Showing posts with label byck elementary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label byck elementary. Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Byck CD Coming Soon!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Carolyn Braden's eHow Article: Connect Art With Other Subjects!
Click the link below to see my article that gives you ideas on how to connect some famous works of art to other subjects.
http://www.ehow.com/info_7936525_art-pictures-children.html
http://www.ehow.com/info_7936525_art-pictures-children.html
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
We're Back!
Back in the classroom again. It's a new year and we have many new projects on the horizon. My current fifth grade is finishing up their time with our Artist in Resident, Caroline Zama. The entire project will be a mural (hopefully to be placed in the school lobby) made up of clay tiles depicting the students self-portraits. The center of the mural will be the Byck sun with the Byck cougar. The symbols will be made up of tiles that depict the students view of Byck Elementary. The fifth grade will then complete their Graffiti Arts oil pastel art and then they will visit Egypt by creating pop art pharaoh plaster masks.
My third grade gets an Artist in Resident too! I am happy to announce I received the VSA grant I applied for. http://www.vsarts.org/
Louisville artist Michelle Amos will working with my third grade students to create 3-D Native American Kachina dolls. That residency starts on January 24th.
My kindergarten is about to create Japanese Carp windsocks. We will make them out of paper, watercolor, and tissue paper. They recently completed their Sole People, which was a printmaking project that introduced how primary colors make secondary colors when mixed correctly. Through that project, they learned about Jan Ernst Mazeliger. He was an African American inventor that created the sole lasting machine. (A machine that was created to attach the sole to the body of shoes).
Each of my first grade classes will be working on different projects to go along with a 1st grade musical we will showcase in the spring. They will be helping to make background scenes, props, and more for the musical.
My second grade is working on a weaving unit. We learn about Kente cloths and create patterned paper weavings. We then move on to creating yarn weavings on a loom. They will also create a clay cube head during their visit to the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (field trip!) The trip is scheduled in February.
Fourth grade is involved this year with a large unit on self-portraits. They are exploring who they are by creating 3 self-portraits that are all created in different media. The first is an oil pastel portrait, the second is a photo collage portrait, and the third is a 3-D carved cube portrait. If time permits, they will also create a wire armature of themselves. Discover classes start soon. This rotation, classes will be for K-2nd grade. My class will be teaching the importance of muraling, prop, and costume design in theater, television, and movies. In this class, students will be creating a background for the 1st grade show, a prop, and a costume.
So, as you can see, we have many things going on in the art room. Students in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade are all working on writing about art. After each project, students are taking an assessment quiz and creating a personal narrative, a letter, or an evaluation of their art. We are a truly busy art class!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
New Rotation Starts on Tuesday and Update!
We are finishing up another rotation of classes. The classes I have now (1, 2, 4, 5) have finished up their License to Vote contest entries. The selection of who will represent Byck at the LTV Contest Finale in the spring is now underway. The two entries selected will be finalists and their art will go to compete with other JCPS elementary students.
5th grade is now working on Graffiti Arts: The good, the bad, and the beautiful.
4th grade is now working on The Three Me's, a Portrait Unit. They will create Self Portraits in Oil Pastel, Collage, and 3-D Sculpture.
2nd grade is now working on When Pigasso Met Mootise: Portraits of the Artists. (Guided Drawing)
1st grade is now working on The Rainbow Fish Portraits. (Guided Drawing)
Kindergarten has finished their Watch Me Draw projects and are now working on their Shape Mosaics. They will then create Piet Mondrian Collages with primary colors, shapes, and lines.
All classes have been working on their "I Can....." statements. At the end of every class, students state what they can tell me about what they learned during the class periods. They use their art vocabulary when telling me their statements. We are also doing a multiple choice quiz orally as part of their end of class review. The students are so smart! Every student raises their hands when we do our reviews.
The end of the rotation is on Monday and the whole rotation of classes starts over on Tuesday. I am excited to welcome Caroline Zama, our Artist in Resident! She will be working with my fifth graders for a week to create clay tiles. Each student will make 2 tiles. One tile will be a low relief self-portrait of the student, and the second tile will be a mural background piece. All the tiles will be put together in a Byck inspired mural when the residency is complete. Ms. Zama will be working with all 5th graders on this project, as their classes rotate to art. We are doing the residency via the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. I am working to get another residency going for the 3rd grade. If my grant application is approved (fingers crossed!) students in the 3rd grade will work with Louisville artist Michelle Amos to create Native American Kachina Dolls.
After the new year, I have planned a field trip for the second grade. With funds from our wonderful Fund for the Arts 5x5 Grant, the students will go to the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, tour the museum, eat lunch there, and create a 3-D clay cube project.
My student teacher, Lauren Williams, will be finishing her time up in my room on December 1st. She taught this rotation of classes and had done wonderfully! She has loved working with your talented students. Wish her luck in her future goal of being an art educator!
So many great things going on this year! Check back soon for more pics and updates!
5th grade is now working on Graffiti Arts: The good, the bad, and the beautiful.
4th grade is now working on The Three Me's, a Portrait Unit. They will create Self Portraits in Oil Pastel, Collage, and 3-D Sculpture.
