Hello Friends and Family!
Invitations to Mrs. Miller and Ms. Pasco's Google Classrooms have been sent out to all of our students. If you did not receive one at the bottom of this post you will see the Google Classroom codes. Find your class and section and use the corresponding code to enter the class!

Activities for K-6 were added to your Google Classroom. Please read the instructions and click on any images, slides and/or videos that will help you with the activities! We look forward to seeing all your drawings! We miss seeing you and the amazing art you create!

Office Hours:
Also, we will be holding "Office Hours" on Google Meets! On Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-3pm you can click on this link:
https://meet.google.com/nzn-whzb-psn
Here you can join to ask us any questions about the assignments or show us what you have been working on!

We miss you all! Be well! 💙❤️

Mrs. Miller
ART K-6
Google Classroom Codes:
K-Somers - uwezniw
K-Swartz - tsn7h24
K-Capone - ovqkf7u
1-Bridy - igcrohd
1-Bisco - e64kpoe
1-Piatt - x6tupst
2-Wiscount - mebeaq3
2-Dinnich - w7e2ify
2-Witt - emq5v7z
2-Moyer - knsobdg
3-Shadle - fdksqrc
3-Adams - 5ze62sk
3-Smith - zbvjcme
4-Laudeman - zhshdb3
4-Reinoehl - dgmmfeb
4-McCabe - gxxnz6d
5-Houser - hhmlj3v
5-Fey - ynxpvrn
5-Walsh - sqtemdv
6-Ney - uiuw3kz
6-Yablonsky - p754ukt
6-Ackell - rbphxr3

In the Art Room - November 18th - 22nd

Kindergarten
Kindergarten students continue their Unit on Shapes by creating shape dragons to protect the castles that they have just finished! We mix yellow and blue together  to make green paint and use bubble wrap to print green dots on green paper to create dragon skin! Then, we will use our dragon skin paper to cut out shapes to make our dragons! 

1st Grade

First graders continue making houses and buildings, designing them just like an architect! We made our own "blueprints" by stamping white paint lines using cereal box cardboard strips. We also printed black lines on white paper and stamped out another house. We colored that one with colored pencils and used chalk pastels for the sky and grass! This week we paint a colorful village with a watercolor and neon oil pastel resist technique and move onto cityscapes at night!

2nd grade

Egyptian landscapes and finishing up this week! Pyramids and camels have been cut out (wow! We sure had a scissor skill workout this week while we cut out our camels! ) and glued down to our beautiful dessert landscape. We are now going back to France to take a look at the work of the artist, Henri Rousseau and his fantastic jungles! Roar!

3rd grade

Kusama pumpkins are mostly finished! We have been working so hard on them! We are taking a short break from the dot craziness for those extra careful artists to look at the Rose Windows from the Notre Dame Cathedral. We are thankful that they are still safe and intact after the fire that raged through the cathedral in April of this year! We will be using diffusing art paper to make a radial design that will then be painted with watercolors.  

4th grade
Printmaking our cityscapes continues! Students finished their watercolor backgrounds and are now designing their own cities. This week city drawings will be transferred to a piece of styrofoam that will be used to learn the printmaking process. Foam cities will be inked and printed onto their sky section of their watercolor paper. We will fold the paper in half so the city then transferred to the water part for the reflection! Students will also be introduced to the artist James Rizzi and see how he transforms cityscapes into cities that are alive! 

5th grade

Fifth graders were introduced to the art of Roy Lichtenstein this past week. We observed how he looked at the practical art and comic book art around him and raised it to the realm of High Art. We learned about Ben-Day Dots and why he used dots in his own work. We will be drawing comic book versions of ourselves focusing on what our facial features look like when we show different emotions! 

6th grade

African Animal portraits are coming to an end! Those students that are still not done will have time to work on it in the future, but it is time to move onto a new lesson! Students will be looking at the work of folk artist Heather Galler. She paints beautifully designed works of art using bold shapes and designs that are both inviting and unique! We are using bingo daubers filled with India ink to draw our designs! Neon oil pastels and watercolors will be used to paint these cheerful compositions. These works of art will be entered in the Points of Light Mini Mural project that North Schuylkill and the Walk in Art Center in Schuylkill Haven are working on this year! More information to come! 

