This Week in Art:
PreK (Ms. Pepitone) ~ the class is finishing up making their ladybugs
Kindergarten ~ we will be finishing our self-portraits
Gr. 1 ~ the class is finishing up their encaustic paintings of our American flag. Our next class we will devote to fireworks painting with paper rolls and tempera.
Gr. 2 ~ Grade Two will learn about Claude Monet’s Iris paintings. They will learn how to paint iris flowers in the Impressionist style using tempera paints.
Gr. 3 ~ the students will be working on a Graffiti initial design project using complementary color pairs.
Gr. 4 ~ the class will be using complementary colored construciton paper to make a rip and paste collage.
Gr. 5 ~ Grade Five will be designing a lego character
Gr. 6 ~ these students will be painting in the style of Seurat using the pointillism technique.
Gr. 7 ~ after watching a video of some of the strangest looking buildings in the world the students are each drawing the outside of a “strange structure” of their own (ex. supermarket, apartment building, house, hospital).
Gr. 8 ~ the students were asked to use protractors to design an abstract painting inspred by the work of American artist F. Stella.
Art Elective ~ we are working on the construction of our amusement parks.
*** ALL STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN THEIR YEARLY ARTWORK TO TAKE HOME WHEN IT IS DISTRIBUTED TO THEM THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE.
Keep Creating!
Mrs. E. Kerwin

