Wednesday, November 25th, Thanksgiving Break Begins-No School
Thursday, November 26th- HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
November 30-December 4th - CONFERENCE WEEK
Congratulations Karina Kling of Miss Trefonas's 5th Grade Class for winning 1st place for her grade in the Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors of Northern Illinois! Karina has earned some wonderful prizes for herself and our school! Way to go Karina!!!!
1st Grade- Monet Bridges: We will begun learning about Impressionist Artist, Claude Monet. Students will begin building their own bridges based on Claude Monets ever popular Japanese footbridge.
2nd Grade- Prehistoric Rock Art and Legs of Degas: We will be finishing a unit on Prehistoric Rock Art (cave drawings). Students will create their rock art by taping it to the bottom of the tables with the lights low and laying on the floor to create a cave-like atmosphere!
3rd Grade- Wright Mansions: We will begin learning about architecture and local artist Frank Lloyd Wright!
4th Grade- M.C. Escher Hands: We will be focusing on sketching our hands as realistically as we can. We will consider lines, shapes, forms, and spacing.
5th Grade-Pop Art Painting: We will use the works of Andy Warhol and other Pop Artists to learn about color and the color wheel. Students will be picking their Pop Art subject matter and sketching it on canvas board. We began with primary colors and now are moving on to Secondary and Complementary colors!
Art Folder
We will be temporarily stopping Art Folder Assignments following Art Folder #8. We will begin Art Folder #9 at the beginning of Trimester #2.
Art Folder #9 (beginning the week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4th)
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramicist whose work had a major influence on 20th Century art. During his melancholy "Blue Period" in the early 1900s, Picasso used mostly blue tones in his paintings that showed the poor and downtrodden.
If you had to pick just one color for your paintings, what color would it be? What kind of pictures would you paint?
