This Week in Art:
All ECC classes will be learning about the artist Claude Monet. The children will be painting Monet’s beautiful lily pond and adding pink tissue crumbles to replicate the lilies.
Kindergarten: This class will finish up their lesson on using geometric shapes and lines to draw a figure of a person. Don’t forget to read the Parent Letter coming home about bringing in an assortment of leaves for a very favorite project…the Leaf People Collage!
Gr. 1: Our First graders will learn about using line families to create texture on their Hot Air Balloon Collage creations.
Gr. 2: Grade Two students will enjoy learning about the creative paintings of folk artist Heather Galler.
Gr. 3: This class will finish up their story quilts and move on to a unit on sculpture. Coming up….spider and bat creations made out of egg cartons and a little paint!
Gr. 4: Grade four will move into coloring in their “food paintings” based on the artwork of artist Wayne Thiebaud.
Gr. 5: Our Fifth graders will learn about the ancient art of Batik. They will start their very own Fall Faux Batik using glue and fall-inspired watercolors.
Gr. 6: This class will continue on their “Falling From…” drawings which was based on a lesson on perspective.
Gr. 7: The class will apply black tempera to their watercolor skies to create a Sunset Silhouette drawing/watercolor.
Gr. 8: The Eighth graders are still working on their “Phobia” drawings which was based on the artwork Scream by E. Munch.
Art Elective Class: It’s time to paint our 3D letters after letting the paper mache layer dry. Can’t Wait!
Have a Blessed Week and Keep Creating!
Mrs. E. Kerwin