FINE ARTS FESTIVAL ~ The Fine Arts Festival is the entire month of May.  Come view your child’s artwork hanging up in the hallways.  Check out the three-dimensional artwork displayed on the tables outside the hallway on the first floor.  The students have worked hard all year during their art classes and I’m so proud of each and every one of them!

ART CONTEST ~ This year we are participating again in the Hicksville Water District’s  Water Conservation Poster Contest.  This contest provides an opportunity for the students in grades 1-5 to creatively express what they can do to conserve water through artwork.  There will be exciting prizes awarded at the Awards Ceremony in June.  Good luck to all!

This Week in Art:

PreK ~ the students will be painting with tempera to prepare in the making of their ladybugs.

Kindergarten ~ the class will finish their review of the Primary and Secondary colors on the color wheel.

Gr. 1 ~ we will discuss American artist Jasper John’s famous encaustic painting, Flag.  The students will create a many layered, textured collage. They will incorporate paper clippings of patriotic words, songs and pledges and use watercolors to create their own flags.

Gr. 2 ~ the class will paint a Color Chameleon filled with all the Primary and Secondary colors of the color wheel.  They will use construction paper to create a landscape collage for their chameleons.

Gr. 3 and Gr. 5 ~ will be working on their entries for the Water District Poster Contest.

Gr. 4 ~ the students will learn about Scale in Composition as they study the background set of “A Bug’s Life,” the movie.  The class will make a drawing using scale when they illustsrate a bug going about its daily life.

Gr. 6 ~ this class will learn about the artist Seurat and the Impressionistic style of painting called pointillism.  The students will use this technique to paint a type of fruit.

Gr. 7 ~ the class will be finishing up the abstract side of their split-face self portraits.

Gr. 8 ~  the students will be working on their Fingerprint Frenzy drawings.  They will use their fingerprints in a creative drawing or comic strip.

Art Elective ~ has been hard at work constructing the elements of an exciting and fun amusement park.

Keep Creating!

Mrs. E. Kerwin