Off to a Great Start!

The 2019-2020 school year is off to a great start!

 Students in fourth and fifth grade have started the year by creating projects for International Dot Day - a day to celebrate creativity. I read them the book, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and we discussed the importance of trying or as the book says, "just make a mark and see where it takes you." Then fifth graders water colored painted a background around a circle. Currently, they are working on adding different kinds of lines and shapes in the circle (their dot). Fourth graders used washable markers to "tie-dye" a coffee filter, which is their dot. Currently, they are working to turn their coffee filter dot into something else, like a wheel of a car or a pizza pie.

Sixth grade students are working on creating Art Trading Cards for the 5th Annual MiniMatisse Global Artist Trading Card Swap. The swap is organized by an art teacher in Minnesota and open to only 100 schools. I was lucky enough to get CHCS into the swap. Sixth graders are making two cards, one to keep and one to trade. I will send all the cards to the Mrs. Hahn in Minnesota and she will divide them up to send to different schools all over. We don't know which school will get our cards and we don't where the cards we are getting back are coming from.

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Great Year So Far!

This year has flew by and we have done some amazing projects in the art room! Don't forget to follow my class instagram, mrslaplanteartclass

In September, I found out that two of my students that submitted their Audubon Inspired Bird Drawings to the Taking Flight: Youth Art Exhibit at the Museum of American Bird Art were selected to have their drawings in the exhibit. Their artwork was on display from November 2018 - March 2019.  Below is the students with their artwork that was on display.

This year all the Specials teachers have recess enrichments. I have been offering seasonal arts and crafts, which has been a lot of fun.

I planned a field trip with the 4th grade team to take the 4th graders to Magic Wings, where students completed field sketches of the butterflies. we then used the field sketches to create oil pastel close up drawings of the butterfly.

Fifth grade learned about color theory and different color schemes. They created paintings that sampled four different color schemes. They made one drawing that they transferred to a large square paper four times. Lasatly, each section was painted with a different color scheme.

Sixth grade students carved their own printmaking blocks. Then created test prints and finally created small editions of final prints. This project was a challenge because the students had never used the carving tools before, but I think they rose to the challenge and made awesome prints.