PTO Accelerated Reader T-Shirt Contest

I've been working feverishly with my 3rd - 5th graders on a collaboration with our school's PTO.  The PTO graciously takes care of the awards and prizes that our students receive for earning points for reading books and taking quizzes on them.  The most coveted of the prizes being the AR T-Shirt!  When the PTO approached me about the students creating the design for the next shirt I LOVED the idea!  And the kids did too!  So we've spent the last couple weeks learning about Graphic Designers and how many of the everyday packages and logos we see were designed by artists.  Here are just a few of my favorites that have been turned in so far...and Mrs. Bates' class working diligently!  PTO will have a hard choice to make!

 

Artwork by: Alex G.

Artwork by: Sebastian S.

Artwork By: Mariana O.

Artwork By: Grace N.

Artwork By: Isabella Z.

Artwork By: Tiffy C.

Artwork By: Cheyanne S.

And I couldn't resist posting this one!  Mr. Corbin, this student thought that you should be on a t-shirt!  Our students love our new media aid so much!

Our little Architects!

First Grade learned about a career in Art this week: an architect!  We read the book Iggy Peck Architect, and talked about all the way buildings can be unique through their architecture!  It was also a great chance to review skills like: shape knowledge, cutting and gluing.  Enjoy!

Artwork by: Miley W.

EXPLOSION OF COLOR...and a scrap paper mess, but it's a good mess!  Means a lot of creativity happened today!

More Kinder

Here is some more fun from Mrs. Vanus' Kindergarten Class creating their Pete the Cat drawings!

Art work created by: Madeline N.

Throw Back Thursday!

As I was cleaning up my computer of unnecessary items I found a project that I never published from last year.  Last year 3rd grade worked long and hard on their Moroccan Tessellation Tile project using color pencils.  The students had to create their own stencils to create the shape of the tiles and then carefully traced them to make the intricate pattern.  I can't believe I never posted it!  The results were gorgeous!

Mr. Whaley's Class Keith Haring Inspired Fun Day!

Kindergarten Learns to Draw Cats!

In Kindergarten for the last few weeks we've been working on shapes and how to see shapes in the objects we wish to draw.  After reading Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses the kinders then learned how to find the shapes they saw in Pete.  They learned that cats could be drawn mostly with triangles.  The results are creative and dare I say it: adorable.

 

Artwork by Ava B.

Artwork by Isabella

Welcome Back Southwest!

To say that I'm excited for the new school year would be a huge understatement!  I'm bursting out of my skin with joy and anticipation!!!  I've got a new classroom...and it has WINDOWS!!!  I've missed you guys; but summer let me have some time to plan fun things for this year!  Can't wait to let you all know about it in Art Class this week!

See you there!