Happy September!!!
September 30 Early Dismissal Day!
With seeing 1st-5th graders once a week, the Art room is still getting organized and projects started. Art Adventures will begin in October for 4th and 5th grade students. Art Adventures for 3rd grade students will begin in November in order for 3rd graders and myself to get settled into our Prairieview 3rd grade routine!! Permission slips will be coming soon!!!!
Mystery Artist Clues for August/September: Last Week!
1. He was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, IL. before moving to Marceline, Missouri a few years later. He was the 4th of 5 children.
2. After Deciding to become an artist, he struggled with various art related jobs until he took a job at a Slide Company making animated commercials. Although he didn't stay with this job long, it opened his eyes to the world of animation.
3. His first animated cartoon was completed on November 18, 1928, titled Steamboat Willie. This animation launched his career and mad a certain cartoon character famous.
4. While entertaining his daughters on a Sunday afternoon, he wondered why no one had invented a safe and clean place that kids and their parents could enjoy themselves at the same time. His idea came to life and opened in 1955 in California.
1st Grade: Wild Things
We will learn about author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak. We will discuss the role of an illustrator and begin using basic shapes to create our own wild things with oil pastels.
2nd Grade: Sunday Afternoon in the Park
We have begun exploring landscapes while discussing the pointillist art by George Seurat. You may hear your student sing, 'George Seurat paints with dot, dot, dots!' Students are allowed to interupt me whenever I say his name with this song--a way to help them remember our new artist and his work!
3rd Grade: Kaleidoscopes
We have began studying radial design and began creating a kaleidoscope design. We are discussing pattern, repetition, and colors. They are looking good!
4th Grade: Picasso Portraits
We have begun discussing the artist Pablo Picasso to begin our next project. We are learning about the artist and his many styles of art including Cubism. We are currently drawing and will soon begin using complementary colors to create our own cubist portraits.
5th Grade: Grant Wood Parodies
Students have begun learning about American Gothic by Grant Wood. Students will continue sketching and planning their own American Gothic Parody. We will begin adding color and working in a mixed media or crayon, markers, colored pencils, and oil pastels.
