1st,2009-2010

WEEK OF MAY 17TH:
paint nests and take home (no glazing)

WEEK OF MAY 10TH:
Clay projects

WEEK OF MAY 3RD:
Paintings of the "BIG MACHINE" (May 10th: Clay Medallions)

WEEK OF APRIL 26TH:
Drawing and painting a roadrunner - take off from the Principal's book of the month.

WEEK OF APRIL 12TH:
Franz Marc's "The Little Blue Horse" - oil pastels and blenders

WEEK OF MARCH 15TH:
[|A prezi on THE ART TRUCK]When you click on this link, the presentation will appear. Your controls are in the bottom right hand corner. Thanks to Pam Johnson for this creation.

Week of March 15th:
Use this link (a presentation will be available on Monday) to prepare your class for the ART TRUCK experience on art night. I will have the strings and tags ready for you to create with your kids. K, 1st, and 2nd grade will do a tag as a class. 3rd-6th grades will have a tag for each student.

Week of March 8th:
Student collages: Lower grades - self portraits, Upper grades - theme based, roughing up any shiny surface papers and adding embellishments.
 * CRAFTSMANSHIP ENCOURAGED
 * MULTI MEDIUMS USED

Week of February 22nd:

 * Family postcards - Where would you love to be with your family??? Capture it.
 * Crayon and water color resist

Week of February 8th:
Mixing primary colors to make secondary colors, adding black and white to change value of color. Paint mushrooms for installation.

Weeks of January 25th and February 1st:
Welcome [|Matthew Jones], our Artist in Resident for the next two weeks. Here are some great sites to use in your classrooms the week you will not be coming to Matthew: [|Albright Knox Art Games] - great to use with direct instruction/interaction and a projector for lower grades Origami Folding instruction videos I have downloaded some origami folding videos for the wiki. The first one is a must do for all grade levels - the younger the kids, the larger square of paper you should use. For eMINTS classrooms....An interactive [|Sumi painting] program where students can practice with tools, strokes, and color - a product from this would be great for art night. Lower grades could do this with whole class - would be fun

WEEK OF JAN. 11TH:
Marking paper for origami prep

WEEK OF JAN. 4TH:
Gesture drawing of human body, charcoal, need sketchbooks

**WEEK OF DEC EMBER 14TH:**
Santa hat Stitch Pattern Santa Suit [|Webquest] =WINTER FUN:= SNOWMAN GLYPH [|SNOW SITES] [|Snow Crystals] [|Frosty Jokes] [|Snowdays] [|Make a Flake] Clip of the [|Nutcracker] [|Folding and making a 6 pt. snowflake]

**WEEK OF DECEMBER 7TH:**

 * Creating a tin ornament

**WEEK OF NOVEMBER 30TH:**

 * PAINTMAKING WITH COLORED CHALK
 * MAKING SECONDARY COLORS
 * PAINTING cards

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9TH:
Watercolor Fish:

WEEK OF OCTOBER 12TH:
[|Witch Hats] AND GHOSTS WITH SHAPER PAPER

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14TH:

 * BRING ROCKS IF YOU HAVE THEM FROM LAST CLASS
 * PAINT ROCKS
 * CREATING LINE DESIGNS WITH CONTOUR LINE DOODLING
 * DECORATE ROCKS WITH BASIC SHAPE PATTERNS USING CONTOUR LINE DESIGN

WEEK OF AUGUST 31ST: "A line is a dot that went for a walk"

 * Bring portfolios
 * Finish "Warm Hands, Cool Kids"
 * Line design on rock - we will prepare our rocks for this

WEEK OF AUGUST 24TH:

 * Bring portfolios
 * "Warm Hands, Cool Kids"
 * Lesson on color - review primary colors and explore line
 * Intro to warm and cool colors

WEEK OF AUGUST 17TH:

 * FINISH PORTFOLIOS WITH COLOR & SHAPE
 * INTRODUCE/REVIEW ELEMENTS OF ART
 * EXPLORE WITH PAPER AND TEXTURE RUBBINGS

WEEK OF AUGUST 10TH:

 * ART ROOM PROCEDURES
 * MAKE STUDENT PORTFOLIOS AND A CLASS PORTFOLIO
 * PERSONALIZE PORTFOLIOS