The Art Room

December has been a short yet crazy month with the holiday approaching.   We have busy working on finishing and sending our projects home before the break. Kindergarten This month kindergarten completed their mouse paint pictures.  We cut out ovals, semi-circles, or circles for the bodies of the mice.  We placed them in a circle to make the color wheel. Next after the mice we glued down we started to add in all the things that could help make it look like a mouse: hands and feet, nose and whiskers, ears and eyes and last but not least a tail.    We used the rest of the month to fit in a quick Christmas project.  Using simples shapes: squares, rectangles, triangles to create a tree with present underneath. Later if there was extra time bows, ornaments, and other details were added. 1st grade This month we finished our shooting stars!  Next we started a winter landscape.  We reviewed warm and cool color families.  Everyone used each family once. One family for the trees and the othe

This November was short but full of activity.  Students in 2nd and 3rd grade started their online portfolios with Artsonia. 3rd grade had been bouncing around between their ninjas and Chihuly's Macchias.  As our first clay project we talked more about glazing.  Although chihuly worked with glass we were able to get a glass look with our glaze.  Students used our glaze sample chart to select their glazes.  They were able to use two different glazes on the inside and outside or just one all over.  We discussed what made each brand's glazes different from one another. 2nd grade finished their landscapes and have started to talk about repetition.  We have used repetition to create our stacked cups and will be starting a snowflake piece that also will include repetition.  We are making the same things and repeating them, making each on a little bit different. 1st grade has just finished their shooting stars!  Watercolor paints, permanent markers, with lines and shapes an