New Year, New Things Happening in the Art Room

Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year! I am so excited to be back for another great year at St. Roberts! There are a few changes in the art room this year so I just wanted to briefly touch on them.

GRADING! Grades 4-8 will have a slightly different grading process this year. Instead of ONLY being graded on behavior, students will also be graded on each art project. BE NOT AFRAID. Grades will be based on a list of requirements, not based on talent. As long as students follow directions and complete their project on time, they will do fine.

FIRST FIVE. Students in grades 2-4 will be participating in an opening activity each day called First Five. When they come into the art room, there will be an activity on the smart board for students to quietly complete. It could be anything from writing down thoughts on a piece of artwork to a quick drawing of something. Before moving on to our lesson or project work time, we will discuss the first five as a class.

ARTSONIA. Artsonia.com is a website where students from all over the world create online art galleries. Last year, my third grade students (now fourth grade), used artsonia to upload four or five pieces of artwork.Their families could go online and see their artwork and even had the chance to purchase merchandise that featured their student's artwork. This year, ALL students K-8 have been designated an artsonia account. Every project completed in class will be uploaded to artsonia. Keep an eye out!

BLOG. I will still update the blog as regularly as possible, but I will not be uploading images of student artwork. Because we have artsonia, I will direct your attention to student artwork often via that site.

And last but DEFINITELY not least,

IPADS!! The art room has been given 8 iPads from Home and School. We will be using the iPads for art history and artist research, group projects, art app exploration, and artsonia uploads. I am so excited to be able to use these with all grade levels!

Second Grade

Second grade has been learning the difference between warm and cool colors over the past couple of weeks. They drew a picture of a spaceship then folded it in half so it would be divided into two sections. One section is colored in with warm colors, and one section is colored in with cool colors.

Here are some of the great pictures that are already finished:

2A

   Michael L.

    Michael M.

    Nolan

     Zach

2B

     Lauren

  Emma

   Marissa

  Jacob 

Second Grade Landscapes

Second grade has been doing a great job including all four parts of their landscapes! See if your second grader can identify the parts in these pictures!

2A

    Declan

      Zach

      Jack

     Avary

2B

     Delani

      Maggie

      Zoe

       Teddy

Self Portraits Galore!!

Eventually, all classes K-5 will complete a self-portrait. This week K-2 finished theirs. They all turned out pretty good, and EVERYONE improved from their "pre-instruction" drawing of their face. Here are some examples from KA, KB, 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B.

KA

      Emily

     Paxton

      Maggie

       Maura

KB

    Mia

       Sophie

      Natalie

     Anna

1A

     Carson

      Dylan

      Sami

     Ryan

1B 

     Emma

      Charlie

     Avery

      Claire

2A

      Brian

     Katie

      Lawson

      Michael

2B

      Michael

      Hannah

     Riley

     Jacob

Art Room Update 10/10

There won't be many pictures this week because almost every class is in the middle of a project. Here is what students have been working on this week:

Kindergarten just started doing self portraits. They will finish these next week and also do a drawing of their whole body.

First Grade finished their scarecrows and are starting their self-portraits today.

Second Grade started self-portraits. They should be able to finish them next week.

Third Grade started a collage project. I am really excited to see these when they are finished. They will be our next artsonia upload.

Fourth Grade is finishing up their contour resist projects and will finish a silhouette project this week or next.

Fifth grade didn't have art this week, so they will be finishing up their Jim Dine heart project next week. These should turn out to look  very good.

Sixth grade has one more class period to work on their cityscape, then we are starting a new project.

Seventh is finishing up their "yellow line" project.

Eighth grade is finishing up their typography letter contrast assignment. I think these are going to end up looking really cool as well.

Second Grade

Second graders missed one of their class times this week since we had the day off on Monday. The students have been working on a project inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian. Mondrian created non-objective artwork that used vertical and horizontal lines as well as the colors red, blue, yellow, black, white, and gray. We learned about Piet Mondrian and tried to use his techniques when coloring in an animal of choice. Students did a very good job on this project, and many are still finishing up.

2A

      Nolan

      Henry

      Andrew

      Danny

2B

      Maeve

      Jackson

      JP

     Nolan

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