International Dot Day

After 23 classes, listening to Emily Arrow's The Dot song countless times, and learning about the styles of 6 famous artists, we are finally ready for Dot Day!!!!

Dot Day is based on The Dot book by Peter H. Reynolds, which challenges us to "make a mark and see where it you." It is now an international holiday that celebrates creativity, courage, and collaboration. Creativity can be seen in the students' artwork, courage can be seen in trying something new, and collaboration can be viewed in a school wide art display by RBE students and celebrating a special holiday with people all over the world.

 

Each grade was assigned a famous artists to base their dot on. These artists have made their mark on the art world.

Kindergarten- Kandinsky

1st- Matisse

2nd- Andy Warhol

3rd- Van Gogh

4th- Monet

5th- Magritte

Can you spot these artist's style in the students' work?

Full of Color

Lessons for the Week:

This week is full of color. Each grade is working with color. The art curriculum allows scaffolding to take place so students are adding on to prior knowledge. He is a run down of the lessons.

Kindergarten- "I can use color"
We are studying Mondrian and learning about horizontal and vertical lines. We then colored in the spaces using our 3 favorite colors.

1st- "I can use and identify the primary colors"
We are studying Mondrian and how artists often borrow ideas. We are creating objects with Mondrian's famous design on it by using horizontal and vertical lines, as well as the primary colors.

2nd- "I can use and identify the secondary colors"
We studied how artist Wayne Thiebaud creates dessert art. We created our own dessert art by mixing primary colors to produce a secondary color. Our color mixing is displayed on our popsicles.

3rd- "I can use and identify warm and cool colors."
We studied the famous Japanese print The Great Wave off Kanagawa and created our own version by using warm and cool colors.

4th- "I can identify and create tints and shades"
We studied the art form Mandalas and created Mandalas that represented us. We then painted the negative space with tints and shades.

5th- "I can use and identify primary, secondary, intermediate, warm, and cool colors. I can create tints and shade and reproduce a value scale using paint"
We studied glass art by Dale Chihuly and we are producing our own relief sculpture using our knowledge of the color wheel, value scale, and tints and shades.

Be sure to check out my Twitter account @ArtMrsCarey to see students' finished projects.

Beginning of Year Project

                                    

Just like other classrooms, the first day of art is all about learning classroom expectations and routines. Learning the expectations and routines can take up a lot of class period, so we only a short amount of time to do an art project on the first day. 

For the first day project, I gave students a piece of paper that already had a picture of sunglasses on it. Students then had to turn the sunglasses into a self portrait by adding facial features. Lastly, I asked students to reflect upon what they did this summer and add these events are reflections into the sunglasses. 

Here are some students working on their self portraits. Can you guess what I did this summer?

Welcome to the Art Room!

Welcome to the art room! I am so excited about this school year. We will be creating many projects and using various mediums. However, we do need to follow a few procedures and expectations to keep things running smoothly. Read below to learn more about these.

Objectives

The art objectives allow students to know exactly what we are creating and the goal they should be trying to reach. Each grade level has a different objective build upon scaffolding. A project example will be posted by the objectives as well. This also allows students to know what project we are creating so there are no questions when they walk into class. The first day objective is "I can follow classroom rules and routines." and every student will be creating a self portrait that incorporates what they did this summer so I can get to know a little about them.

Classroom Expectations

Every classroom needs expectations so students can do their best behavior and academic wise. The art room has 6 expectations. These expectations allow me to do a point system in which classes are competing against one another to earn a gold medal. Here is the point break down:

1. Ninja Entrance- come in quietly and go straight to your learning spots

2. Be Sweet- be respectful to teacher and classmates

3. Use supplies correctly- Use supplies how it supposed to be used

4. Volume control- whisper during work time

5. Sparkling clean up- leave the room how you found it with everything in its appropriate place

6. Perfect Line Up- line up quietly and in line order

What will I do with my artwork? 

This is a frequent question asked in the art room. To alleviate a repeated question, I have this chart hanging and a clothespin will be placed next to the appropriate picture. Today, they are taking home their work. 

Table Jobs

The art room can get pretty hectic and messy. To solve this issue we have art job. Art jobs allow us to not waste anytime because students know exactly what they should be doing and we all work together. I have 6 tables in my classroom, therefore, there are 6 jobs. 

I hope you enjoyed taking a sneak peek into the art room. Let me know if you have any questions. 

Mrs. Carey :)

Blogging in the art room

Thank you so much for checking out my blog. This blog will allow me to share up to date information about what is happening in the art room. Be sure to check back often for project examples, classroom information, and school wide information.