Tis' the season for a little love! (Sorry for the late post!) Lower and Upper Elementary children at Trillium Springs created a beautiful stained glass display just in time for February and Valentine's Day. We discussed stained glass artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his symmetrical, geometric style of work. We then created symmetrical hearts out of construction paper and collaged tissue paper to our stained glass template. The children loved the effect of the sunlight through their masterpieces!
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At Trillium Springs, the upper elementary artists learned about the differences between up-cycling, recycling, re-using and re-purposing. We came up with ideas to re-use items that may have otherwise been thrown away or recycled. We then learned how to make no sew tote bags and some artists decided to even up-cycle the sleeves to create pockets. So much fun making art with what could have been trash!
Kindergarten students at Steele Creek and Primary students at Trillium Springs created fun and colorful chicks! We learned that John Audubon was a scientist before cameras were invented, therefore he drew and painted pictures of all of the birds he wanted to study. After looking at his paintings we drew our own birds and added creative details like hats and hair! The next art class we learned a rainbow order song to the tune of "head, shoulders, knees, and toes" and added rainbow order colors to our chicks. Afterwards we reviewed our watercolor painting skills and created rainbow backgrounds for our birds.
Macy's partners with the Make-A-Wish Foundation every year to celebrate "Believe Day". Each year on Believe Day, children create letters to turn in to Macy's. For every letter Macy's receives Macy's will donate $1 (and $2 on Believe Day!) to the Make-A-Wish Foundation to assist in granting wishes for local children. In Lower Elementary classes we discussed what wishes we would have for the holiday season for ourselves and for others. We then created cards to express what wishes we may have. We raised a total of $59 for Make-A-Wish this year. This cause is especially near and dear to me since my husband works for Make-A-Wish and is able to see first hand the power of a wish. Wishes below: "I wish that all the wish children that their wishes come true", "I wish for everyone that all get what they want and all the sick people get better. My mom can help them she works in a hospital!", and "I wish that the people in the hospital get better."
After a unit on Native American culture in Ms. Kristine's Upper Elementary Classroom, we reviewed the purpose and meaning of totem poles. Afterwards, we browsed through several sources explaining animal meanings on totem poles. Once, the students decided on an animal that best represented themselves they began working on their personal totem animals. After they finished creating their animals, the artists answered questions about their totem in the form of an artist statement.
At Trillium Springs, Mr. Marlon and the children worked hard to prepare for and perform a holiday song collection. In the Art Room we created watercolor resist snowflakes with primary artists, cut paper snowflakes with lower elementary, and 3-dimensional snowflakes with upper elementary to be displayed during the performance. Check out our TSM children working hard and collaborating to create a fabulous display!
After learning about the artist, Wassily Kandinsky, and the fact that he had synesthesia: the connectedness of one or more senses in his case he could see sounds as colors. We then looked at his concentric circle artwork piece. When it was time for Trillium artists to have a turn at creating concentric circles, we listened to several songs in a variety of genres and based on the song the artists heard, they drew a circle in a corresponding color. What a good lesson to talk about mood and how music can impact our feelings! We had so much fun sharing our reasoning behind choosing each color.
Steele Creek first grade artists created a one day Pastel Pumpkin to display on the art board before Thanksgiving Break. Together we worked to create an oil pastel pumpkin made of contour lines and filled them in with shadows and highlights. We observed a pumpkin in the classroom and shared descriptions of how the pumpkin looked in different lighting situations. After working with oil pastels on our pumpkins we switched gears to chalk pastels for our background and the shadow our pumpkins cast on the ground. We then compared and contrasted the oil and chalk pastels at the end of our lesson.
In celebration of the season change Lower Elementary students at Trillium, First grade, and Second grade students at Steele Creek created Fall art pieces. First grade students and 2 classes of Lower Elementary students created Fall Trees. They learned about the art terms: landscape and horizon line and reviewed the difference between horizontal and vertical lines. We also learned about Georges Seurat and his pointillism style when we painted our leaves with pencils! Not to mention all the fun we had blowing our ink branches with straws. Second grade students and the other 2 Lower Elementary classes created Leaf Zentangle drawings with intricate patterns and a background with either warm or cool colors. What a nice way to ring in the Fall and appreciate all of its beauty!
Kindergarten students at Steele Creek Elementary and Primary students at Trillium springs learned about Dale Chihuly, the famous glass artist. We learned about his technique of blowing glass and that sand+fire=glass. We watched videos of Chihuly and his team blowing glass and even put ourselves in his shoes when we created an eye patch to wear during art, just like Chihuly! We also learned the difference between a 2-dimensional, flat coffee filter and a 3-dimensional macchia coffee filter! This project was so much fun!
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