In the Art Room: October 29 - November 1

Kindergarten
Kindergarten EYES are done and will be hanging in the hallways shortly to watch at the Halloween costumes walk by! We are finishing up our flower paintings and adding finishing touches with lines and patterns. Meanwhile, we read the book "The Very Last Castle" to help introduce our next set of lesson on castles, kings, queens and dragons! Students began drawing their castles using what they know about lines to make shapes like squares, rectangles, circles and triangles and we even practiced the most difficult castle line! 

1st Grade

Our colorful multi-sized craft sticks have been glued down into all  sorts of house sizes and styles! What imaginative architects we have in 1st grade! We just finished adding details such as doors, windows and chimneys with metallic color pencils! This week we are ready to move onto our next lesson!

2nd grade

Our Sky Color skies have been painted and this week we worked on painting papers for our Egyptian desert land. We used the leftover brown paint from our cave animals; added white and yellow and a bit of red to make it desert color and painted a full paper using the back of our brush to scratch in some texture. In the next few classes we will be ripping up our painted paper into sections to glue down for our land and adding pyramids and camels to finish off our Egyptian landscapes! 

3rd grade

We are going dot crazy! Third grade has really been impressing me this week with their focus and attention to detail as they add their MANY dots to the Yayoi Kusama inspired pumpkins we have drawn. This week we work on stems (with even more dots) and backgrounds.  

4th grade
Students finished their watercolor backgrounds and are now designing their own cities. This week city drawings will be transferred to a piece of styrofoam that will be used to learn the printmaking process. Foam cities will be inked and printed onto their sky section of their watercolor paper. We will fold the paper in half so the city then transferred to the water part for the reflection! Students will also be introduced to the artist James Rizzi and see how he transforms cityscapes into cities that are alive! 

5th grade

Fifth graders have cut out a collection of bottles in different sizes and shapes. We will then create an interesting arrangement of the bottles and add shading to them with colored pencil, pencil and vine charcoal. Students will learn how to add a cast shadow onto their table surface before gluing everything down.

6th grade

As our animal portraits are coming together we took a class time last week to learn about the Kente Cloth designs from Ghana. We are using the designs from Kente Cloth to create patterns in the background of our animal portraits. After the animals have all been glued together more designs will be added to them before we can complete this multi-media artwork!

In the Art Room - October 15 - 18

Kindergarten
This week Kindergarten students will be revisiting their coffee filter "dots" that we made the very first days of art. We will be turning them into the iris of a large colorful eye! Students will be practicing their scissor skills by cutting out long eyelashes to make their eyes look wide open! Additionally, kinders have started turning their lines into shapes to make flower drawings that they are painting with the primary colors as well as mixing them together to make orange and purple! 

1st Grade

Students have been looking at the work of Beverly Buchanan, an African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video and land art. She is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art. First graders will be making their own color shacks out of different sized craft sticks that they have just finished painting with bright colors and patterns. 

2nd grade

Cave art comes to an end with an exciting hand print signature! Students "signed" their work just like the cave artists by placing their hand on their "wall" and getting it sprayed with paint leaving their hand print outline. We now move onto Egypt and hav been looking at Egyptian landscapes that include beautiful colored skies, desserts, pyramids, and camels! 2nd graders were read the story Sky Color by Peter Reynolds. Students learned that the sky can be many different colors besides blue. 

3rd grade

Fish are now finished and students began learning about the artist Yayoi Kusama. 
Kusama is a fascinating artist who, in her 90s, is still making art today and works with the themes of infinity and repetition. She uses dots on many different types of surfaces. Students were read a book about Yayoi Kusama's life and work. Kusama's most popular works of art depicts the pumpkin filled with dots. Students began to draw a Kusama-esque pumpkin and will fill it with different sized dots to show light and dark. Students will also learn about other cultures in different parts of the world that use dots as an important part of their art making. 

4th grade
Landscapes are wrapping up and are just lovely, even the mini practice landscapes have turned into lovely works of art. Students are now looking at other types of "scapes" including cityscapes, specifically cityscapes that are reflected onto a body of water. Students will paint a sky and water with liquid watercolors and then draw their own city scape onto a piece of foam that will be used as a printmaking "plate" to print onto their sky and reflect onto the water. 

