Broadway Boogie-Woogie

If your kids came home this week telling you about the Broadway Boogie-woogie, it isn't the newest dance move...well, maybe it is, but it is also the Mondrian painting that we studied!  We talked about primary colors in kindergarten and honed those scissor skills.  We learned about horizontal and vertical lines (and using a ruler for a straight edge) in first and second grade.  We learned that our favorite things can inspire our art, just like Jazz inspired the Broadway Boogie-woogie. AND...we learned a great gluing song to remind us just how much glue we need to make things stick!

Third, Fourth and Fifth grade this week created amazing Crazy Cactus watercolor paintings that reflect a Southwest Theme in warm colors.  They are still hard at work on these so peek back next week to see the results!  I LOVE THEM!  Sixth grade this week took on a huge challenge!  They are doing a 2 part project that focuses reptiles in a relief piece.  They learned how to build up pastels to create a smooth surface and they created a background using geometric and organic shapes!  I cant wait to see the reptiles that land on these!  We talked a lot about the elements of art and how to find them in their work when they finish a piece. The students also worked hard to also identify the difference between the theme and subject in a painting.   Wow!  Busy week!

This coming week we will be doing something a bit different in art!  I collaborated with all of the classroom teachers to create projects that not only meet tons of art standards, but also reflect classroom work that is going on!  I am so excited to see how this helps the students that struggle in the classroom or art to find a connection that they can relate to!  Coming up we have kindergarten alphabet portraits, first and second grade city scape prints, third grade will create landscape weaving, fourth/fifth grade is going to tie in some math and create Tessellations, and down the road sixth grade will be sculpting plant and animal cells!


OH!  If you have been wildly searching your kiddo's back pack for their artwork, I have been hanging on to it.  There is so much neat stuff that I would like to display for everyone to see at this years Holiday Program and Art Show!!!  I will keep up on pictures so you know what we are up to and I promise this year for Christmas you will get LOTS of art!

Below are some of the amazing finished products for the week!