2nd Grade Together We Can!

2nd Grade Together We Can!

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. 

Next Week!

Next week's Art of the Day will feature Salvador Dali. Want information about Dali?  Check out this website:  
 http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/


The Salvador Dali Museum is in St. Petersburg, Florida.  


The new rotation of classes happens on Wednesday, September 8th.  If your student is in my current art class, they will rotate to Arts and Humanities.  

First grade architects!

1st grader Architects during Fun Friday

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