5th grade

Students continue exploring how to create values of lights and darks within an artwork. Their jellyfish artworks used value to create an underwater ocean environment that goes from light to dark to show depth. Fifth graders will now learn how to make a still life and shade their still live objects to look three-dimensional. Most students have just started cutting out their perfectly symmetrical bottles, vases, and cups by folding a piece of paper in half, drawing one side of the object and then cutting it out from the folded paper. Students looked at still life paints by Cezanne.

6th grade

Our African animal portrait projects are making progress. Most students have successfully cut out all their animal portrait parts and have begun painting the individual shapes. The shapes will then be glued together and designs with metallic and black Sharpies will be added. African patterns will be added to their brightly painted sunset/sunrise skies before the animal head is glued down. Students have also been working on finishing their sketchbook covers and putting together their sketchbooks for future projects. 

In the Art Room – September 23 - 27th

September 23 - 27th, 2019

*NEW* Meet me on Instagram @mrsmillersartroom where I will be posting photos of works-in-progress of our students' artworks! You can also check them out on the gray sidebar to the right on this Blog! Have a great week!

Kindergarten

Most of the Kindergarten students have finished their line paintings with the primary colors (and green). They are just beautiful! We have been looking at a colorful sculpture by Michael Placzek. We observed that his sculpture is an artwork we can walk around. Students are now making their own line sculptures with strips of paper and glue! So fun! 

1st Grade

Our tissue paper printed papers are finished and oh so gorgeous! We're saving the paper squares that we used for something else later. We are now practicing our Miro-esque drawing on a dry erase board and then we'll draw it onto our patterned paper. Neon oil pastels will be used to color in some of the shapes we make. 

2nd grade

Cave art continues! Chalk pastels have been used to add areas of color to our cave animals. We are going to draw a whole herd of animals on bigger paper that we have wrinkled up to make look like a cave wall. We will "sign" our papers with our handprints, just like the cave artists when we're all done. 

3rd grade

Fish are almost done! Eyes and details are being added. Students will be working on a background for their fish to swim in! 

4th grade
Landscapes are being painted with many different landscape colors (greens, oranges, tans and yellows). We are looking at how color has many properties including brightness... the property that gets turned down as objects get further away from us. 

5th grade

The Trouble with Jellyfish is a contemporary art exhibit by Mark Dion that showcases how large blooms or swarms of jellyfish in the ocean indicate that the ocean waters are unhealthy. The jellyfish are making it unhealthy for the fish to live. Students have been painting an underwater value painting as they get ready to draw their swarms of jellyfish.  

6th grade

Graffiti art is being hung up on our "brick" wall as students complete them. We are working on an African sunset painting. We will be creating a mixed media artwork of an African animal portrait to place on our sunset painting. The Animal portrait will be constructed by cutting out shapes to create a stylized or simple animal head with designs drawn on with Metallic Sharpies or painted on with Metallic paint. 

September 9th - 13th, 2019

*NEW* Meet me on Instagram @mrsmillersartroom where I will be posting photos of works-in-progress of our students' artworks! You can also check them out on the gray sidebar to the right on this Blog! Have a great week!

Kindergarten

Our "Dots" have all been sprayed with water and we heard lots of "Ooos and Aaaaahhss" as we watched the colors blending with one another. Our "Dots" are going to be set aside for a bit and will come back again very soon! We are now learning about all types of lines; laying down lines (horizontal), standing up lines (vertical), along with dotted lines, zigzag lines and so many more. We are finishing our line paintings and will be using the primary colors to fill in the empty spaces. 

1st Grade

This week we finish up our Jasper Johns inspired name artworks. Students will also be introduced to the work on Joan Miro. We will observe how Miro's artwork changes as becomes more simplified and full of shapes and symbols as he matures and ages, developing his own artistic style. We looked at an artwork he made when he was 14 and one that he painted when he was 75 yrs old! Quite different! Students then began looking closer at Miro's later works of art and began drawing like Miro while other students finished up their Jasper Johns name artworks. We will be using tissue paper and water to make our Miro-esque backgrounds this week.

