Monday, Sept. 5 No School-Labor Day!
Tuesday, Sept. 6 Monday Schedule
4/5th Curriculum Night
Thursday Sept. 9 1/2nd Curriculum Night
Mystery Artist Clues for August/September:
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: Beautiful Oops
Art involves facing challenges with materials, expressing oneself, and problem solving. Students will begin their Art creation by starting with a mistake or Oops. We will read the story, Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg. Student will then get a piece of art paper with a giant smudge of oops paint. Students will have to turn the oops into Art!!
2nd Grade: The Dot
Students began Art by defining and creating a series of dots. We then read the story, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. Students will now turn their dots in to Art!
3rd Grade: Wordle and Kaleidoscopes
To start off Art this year, we are doing a creative class/group project using wordle. com. Using http://www.wordle.net/ each class is creating a 'word cloud' to illustrate their definition of Art. Once this is completed we will begin studying radial design and begin folding paper to create a kaleidoscope design.
4th Grade: Absolutely Awful Alphabet Letters and Picasso Portraits
We began 4th grade Art by reading, The Absolutely Aweful Alphabet by Mordicai Gerstein which was recently featured at the Art Institute of Chicago. Students are using oil pastels to create their own alphabet lettered creatures. Once complete, we will begin discussing the artist Pablo Picasso to begin our next project.
5th Grade: Grant Wood Parodies
Student will answer a small questionaire about American Gothic in order to dig deeper into the exploration of the artwork and artist. Following this activity students will begin learning about American Gothic by Grant Wood. Students will begin sketching and planning their own American Gothic Parody.
