January Fun!

Happy New Year! We have started the new year with lots of new learning opportunities.
 Here is what we are up to...

Kindergarten- Snowmen at Night-  We read the book about what our snowmen do at night and then created our own clay snowmen with added real stick details for the arms.
Fancy Mittens (We read the book The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen) and created our own mitten design in oil pastel.
Printmaking lesson (We learned about the artist Jim Dine) and started our printmaking exploration with mono-prints and will later add styrofoam heart prints to our work.

First Grade- Snowmen Is making snowflake designs in oil pastel and adding watercolor spray paint to make a resist style background.  Next we will be making a snowman from paper scraps.

Second Grade- -Winter Tree Silhouette Paintings with nocturnal animals. Students learned how to mix tints of a paint color and used these to paint a moon lit sky.  Next, they added their own winter tree and hid a little night animal friend.  We read the books Owl Moon and Night Animals.
Mandala design- Students are learning about various cultures who make mandalas from sand and are working to better understand symmetry in design.  They will be creating their own meaningful mandalas after a little more group exploration.

Third Grade-  Animation Unit- Students used the iPads and the Crayola Animation Studio to design and animate a short clip with their characters.
Designer Snow (Repousse metal working)- Students are in the process of designing and working with thin sheets of metal to create a symmetrical snowflake using the repousse metal tooling processes.

Fourth Grade- Optical Illusion Designs- The students have been working hard on learning a variety of optical illusions and adding them to their cube designs.  Students have even taken on inventing their own illusions now that they understand how this art form plays tricks on the eye.

Fifth Grade- Careers in art computer design unit- Student have taken on 3 different roles during this project.  First they worked as 5th graders to research various jobs in the field of art.  Next, they became entrepreneurs and made their own company that would be hiring for one of their researched art jobs.  Finally, they acted as graphic designers to create a logo for their company using the Bamboo drawing tablets and the online art program SumoPaint.  To pull all of these parts together they designed a one page Want Ad hiring for their corporations needs.