2nd grade

We have arrived at the prehistoric caves in Lascaux, France! We are learning that throughout time and across cultures people have used art to communicate, even the early cave men and women. THIS WEEK... we learned how the primary colors mix to make brown by mixing up our very own brown cave paint. Then, We traced our cave drawings with a black oil pastel and painted our cave animals with our brown paint! 

3rd grade

Now that our textured Warm & Cool color painted papers have dried we are ready to turn them into FISH! We will be looking at the work of contemporary artist Karla Gerard, specifically an artwork that features fish! Students will be cutting out a large fish shape from white paper, and using their painted papers, draw and cut out fish heads and tails. 

4th grade
Students continue to look at how artists have chose to paint the LANDSCAPE as their subject matter. We will look at both traditional and nontraditional examples. Students continue to work on their watercolor landscape studies. We will then look closer at Grant Wood's landscape farm paintings and how he created the illusion of depth in his paintings. We will begin to draw out our own much larger landscapes before we paint them!

5th grade

Last week we began using the primary colors to paint the spaces created after drawing out their abstract name designs. Students also used the primary colors to mix and paint with secondary colors to finish their first 5th grade works of art! THIS WEEK... we start a value painting that serve as the background for our next mixed-media work of art. 

6th grade

Students continue working on their Graffiti names and will be adding them to our 6th grade Graffiti "wall". Pictures to come! Students who finish early will be working on a sneak preview activity for our next project. 

September 3rd - 6th, 2019

Kindergarten

This week Kindergarten students will finish coloring in their "Dot" and then they will watch their colors blend together after it gets sprayed with water! Next, Kinders will begin their unit on Line, which is introduced with the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman. We will learn about laying down lines (horizontal), standing up lines (vertical), along with dotted lines, zigzag lines and so many more. We will practice drawing and painting all these in class!

1st Grade

Students looked at the work of Jasper Johns and noticed how he like to use the Alphabet and numbers in his works of art. Students were given a piece of paper folded into 16 spaces. Student used the letters of their name to fill in each space. We then traced the letters with black oil pastels. THIS WEEK... we will add lines with the rainbow of oil pastels and will use paint to add color to each of the 16 spaces, first with the primary colors, and then we will mix colors to make the secondary colors.

2nd grade

We travel to the prehistoric caves in Lascaux, France! We are learning that throughout time and across cultures people have used art to communicate, even the early cave men and women. We will learn how the caves in Lascaux, France were discovered by a couple of teenagers and we will then draw our own cave animal! 

3rd grade

This week we will be creating painted papers for a future art project that is yet to be revealed! Students will be using textured sponge rollers to create warm color (red, orange, and yellow) and cool color (blue, purple, and green) painted papers. We are focusing on creating papers full of visual texture by using the sponge rollers to mix colors. 

4th grade

Many artist have used the LANDSCAPE as the subject matter of their paintings. This week students will look at how some artists have used the landscape in their works of art. The artists we will be looking at include Grant Wood, Monet, Wayne Thiebaud, and Courtney Cerruti. Each artist paints the Landscape in their own style but ALL include the 3 main parts; the foreground, middle ground and background. We will even take advantage of our great outside view and pick out the parts of landscape from just outside of the art room. Students will use watercolors to create two landscape experiments before we begin a larger project! 

5th grade

Students used their names to create an abstract name drawing after breaking up their 9x12 paper into 3 sections with 2 simple wavy lines. Students used their first and last name to fill-in the sections making sure the letter of their names touched the top of the paper and line. Sharpie markers were used to trace their names and separating lines, focusing on creating a variety of line widths. THIS WEEK... students will use the primary paints to color in the spaces created from the letters of their name. They will use the primary colors to also make the secondary colors. 

6th grade

Students will be making a graffiti style name after looking many examples of artists who started out as graffiti artists. We learned a little about the artists Banksy, Keith Haring and Seen. We learned that graffiti is illegal but some artists became popular because of their start as a graffiti artists. Students will be making graffiti versions of their name and putting them on a "brick" wall when completed. THIS WEEK... we continue drawing our graffiti names and will be adding outlines and shadows with a Sharpie and neon colored pencils to really make them POP!