Kindergartners are currently practicing their shapes and lines in art class. This week students used their knowledge of drawing shapes to create step by step shape bird.
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First graders are learning about famous potter Maria Martinez while creating a knee pot and pinch pot using real earth clay. Using multiple techniques, students learn about form and sculpture while molding their clay into a vessel. Students continue to add details to their abstract tree drawing/paintings using patterns and blending colors. Before starting our abstract trees we took an adventure outside to collect leaves to explore texture rubbings while making an abstract leaf painting. Ask your child about oil resist painting and how our leaf rubbings appeared through the paint. 4th and 5th grade classes have started a new collaborative project in art class. Students learned about the African American artist, Romare Bearden and his wonderful abstract collage art work. Students are working together in groups to create a mixed media abstract Cityscape collage. After exploring Romares' popular piece "The Block" students gathered their knowledge of the Art Elements shape, line, color and pattern to begin there group project. Students are learning the importance of sharing, assigning jobs and working well together. This will help strengthen their people skills as well as there problem solving skills. I look forward to sharing their final pieces in the hall way when they are completed. |
Mrs. HallI am the art teacher and creative coach at Lakewood and Waukazoo Elementary Schools, part of West Ottawa Public Schools. I received my Bachelor and Master of Art Education at Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm very proud to say that I am an art teacher and truly enjoy exploring the fine arts with my students. I am also a fine artist with a focus in printmaking. It is my joy of teaching that inspires me to be a better artist; the joy of creating my own art work that makes me a better teacher. I am very thankful to have a career in something that I am passionate about and love. Archives
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