WELCOME TO TRIMESTER #3!!!
March 2 Prairieview Specials Conferences
March 3 E. Ide Special Conferences
March 4 No School
March 7 No School Happy Casmir Pulaski Day!
March 9 Metra Railroad Safety Poster due to Miss Smeltzer
March 11 Doodle 4 Google contest due to Miss Smeltzer
Doodle 4 Google Logo Contest is a competition where students design the Google logo according to this year's theme, "What I'd like to do someday." The winning doodler will have his or her artwork viewed on google.com homepage, win a college scholarship, and earn computers for his or her school. Information packets are in the art room or to save a tree, check out the details at: www.google.com/doodle4google
Mystery Artist for February:
1. He was born in New York City in 1894. He received his first assignments as an illustrator when he was a teenager.
2. The cover of The Saturday Evening Post was his showcase for over forty year, giving him an audience larger than that of any other artist in history.
3. He also painted a great number of pictures for story illustrations, advertising campaigns, posters, calendars, and books.
4. His pictures chronicled, (a record of events), the introduction of radio and television, automobile and airplane travel, and even flights to the moon.
Displayed in Classroom are: School Days and Nothing Up His Sleeve.
1st Grade: Action Jackson Abstract Expressionist PaintingsFirst graders are learning about the artist, Jackson Pollock and his Abstract Expressionist style. We will begin painting with string and other found objects.
2nd Grade: Kandinsky Colors
Students will be learning about the artist, Wassily Kandinsky and his Pure Abstract style. Students will learn how his Abstract style helped him mix our senses with colors. We will begin by painting geometric shapes.
3rd Grade: Matisse Goldfish
We will begin learning about the artist Henri Matisse. We will focus on his painting, Goldfish, and begin creating our own interpretation of Goldfish.
4th Grade: Guatemalan Weaving
We will begin discussing the process of weaving. Student will create their own cardboard loom weavings. This week begins warping!
5th Grade: Fantasy Portraits
We will continue sketching our own self-portraits. Once we have completed the basics of our portraits we will begin discussing Surrealism and how to illustrate it on their own self-portraits.
