Monday- Hall Color Day! Tuesday- Accessories Day! Wed- Sports Team Day! Thursday- Beach Bum Day & don't forget your beach towel for stop, drop and read! Friday- Eagle Pride Day! The KG students read the book My Many Colored Days and then talked about how different colors make them feel. Students then chose a color on how they felt that day and drew a self portrait of themselves using markers, crayons, and colored pencils in different shades of the color! Fourth grade learned that one way artists get ideas are from words.... books, quotes, names, and poetry! They wrote their own "I Am..." poems and are turning them into ART! Stay tuned to see these masterpieces painted! Check out the amazing 4th grade newscasters who have been hosting the Red and Gold Report! This team is doing GREat! Second graders have been talking about the element of art, line! They are working this week on completing their line drawing based on their name. Some students had to come up with as many as 23 different lines to fill up their name! After reviewing the color wheel first graders have been learning the order of the rainbow, ROY G BIV! They learned a special song to help them remember and then drew their own ROY G BIV birds. Art projects in every grade are officially underway! After each student made a portfolio to keep all their projects in we now are starting to fill them up! Make sure to ask your kids what they have been working on on art class : ) KG- We read the book Color Zoo and students then built animals with shapes. They will be painting them soon! 1st Grade- Students reviewed the color wheel and are now making ROY G BIV Birds to remember the order of the rainbow! 2nd Grade- Students are learning about the element of art, line and using their name as the subject of their art project. 3rd Grade- Students have been reading the poem, No One Saw, Ordinary Things through the Eyes of an Artist. They then created their own picture of something like they see like no one else. 4th Grade- Students have been talking about where artists get their ideas for art. For our first project they are getting their idea from words, by writing an I AM poem to use as the background in their painting! The kids in 1st- 4th grade at GRE have gone through a full ABCD rotation, which means that everyone has been to art! The KG kiddos will have their first specials experience tomorrow. During quarter 1 Miss Erjavec's AM class will have art every A day! What we have been working on... 1st- My All About Art Book 2nd- All About Me & 2nd Grade Portraits 3rd & 4th- Art Room Scavenger Hunt |