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!
