our third grade students, I will start the new year with another third grade Art Club activity! This December's Art Club activity for 3rd grade is small-scale sculpture made of salt dough. Students made creations using handprints, cookie cutters, and carving tools. Next week, students will complete their creations by painting them. Salt dough is a fun inexpensive activity. To make your own salt dough,see the recipe below!

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, and water. Stir with a spoon until it get thick, then get your hands in there! If its too sticky, add flour. If its too dry add water. Roll it out and enjoy. Dough usually will keep for 5 days. Air-drying takes 2-3 days or bake at 300

Friday, December 7, 2007

December Mystery Artist Clues

1. Born on December 12, 1863, this Norwegian artist faced many losses throughout his life. His mother died when he was 5. His closest sister died when he was 14. His father died when this artist was 26 and his younger brother died when he was 32.

2. Using art to help him express his feelings, this Modern Expressionist used lines, colors, shapes, and forms to show his innermost feelings of sadness, lonliness, anger, and suffering. Rather than painting what he saw in the world, he painted how the world made him feel.

3. On August 22, 2004, two of this artist's works were stolen from an art museum in Norway. On of the works was one of his most famous pieces called The Scream.

Friday, November 30, 2007

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

I am pleased to announce that we have three winners of the Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Authority of Northern Illinois' s water conservation poster contest. This year's theme for the poster contest was 'Go with the Flow...Wasting Water is a NO!!!' The poster contest is open to students who are residents of De Kalb, Du Page, Kane or Kendall Counties. Our three winners are all third graders. These students won 1st, 2nd and honorable mention for their grade level.

Congratulations to: 1st place Jessica Fortin Mr. Trinco's class
2nd place Adam Zlotnicki Mrs. Spakausky's class
Honorable mention Madison Smith Mrs. Carlstrom's Class

Congratulations to three special third graders for a job well done!

Friday, November 16, 2007

November Mystery Artist BONUS CLUES

1. If you had Miss Smeltzer for Art in Second Grade, we studied and created a project based on this artist and his ballerina dancers!
2. An artwork displayed in class is called: Dancers Practicing at the Bar, 1876-1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

4th Grade Art Club

***Stop by the Art Room and pick up your projects!!!****

Friday, November 2, 2007

November Mystery Artist Clues


  1. Born in Paris, France on July 19, 1834, he was the son of a wealthy banker.

  2. This French Impressionist artist was known as the master of creating the human figure in motion.

  3. Later in life his eyesight began to fail, thus forcing this artist to create in the medium of sculpture.

  4. In second grade at Elizabeth Ide School, we studied this artist works of ballerinas and movement

Monday, October 22, 2007

*****Date Changes****

NOVEMBER ART CLUB WILL MEET ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7TH, TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13TH, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14TH!!!
My apologies for the error!

Friday, October 19, 2007

November Art Club for 4th Grade!

Dear Parents and 4th Grade students,
This year I am pleased to announce that Prairieview Elementary School will have an Art Club. November’s activities will be available to 4th grade students only. Our meeting times this month will be Wednesday November 7th, Tuesday November 13th, and Wednesday November 14th. However, based on the number of participants, additional days may be added.
The 4th grade activity will be Self Portrait Collages. Students will have the opportunity to work with paints, glue, photographs, paste, recyclable materials, and various art tools. Students that would like to participate will need to pay a $5.00 lab fee and bring in a photograph of him/her. The lab fee will cover the costs of materials students will be using during the Art Club activity. The photograph will be photocopied for their project and returned. The photograph can be any photo of your choosing: recent or past, school or family, etc.
All Art Club activities will be at Prairieview School starting at 2:30p.m. and will end at 3:45p.m. STUDENTS ARE TO BE PICKED UP PROMPTLY AT 3:45p.m. If you are interested in participating in this after school activity, you will need to fill out the bottom of this form, enclose a photograph, and return it to Miss Smeltzer by 11/02/2007. After all the permission slips have been received, a schedule will be created and delivered to remind students of our meeting times.
If you need to car pool with someone, please have your parent name the person(s) at the bottom of the permission slip (please no more than 2 others). I look forward to having a lot of fun with you this year.
Miss Smeltzer
Art Teacher, (tsmeltze@ccsd66.org)
________________________________________________________________________
My son/daughter, _____________________________________, has my
permission to participate in the Art Club activities for November 2006.

