SURPRISE! Third Grade Uploaded TODAY

I had a chance to get the iPads in my hands today so we went ahead and piloted the program TODAY! Every third grade student currently has their artwork exhibited on www.artsonia.com. You can view this if you go to the website (www.artsonia.com) and enter St. Robert Bellarmine in either the search box at the top OR the school search box. There are 3 St. Robert Bellarmine on the list, but mine does say Omaha, NE next to it. Once you have chosen the school, scroll down to the school gallery and click on the "Spacescapes" exhibit. Here you will be able to see all of the third grader's artwork. Next week, I will be sending slips home with the student's access key so parents can register their students which allow people to comment on the artwork or buy items from the "gift shop". I am so excited that this worked out for students and I can't wait to hopefully get started with more classes!

Exciting News For Third Grade!!

I have began using a website called Artsonia to display my third graders artwork. This website is really great. I put in my rosters and it generates a username for each student (so we don't have to worry about their last names being on the internet). The reason I do the blog is to showcase some student artwork and let parents know what is going on in the room, but unfortunately I don't have time to photograph all 550 pieces of artwork each week. Third grade is my test group. We are going to be using a set of iPads in our classroom in the next few weeks. I will teach them how to properly take their own photographs and upload them to Artsonia. Parents, or anyone for that matter (grandparents, aunts, uncles) will be able to go to the Artsonia website (www.artsonia.com) and search "St. Robert Bellarmine" in the search box. When you click on our school, our "Exhibits" come up and you can find your student's artwork. Right now, there are only the pictures that I already had from third grade, but next Friday every student will have a piece of artwork up. When you click on the picture, there is also a way to buy items with that artwork on it (coffee mugs, t shirts, postcards) and 20% of the  money from those purchases come right back to St. Roberts.

My ultimate goal is to be able to have a classroom set of 8 iPads so every class can upload their photos to Artsonia weekly, or even daily. This would allow each of my 550 students to have a online "exhibit" of their artwork all together.

More will be posted on this subject later, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up!

Fifth Grade Texture Names

Fifth grade worked for a couple weeks on these projects. While they took a little longer then I had hoped, so many of them turned out really great!! Students learned about how to make visual texture using patterns. They were asked to put their name in bubble letters in a grid, and put a different texture in each section. When done correctly, the names appear hidden, but not completely. See if you can see the names in these projects. 

5A

    Mary 

     Lindsey

     Trip

      Kaitlyn

     Claire

      Juliana

5B

     Dan

    Nolan

    Tana

    Karmen

    Grace

    Max

Second Grade Shape Robots

Second grade finally finished up their shape robots this week. We started a new project and learned about Piet Mondrian, but those won't be up until next week. Here are some of the robots from this week.

2A

    Zoe

     Michael

    Eva

    Henry

2B

   Marissa

     Michael

    Katlyn

     Beau

First Grade Owls

First grade has been working on pattern and they drew owls last week! They turned out pretty cute! Here they are.

1A

     Josie

    Ellason

      Connor

    Michael

     Alex

     Grace

     Betsy

1B

    Dylan

   Jackson

Molly

   Cailin

    Carson

    Sofia

   Mary

     Will

Kindergarten Shape Robots

Kindergarten has been learning about shapes. Last week, we colored in these shapes and this week we cut and pasted them to a new paper. They turned out really great!! 

KA

       Libby

      Kathryn

      Kate

     Caroline

     Audrey

      Sam

      Nora

KB

      Izzy

     George

   Connor

    Caroline

      Harper

    Natalie

   Liam

Want to find only your student's projects?

Each post that I write has a "label" on the bottom that basically tags each grade. If you have a student in second grade, you can find a post with that label and click on it. That will bring up all of the posts that are labeled "second grade". This makes it a little easier to find your student's class fast. 

            ^ these are at the bottom of each post. You can see I have clicked on "second grade" already to view those projects. 

You should also be able to comment on the posts. Let me know what you think!!