Art Room Fundraiser

A unique fundraiser that celebrates your child's creativity!

Over the past few years, our Bethlehem families raised a good amount of money for the art room through the Square One Art fundraiser.  We did not participate in the fundraiser last year.  This year, it returns!  This program allows you to purchase your child's artwork printed useful and quality keepsakes.  Some ordered flags, water bottles, mousepads, ornaments. . . . there are many wonderful items!

This past week, and into this next, all students have been participating again in the program. We have some major replenishment of art supplies to buy this year.  Here is just a teaser on some of the art students will create. . . .

You'll soon be receiving information on the fundraiser.  

Thank you in advance for your participation!

End of the Week Art

It has certainly been a fun week in the art room!  Take a look at what the students have been creating.

The young students have continued to learn about line. . . types of lines, where to find them, and how to use them in their artwork.  Kindergarten made a chart of lines, then used them as they created Patterned Turtles.

Second grade used watercolor resist to make Windy Day Art.  Fairly fitting for some days we had this week! 

Seventh graders are creating "forgeries" of artwork by the French Impressionist, Claude Monet.  I can't wait to have you see the finished works.  Students are putting in a lot of effort to capture the correct colors and technique!

Busy Week in the Art Room

It was a very busy week in the art room! Lots of pictures to share this week. . . . Many of the elementary students are studying line this month. Kindergarten learned about thick and thin lines with a lesson on Navajo blankets. Here is one of the paintings to come from that lesson. First Grade completed a lesson on "broken lines". They looked at mosaic examples to first see how a line can outline shapes, but it does not need to be continuous. To further their instruction in line, we completed a chart of different kinds of lines. Third and Fourth Grade students are working on Bad Hair Day! In this lesson, students continue to refine their portrait drawing skills. They also create a wild hairdo for their portrait using a variety of lines that we studied and that they created on their own. However, this was said in the art room, too. "I finally created one of my best portraits ever, but now I have to give him crazy hair!" Fifth and sixth graders are continuing an extension of their Native American art history study by completing an art project based on the Winter Count. This item allows the Plains Indians to recored the past year through pictograms. While most Native American cultures practice oral traditions, many also use pictograms to record important events. Fifth through eighth grade students completed a still life for a drawing placement test. WE will revisit this later in the year as a personal growth tracker. Finally, here are the Arts Advocacy posters, completed by fifth through eighth grades, from the earlier part of the year. They are currently on display outside of the art room.

New Opportunities for Growth

During the 2018-2019 school year, I am introducing some new concepts to my curriculum at all grade levels. First Grade Over the past couple of weeks, younger students, especially the first graders, reviewed techniques they had learned last year. This week, the first graders reviewed painting. They showed me what they knew about proper use of painting supplies for tempera paint and watercolor. Third and Fourth Grades This year, I'm introducing art history for third through sixth grades! Third and fourth graders will learn traditional Western art history, beginning at Prehistoric times, and it goes all the way to contemporary times. Each month, we will learn a different unit. Here are some images of the students making hieroglyph messages! Middle School Our students recently completed their MAP testing. This week, middle school students completed a drawing assessment in art class. I will use this as a measure of growth over the course of the year. At the end of the year, students will again take the "test" to measure their improvement. I already could see students had retained valuable information from previous lessons! Additionally, they took a color pre-test in order to prepare for the new unit ahead.