2nd grade is now working on When Pigasso Met Mootise: Portraits of the Artists. (Guided Drawing)
1st grade is now working on The Rainbow Fish Portraits. (Guided Drawing)
Kindergarten has finished their Watch Me Draw projects and are now working on their Shape Mosaics. They will then create Piet Mondrian Collages with primary colors, shapes, and lines.
All classes have been working on their "I Can....." statements. At the end of every class, students state what they can tell me about what they learned during the class periods. They use their art vocabulary when telling me their statements. We are also doing a multiple choice quiz orally as part of their end of class review. The students are so smart! Every student raises their hands when we do our reviews.
The end of the rotation is on Monday and the whole rotation of classes starts over on Tuesday. I am excited to welcome Caroline Zama, our Artist in Resident! She will be working with my fifth graders for a week to create clay tiles. Each student will make 2 tiles. One tile will be a low relief self-portrait of the student, and the second tile will be a mural background piece. All the tiles will be put together in a Byck inspired mural when the residency is complete. Ms. Zama will be working with all 5th graders on this project, as their classes rotate to art. We are doing the residency via the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. I am working to get another residency going for the 3rd grade. If my grant application is approved (fingers crossed!) students in the 3rd grade will work with Louisville artist Michelle Amos to create Native American Kachina Dolls.
After the new year, I have planned a field trip for the second grade. With funds from our wonderful Fund for the Arts 5x5 Grant, the students will go to the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, tour the museum, eat lunch there, and create a 3-D clay cube project.
My student teacher, Lauren Williams, will be finishing her time up in my room on December 1st. She taught this rotation of classes and had done wonderfully! She has loved working with your talented students. Wish her luck in her future goal of being an art educator!
So many great things going on this year! Check back soon for more pics and updates!
Friday, October 29, 2010
First Grade Eagle!
they did so great! What talents my students have!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
New Rotation and Update September 28th, 2010!
It's already time for a new rotation of classes! My new group starts tomorrow, Wednesday, September 29th. If your student is in art right now, they will rotate to Arts and Humanities tomorrow.
During this rotation here are some things we recently started and will finish when this rotation returns to art:
Fifth grade is starting on their Graffiti Arts: The Good and The Bad project. We are using oil pastel techniques to make our graffiti appear like it was sprayed on our paper.
Third grade is starting on their Georgia O'Keefe geometric/organic flower project.
Kindergarten started working with patterns. They met Patty the pattern turtle and are working to color her shell in an ABAB pattern using warm or cool colors.
First grade is finishing their Guided Drawing of the Rainbow Fish. They will begin their ideas for their upcoming Oil Pastel Symmetrical African Mask project.
Second grade is learning about geometric and organic shapes. They learned that Pablo Picasso loved geometric shapes and Henri Matisse loved organic shapes with the book When Pigasso Met Mootisse. They will be learning to draw portraits using ideas from this book.
Fifth grade will have an artist in residence working with them starting in November. They will be working on tiles for a tile mural installation for Byck Elementary. The project will be created with the help of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
I am currently working on a grant to have Michelle Amos, a Louisville artist, to come work with my third graders on making Native American Kachina Dolls.
Discover classes start on Friday, October 8th. My class this year is called Advanced Art: Think Big! We will be doing very large scale paintings and other advanced art projects.
I will be updating again soon about my new addition to my class. I have a student teacher coming to work and learn in my classroom. She is from Murray State University. She will be in my classroom October 4th through early December.
During this rotation here are some things we recently started and will finish when this rotation returns to art:
Fifth grade is starting on their Graffiti Arts: The Good and The Bad project. We are using oil pastel techniques to make our graffiti appear like it was sprayed on our paper.
Third grade is starting on their Georgia O'Keefe geometric/organic flower project.
Kindergarten started working with patterns. They met Patty the pattern turtle and are working to color her shell in an ABAB pattern using warm or cool colors.
First grade is finishing their Guided Drawing of the Rainbow Fish. They will begin their ideas for their upcoming Oil Pastel Symmetrical African Mask project.
Second grade is learning about geometric and organic shapes. They learned that Pablo Picasso loved geometric shapes and Henri Matisse loved organic shapes with the book When Pigasso Met Mootisse. They will be learning to draw portraits using ideas from this book.
Fifth grade will have an artist in residence working with them starting in November. They will be working on tiles for a tile mural installation for Byck Elementary. The project will be created with the help of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
I am currently working on a grant to have Michelle Amos, a Louisville artist, to come work with my third graders on making Native American Kachina Dolls.
Discover classes start on Friday, October 8th. My class this year is called Advanced Art: Think Big! We will be doing very large scale paintings and other advanced art projects.
I will be updating again soon about my new addition to my class. I have a student teacher coming to work and learn in my classroom. She is from Murray State University. She will be in my classroom October 4th through early December.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
New Rotation of Classes!
We rotated classes today, so your student may be in a new related arts class. The students I just had rotated into Arts and Humanities today.
