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Visit Art for Kids Hub Channel. 

Practice your drawing skills by completing two drawings from the tutorials provided. Reflect on  the challenges and success that you encountered. 

I REALLY enjoyed exploring the many different tutorials that this channel has to offer!  The super kid friendly, step-by-step drawings are fun and challenging.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub

For my first drawing, I chose to follow along with the newest tutorial in honor of Earth Day...

How To Draw An Earth Day Folding Surprise - #stayhome and draw #withme

For the second drawing, I wanted to create a picture for a friend who is a nurse...

Here is a video of the drawings that I created! What will you choose to draw today?

Encore BINGO board G3 

Learn about a Famous Artist by watching "Art with Mati and Dada" online. Draw/color a work of art by the featured artist.

After look at all of the awesome artist featured on this channel , I chose to watch the video featuring Kandinsky.  I have always enjoyed his art work!

Art with Mati and Dada: Kandinsky

 

Kandinsky was well know for connecting his Art to Music.  He would create paintings that represnted how he though the sound of music should look!  I wanted to give it a try....

I chose to listen to Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca.  Have a listen!

Here is my Kandinsky STYLE drawing that was INSPIRED my Mozart's music.

Hear all about it!

   

Art Talks: Compare and Contrast

Art Talks

with Mrs. Waddell

After listening to an Art Talk, show me what you know! Visit the FlipGrid and post a response.  I love to hear from you!
https://flipgrid.com/waddellarttalk

 

  

Compare and Contrast

Let take a look at these two works of art.  

How are they similar (compare)?  How are they different (contrast)?

  

    Night Heron by David Bates                  Wondrous Birds by Hans Thoma 

Click the video link below to see the Art Talk! 

https://youtu.be/f8_9aIonE-8

You Try It!

Encore BINGO square G4 Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy

Encore BINGO Board Square G4

Find sticks, leaves and other natural materials to make a picture on the ground. 

Find inspiration from Andy Goldsworthy! 

I LOVE to be outside and I LOVE art... \

What an amazing way to join two things a really enjoy.  Click the link to hear all about it! 

https://bit.lu/39Tllmk 

Magical Land Art by Andy Goldsworthy

Here is MY fun little nature sculpture inspired by Andy Goldsworthy.  

Click the link to hear all about it!

https://youtu.be/b-exHJvD7z4 

Encore BINGO Square N2 Visit #metkids

Encore BINGO Square N2

Visit #metkids!

 Explore Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click the map or hop in the time machine to discover a work of art that you connect with. Sketch the work of art and write down a fact. 

After exploring all of the amazing art from around the world, I found an amazing work of art from China. I connected with this Imperial Robe... Click the video below to hear about all about it!

Click Here to hear all about this artwork!

Encore BINGO 

Square B 12

Illustrate your favorite book character.  Label the character with descriptive words...adjectives!

My favorite book character is the extremely creative little Harold from the Harold and the Purple Crayon collection.  Take a look at the video linked below to hear all about it!    

  

https://youtu.be/7zdXQBDdXww

Encore BINGO board! Come join the fun!

While you are home...

Keep up your awesome creativity, musical greatness, physical fantasticness, and reading razzle dazzle!  Our Encore Team has given you the opportunity to select activities that will help us stay connected.  Follow the instructions on the BINGO boards attached below and don't forget to share your amazing achievements! 

K-2 Encore BINGO board

3-5 BINGO Board

Cave Art in the Dark!

Kindergarten learned about some of the earliest artist...prehistoric cave painters!  We took a VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP and explored the caves of Lascaux France.  They enjoyed seeing how BIG the paintings were and had some very good discussion about what it would have been like to be an artist in the prehistoric eras.  

"Those caves are dark and they have paper or tables to work on!"

"The walls are rock so it would be much harder to paint on."

"But, you know... the cave was a good place to put their art!  There is no rain to wash off the paint and no animals to rub it away either. That cave saved all that art!"

Brilliant observations!     

So, we spent the day trying to create art like the cave artist.  To recreate the experience, we made a list of all the conditions that we could try...  Lights out, we crumpled our paper to make them rough, and tested out using different drawing positions.  It sparked tons of reflective conversations and some fun sketches!  

Our "Family Fun Night" was a ton of ...well...FUN!  This year, we held an art show with a twist.  Instead of just coming in and look at the art that the kiddos made, we set up Give it a TRY stations so the parents can sit down and learn from the kids how to do the projects that they see.  It was wonderful to see the student teaching their parents!  

Here are a few fun shots of the festivities, thanks to Mrs. Johnson!

Learning how to draw a room using one-point-perspective.

Teaching their parents how to sew.

Adding artwork to our "Cave" :)

Teaching each other how to do Origami!

We had a blast!

Kinders

Artist Like Me!

 This little project is one of my favorite Kindergarten lessons. We get to draw a picture of ourselves drawing another picture!  These kiddos have really grown as little artist this year and it is fun to give them the chance to show themselves being a "really-for-real" artist... as Miss Brook explained it.  

Kindergarten 

Zebras... No Two Alike!

Inspired by... Mrs. Crisco and our text feature...

More Zebra Pictures to come this week as soon as we have the whole herd finished! 

Kindergarten 

Weaving Wonders! 

Recycled T-shirt yarn + Hulla Hoops = Super Awesome Kindergarten Rugs!

I am so proud of our littlest artists here at Morton!  We just completed our weaving unit and (with lots of dedication and patience) we've got some great art to share.  Each class collaboratively wove a set of circle rugs using our "Over, Under" pattern.  Once these beauties are done being displayed, there will be donated to the library as special "Reading Spots"!     

And while my Kinders were waiting their turn to work on the class rugs, they practiced their weaving skills individually creating these paper quilts.  

Discovering self confidence and learning to encourage each other through group DOT paintings! 

Kindergarten just finished their first art lessons of year.  We read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds and learned how important it is to always TRY in art class... because you never know what you can do until you give it a try!  We also learned that it is important to encourage and help each other so we can all become better artist.

So, we laid out several 8 foot long papers and created our group painting.  This was the very first time painting for a lot of our kindergarten friends.  As a group, we learned how to share our supplies, invited our neighbors to come and paint on our dots (sharing our space), and help one another learn how to make circles and dots with paint.     

While giving paint to Kindergartners for their first art lesson may mark me as a crazy art teacher, the lessons in sharing, material exploring, and confidence building was worth the mess!  Now my new little artist are excited and ready to TRY everything when they visit art class.  

Blog Update!

I am super excite to start a brand new year at Morton Elementary School.  

2014-2015 will be the best year yet!  

Let start off with a "Look Back" at some amazing art that was create last year before this blog was up and rolling. This year, I'll post bi-monthly to keep everyone in-the-ART-know. 

 It's time to get Nostalgic!  

Lets start with Kindergarten... 

Texture Rubbings: We investigated our new school and captured some textured on our "Spots".  After putting them together, we shared in our groups where we went, what we found, and how it felt!

Literature Inspiration: Harold and the Purple Crayon taught us how to be creative and use our imaginations.  Only using purple paper shapes and purple crayons,  we made pictures that Harold would be proud of! 

Thanksgiving Reflections: After talking about what we are thankful for, the Kinders practiced their writing and drawing skills to create a "Thankful Bracelet" key.  Each color bead represents something special and their key helped them explain the meaning of their bracelet during sharing time.