ART SHOWS! Tonight (4/22) & Tomorrow (4/23)

It's finally here! The month of Art Shows!
The show opening for school #4 was postponed from last week. It is tonight from 6-8 pm. 
The opening for the #6 school art show is Thursday April 23, from 6-8. 
The opening for the #5 school art show is Thursday April 30, from 6-8. **There will also be a bake sale to support the 6th grade class trip to the Museum of Modern Art at the #5 school show**

Hope to see you there!!!

3rd Grade Weaving at #6 School

Each year the third grade students get to weave as their 3D art project for the year. As someone who loves fiber arts myself, this project is a lot of fun to teach. The students love it too! This year, students had to come up with a story that they wanted to tell with their weaving. They created a key that indicated which colors they would use to represent the different parts of their story.

Weaving with K/1 21st Century Aftercare

After being back at work for a full marking period, I felt like I could handle teaching at least one day of aftercare. I love working in the aftercare program because it is gives me the chance to work with small groups of students and do art projects that I can't do with my regular large classes. For the remainder of the year I am teaching the Kindergarten/1st grade group at School #4 once a week. I love doing fibers arts, so I thought that we would do some weaving! We do a weaving project with our third graders during the school year, but I had never done it with students this young. The great thing is with aftercare we can try things out and if they don't work, we can move on to something different. Thankfully, the students love to weave! I was so pleasantly surprised at how good the 1st graders were at weaving! Some students had some struggles at first, but after a few tries everyone got the hang of it. After just 2 weeks of weaving (1 hour class sessions) three students were done! Now they are moving on to some more difficult weaving techniques. I'm so excited to see what they come up with next!

Cupcakes and Clay Pots: 2nd grade and Kindergarten at School #4

The 2nd graders at school #4 are just starting their next project: clay cupcakes! To get some inspiration, we looked at the art of painter Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud is well known for his bright and colorful paintings of desserts. Students drew their own cupcakes with bright colors to get some ideas for their clay cupcakes. It just so happened that the day we did this, it was Mrs. Fieldhouse's birthday! So we cut out the cupcakes and put them all together for a class birthday card.

Kindergarten is also working with clay. Students learned about the difference between 2D and 3D works of art. Then they made their own pinch pots using Crayola air-dry clay. This week, students used markers to add decorations to their pots. 

 

Students who finished early drew pictures of their pots.