If your student rotated into my art class, here is what we are working on this week:
5th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st grades: Learning about "Art Store", learning the expectations and procedures of the art classroom, making "rainbows and dreams" drawings, making bank envelopes for "Art Store", reading Over the Rainbow by Judy Collins, and beginning sketches for our next project that finishes this sentences "Together we can.......".
Kindergarten: Reading What Makes a Rainbow, making "rainbow and dreams" drawings, reading The Dot, making "dot/circle" drawings. On Friday, kindergarten students will be going to an assembly called "Mime Time" during their art class time.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Learn about your student's upcoming projects!
This week our Art of the Day slides are dedicated to learning all about William Wegman. He's a wonderful photographer that is mostly famous for taking photos of his very well trained Weimaraners. Interested in learning more about William Wegman? Check out his website at http://www.wegmanworld.com/home.html
How Art of the Day works:
We discuss a particular artist work at the beginning of every class. Through this we learn how to talk about art. I am teaching my students to voice their opinion about various works of art while using art vocabulary. Next week, we will be learning all about Pop Artist Alex Katz. Want to learn about Katz before your student? Check out his website: http://www.alexkatz.com/
Some of last year's Art of the Day artists: Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Annie Leibovitz, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keefe, Chuck Close, Wassily Kandinsky, and Vincent Van Gogh.
Here's what your students are working on now and what's in the works for their next projects:
Classes I currently have are working on the River Sweep Poster Contest. With this project we are learning about the vocabulary line, shape, color, space, foreground, middleground, background, and media. We are also learning how to keep our rivers clean through not littering. Some students works will be selected to represent Byck in the contest. If chosen as a Grand Prize winner by contest officials, students win a $500.00 U.S. Savings Bond plus state-wide recognition. There will also be 12 runner-ups selected by contest officials. The prize for runner-up is a $50.00 U.S. Savings Bond plus state-wide recognition.
Upcoming projects after the River Sweep Posters:
5th: Graffiti Arts: A portrait of all about me!
4th: 2 Sided Self-Portraits
3rd: Georgia O'Keefe Flowers
2nd: Pigasso and Mootisse Portraits
1st: The Rainbow Fish Portraits.
K: I do not currently have a kindergarten class. However, when I have my first group we will start by working on projects like The Dot (shape project), See If You Can Draw, and Paper Mosaic Shapes, Pink! A Penguin Project.
Thanks for checking out this week's blog!
Sincerely,
Carolyn Braden
How Art of the Day works:
We discuss a particular artist work at the beginning of every class. Through this we learn how to talk about art. I am teaching my students to voice their opinion about various works of art while using art vocabulary. Next week, we will be learning all about Pop Artist Alex Katz. Want to learn about Katz before your student? Check out his website: http://www.alexkatz.com/
Some of last year's Art of the Day artists: Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Annie Leibovitz, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keefe, Chuck Close, Wassily Kandinsky, and Vincent Van Gogh.
Here's what your students are working on now and what's in the works for their next projects:
Classes I currently have are working on the River Sweep Poster Contest. With this project we are learning about the vocabulary line, shape, color, space, foreground, middleground, background, and media. We are also learning how to keep our rivers clean through not littering. Some students works will be selected to represent Byck in the contest. If chosen as a Grand Prize winner by contest officials, students win a $500.00 U.S. Savings Bond plus state-wide recognition. There will also be 12 runner-ups selected by contest officials. The prize for runner-up is a $50.00 U.S. Savings Bond plus state-wide recognition.
Upcoming projects after the River Sweep Posters:
5th: Graffiti Arts: A portrait of all about me!
4th: 2 Sided Self-Portraits
3rd: Georgia O'Keefe Flowers
2nd: Pigasso and Mootisse Portraits
1st: The Rainbow Fish Portraits.
K: I do not currently have a kindergarten class. However, when I have my first group we will start by working on projects like The Dot (shape project), See If You Can Draw, and Paper Mosaic Shapes, Pink! A Penguin Project.
Thanks for checking out this week's blog!
Sincerely,
Carolyn Braden
Friday, August 6, 2010
Carolyn Braden Says "Welcome to Braden's Art Stars!"
Welcome to my new blog, Braden's Art Stars! This blog will be used to document all the wonderful artwork my students will be working on this year. We have a great year ahead of us. This will be my fourth year teaching at Byck, and I am looking forward to seeing all my wonderful, talented students. I love that I can start off this year knowing how much my students know. They are all so smart and know so much about art! After teaching them the past three years, I know their artistic abilities. Due to them always meeting the challenges I put in front of them, I know we will soar in some more advanced projects I have planned for them this year.
This year I will be taking photos of the student's projects in the making and posting them to this blog site. Bookmark this page on your computer so you can check back often to see what my students are working on.
http://bradensartstars.blogspot.com/
Sincerely,
Carolyn Braden
Art Teacher, Byck Elementary
Louisville, KY
This year I will be taking photos of the student's projects in the making and posting them to this blog site. Bookmark this page on your computer so you can check back often to see what my students are working on.
http://bradensartstars.blogspot.com/
Sincerely,
Carolyn Braden
Art Teacher, Byck Elementary
Louisville, KY
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