Art Week Concludes 2019

Two weeks of art based on our Journey’s textbook story “The Dot” ended with inviting our parents and families to our own “McKinley Art Gallery” show.  So many students exclaimed that they would miss art week and our own personal art gallery images in our classroom at the end of the day.

This is always one of my favorite times during our year, but it is exhausting! It is all worth it though.  The families were exposed to great masterpieces in our classroom gallery, regaled with “The Dot” song with motions, walked the hallways enjoying the student created art with their child, read several pieces of writing written by their child, ate school lunch with them, and got to go to recess, too.  Everyone had a great time.  One grandmother that attended said “This is so much fun!  Thank you for inviting us.”  Art always brings joy in my opinion, and these past weeks are full of this emotion.

I am sharing some photographs of the past weeks activities and art.  I am sorry I did not keep up with the day-by-day previous blog posts.  This last post will have to do.  Thanks for being here and sharing in our fun learning!!

Art Week Day 3

Today we started off with some of Renoir’s colors.  I read a great quick book with several of his paintings.

We learned that artists pay attention to the light sources.  We studied several paintings and observed how the light changes part of the painting.

We studied the dots created yesterday with markers, coffee filters, and water.

 This led to the art vocabulary to describe our dots.  We added these words to our interactive floating art vocabulary word wall.

During math students learned about whole and half circles.  After completing our lesson, we learned more about Wassily Kandinsky.

 He love both art and music.  He came to believe that just painting with color and shapes was a form of art.  He began the art abstract movement.  We listened to some of his music and looked at much more of his art and other abstract pieces in our gallery.

 Later in the day the students created their own Kandinsky art based off his famous painting, “Squares with Concentric Circles.”

Math is art. Art is math.

 All the class completed this art piece so they continued writing a short narrative based off their sketch from yesterday.  Art week is well loved and enjoyed by all.

I wanted to add the portraits my students drew last week. They had to write a paragraph about a friend and draw their picture.  I think they turned out adorable.