JVE's 5th Grade Creates Laurel Burch "Fantastic Felines"!

Jones Valley 5th graders have worked hard to create these playful cats.  Their object is personal to them.  It may be a symbol, making a statement, or simply something they enjoy.

JVE's 2nd Grade Wild Things!

Second graders had a blast creating their very own Wild Things!  Students listened to the book Where the Wld Things Are and learned about three different types of texture:  stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching.  They then designed their Wild Thing and added movement - to show it was doing the dance of the Wild Rumpass.  Students drew, traced, and painted their Wild Thing for 4-5 art lessons.  We wrapped up our Wild Things unit by watching a very short video where Maurice Sendak himself narrates his animated book Where the Wild Things Are:  http://youtu.be/TbXS7gNIGIY 

Night at the Museum

Monte Sano Elementary's PTA recently put on a Night at the Museum!  EVERY students' artwork K-5 was displayed on the walls or in display cases.  Children loved getting to see all the artwork displayed all at once.  It was a regular...museum!  Handouts explaining each piece of work were passed out for parents, and informative clips and quotes were posted throughout the room.  Artwork remains on view for a while longer - try to make it up the mountain to see it if you haven't already!

Here are a few shots of the night after the PTA meeting had adjourned (above).

Wizards & Angels

Third graders put on 3-D glasses and viewed and talked about Matisse's dancing figures in several of his pieces of art.  Students were told they needed to express "movement" with their figure. They chose which to create: a "wizard" or an "angel."  They used etching paper for their robes, line and design with sharpie markers on their backgrounds and borders.  Students used clay to create facial forms, and sharpies and paint to finish them.  Doll hair was applied with hot glue as a final touch. 

Kindergarten's Van Gogh Collages

This is a project I created for the kindergarten students at Jones Valley Elementary last year.  Each student painted his/her backgrounds, drew and cut out flowers, leaves, and vases. Students learned about horizon lines, organic and geometric shapes, symmetry, and texture.  They drew with glue on their vases, then paitned them, and overlayed that with pastels of a different color.  Children were happy with their results when they saw them displayed on the bulletin board.  We had a critique after the posting.

 

MSE 5th grade clay projects

We're in the middle of creating sculptural reliefs with 5th graders right now.  Someone up at Monte Sano stopped by and donated these mat boards with ovals cut out of them.  We had just enough for a 5th grade project - and what's more fun than crazy faces peering out from the wall? Students were given slabs of clay, a newspaper form in the shape of an oval, and their mat board.  Students learned how to sculpt faces and then painted them the next time.  Next art time, we plan to add more layers of paint - and details such as the whites of the eyes - and possibly some 3-D built up texture to our matboards.

Kindergarten Dia del los Muertos Prints

Kindergarten at Monte Sano celebrated October by creating Day of the Dead art prints.  We talked about this celebration of life in Mexico.  Then we looked at images online of Day of the Dead art prints.  Students were excited about creating their own Day of the Dead art prints.  Students were given two paper plates to put together to trace for their skull's outline.  Then they were given pieces of pre-cut paper and told to arrange them however they thought they should be arranged on their face.  Students created mouths, noses, eyes, teeth, etc. out of their pieces of paper.  Each piece was unique. After those dried, the next two art lessons were printing time.  We used brayers and black ink to print our raised image onto another sheet of paper.  We were initially intending to add flowers to make it "pretty..." but it seems to be just as it needs to be as is.  : )

Eco Club Artwork at JVE

For several years Mrs. Tucker and I have conducted Eco Club meetings in the art room.  We are currently working on "Log Books" with our 3-5th graders.  One of our craft projects with Eco Club involved recycled  bottles snow people.  We used watered down glue, tissue paper, black sequins, glitter, and water bottles with the bottoms cut off.  We added lighs on the inside of them.

3rd Grade Self-Portraits

3rd Grade Self-Portraits

Jones Valley 3rd graders have just finished some fun self-portraits - and just in time for Mardi Gras!  We combined Warhol's Pop-Art and Kandinsky's Expressionism in our art piece.  Student works were created to convey the value of emotion in art.  Each child thought about an emotion they wished to depict, and then expressed it in their piece.  We also used lively brushstrokes and marks and 3-D pieces to create movement in our work.  Students seemed to greatly enjoy being involved in the creation of this artwork. 

My first Blog.

Hi,  I've just created my page today so that I can share my students' artwork and art experiences.  The Huntsville City Schools art teachers met yesterday during inservice and joined a common site on blogspot.com to view each other's art and art lessons.  In order to do this, I had to link this to one of my old gmail accounts, create a separate gmail profile, this webpage, and a profile to view others' blogs.  I hope this all works!

Today is our workday at school.  I have tons to do, so I'm going to finish this and get to workin my classroom!