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.