My son/daughter's Classroom Teacher is: Miss Cerney (please circle one)
Mrs. Cushing
Mrs. Cavoto
Mrs. Cirjakovic
Mrs. Strong
Mrs. Sulima

Please check one:

_______ I will arrange to have a ride home for my child.

_______ My child will go to BACC after Art Club.

_______________________________
Parent/Guardian Signature
****Please enclose your child’s $5.00 lab fee and photograph with this permission slip. Checks can be made out to Center Cass School District.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Bonus Mystery Artist Clue!

The tallest building our Mystery Artist ever constructed was H.C Price Tower in Bartlesville Oklahoma (1952-1956).
H.C. Price Tower is a 19-story building which now houses a museum and a
hotel. Standing out like a tall tree in eastern Oklahoma's rolling hills, the
building could also be described as treelike in design, with a "taproot"
supporting a central "trunk" and the floors extending outward like branches.

-The F.L.W Foundation, Taliein West, Scottsdale,Az.

Monday, October 1, 2007

October's Mystery Artist Clues

Mystery Artist Clues

1. Born 1867 in Richland, Wisconsin, this artist was considered on of America's most famous architects.
2. His mother, a school teacher, surrounded his crib with drawings of cathedrals and gave him a set of wooden building blocks
in hopes he would become a great architect.
3. His employer (boss) and friend, Louis Sullivan, loaned this architect the money to build his first house in Oak Park, IL. at the
age of 22.
4. His style of architecture became known as the Prairie style. Prairie style architecture reflected the color, land, and nature of
the Midwest.

Friday, September 14, 2007

PV Art Room Updates!

September Mystery Artist Clues:
1 He was born in the small Italian town of Vinci in 1452.
2 He wrote backwards in his sketchbooks.
3 Not only was he a great artist, but he was also an architect, musician, sculptor, scientist,inventor, and mathematician.

Art Club!!!!
Dear Parents and 5th Grade Students,
The month of October's activities will be available for 5 th grade students only. All fifth grade students are welcome to participate. Our meeting times for this month will be on Wednesday October 3rd , Wednesday October 10th , and Wednesday October 24th . However based on the number of participants, additional days may be added.
The 5th grade activity will be Charcoal Drawing. Students will have the opportunity to work with various types of charcoal and art tools to create a still life and gestured drawings.
Students who would like to participate will need to pay a $5.00 lab fee. The lab fee will cover the costs of materials students will be using during the Art Club activity.
All Art Club activities will be at Prairieview School starting at 2:30p.m. and will end at 3:45p.m. STUDENTS ARE TO BE PICKED UP PROMPTLY AT 3:45p.m. If you are interested in participating in this after school activity, please fill out the permission slip below, enclose the $5.00 lab fee, and return it to Miss Smeltzer by Friday September 28th . After all permission slips have been received, a schedule will be created and delivered to remind you of our meeting times.
If you need to car pool with someone, please have your parent name the person(s) at the bottom of the permission slip (please no more than 2 others). I look forward to having a lot of fun with you.
Miss Smeltzer, Art Teacher
________________________________________________________________________
My son/daughter__________________________________, has my permission to participate in the Art Club activities for October 2007
Please check one:
__________ My child may walk home after Art Club.
__________ I will arrange to have a ride home for my child.
__________ My child will go to BACC after Art Club.
________________________________________
Parent/Guardian Signature
****Please enclose your child’s $5.00 lab fee with this permission slip. Checks should be made out to Center Cass School District.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Welcome Back!!!


We are going to have a great year in Art!!!
!!!trA ni raey taerg a evah ot gniog era eW