That time of year again...

Clay time! the time of year where the art room fills with dirt and dusk and i will prob. get a stellar cold from all the lovely mold growing on the clay... but this year we have fun stuff going on... details and photos to come...

k-1 Pinch Pots (some 1st are going to make slab birds)
2-3 Slab Birds with added tails
4-5 Pinch Pot animals

The ideas all came from my wonderful blogger friends ... i will add their links to their projects when i get my detailed posts up and going...

Wonderful start so far..... now lets just see if i make it through all the germs and dust...

So much going on... so little time....

So many fun things have been going on this semester and time has flown past and i haven't gotten a chance to update... attached are a few pictures of some of the projects we have completed and soon i will get posts up for how we did each.

 K1--

Brown Bear Brown Bear

Value Pumpkins

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Letter Clowns

 LeRoy Neiman Lions

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Keith Harring Motion

Fauvist Colored Rescue Dog Portraits

Illuminated Letter

4/5th grade students learned a little about middle ages art.  For our fundraiser at LMES this year we chose to work with the students first letter to their name and create artwork around that.  The 4/5 kiddos created illuminated letter.  We took a simple bubble letter and embellished it... added touches of nature around them for details and finished with blended colored pencils to create fun letters!

FAUVIST LIONS!

This idea came from this post ... http://marymaking.blogspot.com/2011/09/leroy-neiman-inspired-lions.html.. on Mary Making.

I changed it a little but kept the basic concept and history portion similar.  I used colored pencils for the face and then added tempera paint for the main--- fun project with pretty good results... some students rushed and made a MESS but most did a pretty good job.   We talked a lot about subjective color use and how simply laying colors over others will keep the one color clean and also blend to create a new color with what is under it.  Very fun but i would make a few changes to how we draw the face next time.

PeacockS!!!!

My k1 kiddos created peacocks for this years fundraiser project.  The started by tracing a peacock body, adding a beak out of paper then drawing lines around it.  They then used the two primary colors and the secondary color it makes to add dots around the lines... they used their fingers to make these spots.  Once that was dry we added in little feather lines off of the main line in those same 3 colors to create the full feather.  Very fun and colorful results!

Piet Primary Colors

Simple, quick but got the lesson learned... i really wanted to drill in learning the primary colors with my K-1 students this year so we did a quick Piet Modrian Project to learn about the 3 primary colors.  We started by reading the book Color, by Ruth Heller, which explains the printing process and how the 3 primary colors overlap to mix and make every color printed.  This along with my attention cue of saying "Red, Yellow, Blue and the students responding "Eyes on you" helped them learn that those 3 colors were important.  The two facts i made sure they all knew was that those 3 colors combine to make many other colors, and that they are the only 3 colors that cant be made by mixing others.  The project was dont with cut black strips that they glued down making geometric boxes like Modrian and then they colored in boxes with only the 3 primary colors like he used to paint with.  Okay results in the project but they do all now know the 3 primary colors and why they are special.

Book we read:

Finished K students work:

The Day Vice President Biden Came to School

Oakstead Elementary was lucky enough to be picked as the FL Pasco County school that VP Joe Biden came to visit.  During our preparation to welcome the VP (one days notice of his arrival), his "people" asked for some art work to be put up and a banner to be made so that behind VP Biden there would be a taste of the kids. We transformed our media center into speach central and have also decided that from now on we will display art work up on the walls rather than just "Reading" posters.  If you look closely you will see the dancing giraffes from the previous post and then peacock from posts coming soon! Having VP Biden visit OES was such a fun and exciting experience for our students and staff something we will never forget!

(Thanks to the local news stations and google images for the photos :) )