Saw this and love it!

Saw this on Etsy...thinking of getting this for the hallway next to the art room.

Fall Pumpkins

This week, students are making pumpkins from their orange paper, grass from their green paper and gluing them to their purple paper from last week. The students are doing a great job at remembering how to hold scissors correctly and their pumpkins are looking awesome! They are using oil pastels to add details for the night sky and the lines on the pumpkins to make them appear bumpy. Some students chose to make 1 big pumpkin, while others chose 2 smaller pumpkins.


Concepts reviewed: Secondary Colors
                                 Primary Colors

Pink or Blue????

Today is the day my husband and I have been waiting for! We find out the gender of baby #2! Unfortunately, we have to keep it a secret until my in-laws come into town next weekend. This week, I'm going to have the children make their guess at what baby Varda is and then when I am able to reveal it, they can see if they were right!
This pregnancy has been so different from my first (being sick 18 weeks and food I can handle), so I'm thinking boy. I don't mind what the gender is though. I really just pray and hope for a very healthy child. I can't wait to start decorating the nursery too!


...to be continued...
:-)

Art to Remember Info Sheet

Order forms will be coming home THIS THURSDAY! Orders are due by November 5th and during the check out process you will have the option of having your order shipped to your home instead of to school. This option is new this year, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it works out for families. If you have any questions, please email me and not the classroom teacher, as they do not know the details of the program. 

Color Mixing!!!

Kindergarten artists are learning how to mix the Primary Colors to get the Secondary Colors this week. I am showing a video on the smart board (which you can view below) and we are going to paint 3 different pieces of paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ

The students will use their paper next week to create a picture. Stay tuned!

Monday Rotation Fall Leaves

The next 2 rotation Mondays will be an introduction to hot and cold colors. We call them hot and cold instead of warm and cool because in kindergarten, students have a difficult time understanding warm and cool. Hot colors are red, orange and yellow while cold colors are green, blue and purple. We will discuss what things are hot and to think of the color of those items. We will do the same for the cold colors.

Students will create a fall leaf picture using hot colors for their leaves and the cold colors in the background. I am providing leaf shape tracers for the students and discussing the veins inside the leaf.

Open House

K specials will be represented at Open House.  Due to the Book Fair (and expected crowd) that evening, please understand that specials teachers will be in the cafeteria. My room, the music room and the gym doors will be locked, so you will not have access into our classrooms.

Reminder of times:

5:30-6:15     a.m. class

6:30-7:15      p.m. class

ROY G BIV and Bubble Prints

Students this week are learning about the colors of the rainbow and ROY G BIV. The only color the students are not using is indigo, since I do not have that color available. Students are creating bubble prints. Each table is set up with the coordinating color of paint (i.e. red table has all red paint, etc.).


Students each get their own straw and they are blowing into the paint/soap mixture to create bubbles. Once they have a good amount of bubbles, they take their paper and press it over the top. When the paper is lifted, a print of the bubbles is on the paper. So many oos and aahs were said today. When I ring the bell, the students rotate to the next table taking their straw and paper with them.


The papers look really cool right now. I was planning on the students making a drawing over the top in another art class, but I might change my mind with how neat the papers are looking.


Unfortunately, Friday classes will not get to do this lesson since they do not have school. :-(

Adapted Art Classes

I have 2 classes of adapted art (SCSF room students). One class is kindergarten, the other is first grade. I have been working with the classroom teacher on themes and sticking to the theme each month they have/teach in their room. For the month of August and September, kindergarten had a beach/ocean theme. First grade had colors, shapes and counting theme. While the students are in art, they take sensory breaks at the sensory table which I change out monthly and also do stringing, put-in tubs and feel different textures. 

Kindergarten made sea horses with dot markers and the background being tissue paper. They also finger painted paper, used sandpaper for the sand, painted their hands multiple times and used tissue paper for seaweed to create and under water scene. Finally, they used dot markers again, added beans for gravel and glued down and colored a fish on a paper plate for a fish tank. 

First grade students started off requesting colors to paint a large piece of paper. When dry, I gave them the letters of their name to add tissue paper on. Next, we worked on recognizing circles and they painted with cardboard tubes in the primary colors. Then, we focused on triangles and created an owl and a black cat. We also practiced square and rectangle and created a robot and a turtle. I love how all of the art turned out!

Out Yesterday, Monday, October 12th

Hey everyone! I wanted to let you know sooner, but I had a headache over my eyes yesterday and sinus junk, so I slept almost the entire day. I was out yesterday. Unfortunately, my sub said she didn't read my sub plans before teaching, so everything I had ready for her was a waste. :-/ The art the children created was not up-to-par, so I will not be sending that project home. It's getting more and more difficult to find a great sub or someone with an art background to sub. Now I know why so many specials teachers give a movie to the sub for the kiddos to watch. If you know of anyone who wants to sub, please email me so I can put them on my sub list!
Have a great week everyone! I'm glad to be back today!!!

Bringing Home Art

Students have been working very hard on their artwork. I am almost ready to send home their masterpieces. My hope is to send home the collage, Kandinsky line, Kandinsky circle, and Mondrian next week (October 13-15).

To help encourage critical thinking and develop critical thinking skills, ask your child open-ended questions about their artwork (instead of saying "good job" or "that is beautiful").


Below are questions you can ask.

1. What can you tell me about your picture?

2. What materials did you use?

3. What is your favorite part of the picture?

4. What title would you give your picture?

5. How did you...(make the lines, decide on the colors, etc.)
6. Do you remember the artist who inspired this art?