November 18, 2019

​The Kindergartners and Ms. Natoli’s students finished up their Rainbow Row houses in a fun way and it is something they can do at home.  First they colored the reflection of the buildings, the water, and the sky with markers.  It didn’t matter if the markers were a bit dry – in fact the drier the better!  The next week the students used water and a brush.  They brushed water over the marker areas and it now looks like we painted our pictures.    The Kindergartners have now created a green collage’.  The students cut up pieces of different shades of green paper and then glued the pieces all over a larger piece of green paper.  We will be using this green collage’ as part of a landscape this week.  First graders looked at sunflower artwork by American Frances Foy and Vincent van Gogh.  We carefully observed the details and drew sunflowers in our sketchbooks.  We then created vase designs using primary colors.  Sunflowers were painted and then a tablecloth was made by weaving paper.  This week we will be putting all the parts together to create a sunflower still-life.  Boy did we combine a lot of art concepts into one project!  Ms. Wolf’s students finished their organic shape collage’ and will be moving onto a Native American project.  Second grade created weavings to align with the study of Native Americans in their classrooms.  The concepts of over and under were hard for some of us to grasp but we didn’t give up!  The weavings will be finished this week with fringes and Native American picture writing symbols.  We will be starting another Native American project after Thanksgiving.  Third grade is finishing up a project focusing on the element of value.  Value means the lightness or darkness of a color.  The students painted light values to create a sky and they are finishing it up this week by painting dark values of black to create a silhouette look for the ground.