Elementary Grade 5 - February 28 - March 4, 2011

Portfolio Days – This week we will spend some time looking at our past work and organizing our individual portfolios. Some work we will be sending home and some we will keep for a while. Then we will choose our best work to share at the spring art exhibit. We will continue to work on the Greek theater masks. We are altering them for a custom fit and then we will make them look like their characters.

Elementary Grade 4, February 28 - March 4, 2011

Portfolio Days – This week we will spend some time looking at our past work and organizing and decorating our individual portfolios. Some work we will be sending home and some we will keep for a while. Then we will choose our best work to share at the spring art exhibit. All art work will be sent home at the end of the semester. Also, we will continue to work on the designs for the printing unit.

Elementary Grade 3 - February 28 - March 4, 2011

Portfolio Days – This week we will spend some time looking at our past work and organizing and decorating our individual portfolios. Some work we will be sending home and some we will keep for a while. Then we will choose our best work to share at the spring art exhibit. We will also begin work on the “story boards” to illustrate our Tie-Dye Reed stories.

Elementary Grade Two, February 28 - March 4, 2011

Portfolio Days – This week we will spend some time looking at our past work and organizing our individual portfolios. Some work we will be sending home and some we will keep for a while. Then we will choose our best work to share at the spring art exhibit. Grade 2 will also enjoy a trip to the “art cafeteria”. They will select their own materials from the offerings on the “cafeteria table” and then they will use their own ideas to create.

Elementary Grade 5, February 22-25, 2011

Grade five Greek Temple designs are on display in the reception area of the Administration building. Stop by and take a look if you have time. This week we will continue to develop our masks for the Greek theater. We have completed the first layer of papier-mache and will add several more before we start modifying them into indvidual characters. Right now they all look very much the same.

Elementary Grade 4, February 22-25, 2011

Grade four students are beginning a unit on printmaking. This week they will be looking at three types of printing, woodcut, linocut and etching. After they create their design they will develop it into a print and experiment with color in the printing process.

Elementary Grade 3, February 22 -25, 2011

Grade three students will put their cave painting lesson on hold for a while. We will be working the next few weeks in collaboration with Miss Christiana's language arts lesson on writing stories. In the art class we will be looking at children's book illustrators and how they work.and then illustrating the story they have composed in language arts class. Then we will prepare our work for "publication". Hooray, for young authors! This should be fun!

Elementary Grade Two, February 22-25, 2011

Grade two students will use their time this week to complete their abstract paintings inspired by artist Chuck Close. Then we will have a portfolio day and take a good look at all of our work from the first three quarters. This is a good time to make and decorate individual portfolios and add finishing touches to any incomplete work.

Elementary Grade 5 - February 14-17, 2011

From architecture to dramatic arts. With their original temples completed – fifth graders will begin creating a mask in the tradition of ancient Greek drama. They will use the plastic face forms to create the foundation for their mask with papier-mâché. Then they will develop their individual characters to use in their social studies performance.

Elementary Grade 4 - February 14-17, 2011

Hooray! Our fish are having a great time swimming in the library coral reef. We had a great celebration and with the help of Mr. Juan on the ladder all of our fish were happily released to swim under the ceiling. This week? Hmmm new art adventures await. How about some printing experiments. We will use the brayer to spread ink on our printing plates made with printing foam and cardboard. What will our subject be? NOT FISH!

Elementary Grade 3 - February 14-17, 2011

Paint like a cave man! Third graders are looking at the work of prehistoric artists to get insights into why we make art and how the first paintings were made. Then they will decorate the first part of our timeline wall with “real” cave paintings.

Elementary Grade 2 - February 14-17, 2011

Last week grade two students created the set and props for their Friday performance of El Gato. What a great job they did working together. Their art work enhanced their wonderful performance.

This week they will follow up their portrait project by looking at the work of Chuck Close and creating abstract paintings based on his work.

Elementary Grade 5 - January 31 - February 11, 2011

Ask your student to explain the three styles of Greek columns - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian – we are having fun designing our own Greek temple. Students will be keeping their eyes open looking for the influence Greek architecture on the buildings they see in Tegucigalpa. They have completed their research and have completed the basic temple construction now they will be adding details and relief sculptures.

Elementary Grade 4 - January 31 - February 11, 2011

The fish for the library coral reef are just waiting for final touches of color before they are launched or “released”. We are planning a special class celebration to mark the completion of this major effort. You are invited to join us Friday February 11, at 2:15 in the library. Come help us celebrate!

Elementary Grade 3 - Janaury 31 - February 11, 2011

Grade three students looked at the Mayan mask making traditions and answered the question what is an artifact? Then they created a miniature model of a Mayan mask using Sculpy terra cotta clay to form the base and then after baking the form they added colored Sculpy to represent precious jade. Then the mask was baked again. (Thanks again to grade 10 students who purchased the oven for the art room with proceeds from their guacales auction last year.)
We added our miniature Mayan masks to the Mayan Museum exhibits. We will add additional embellishments and finishing touches to them this week.

Elementary Grade 2, January 31-February 11, 2011

Grade two students are continuing their unit on portraits. They started by drawing a self portrait looking closely at the shape of their faces, placement of their eyes and hair styles. Next they looked at the portraits painted by Julio Visquerra and used oil pastels and water color paints to create their own Visquerra inspired creations.

Who is Chuck Close? We will take an “up close” look at this artist and his portrait paintings. Then we will use some of his ideas to inspire our own compositions. Using tempera paint color and form will take on a new dimension.