Third Grade Art & Music Presentation at BW

Our next art & music presentation will be Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 9:30 am in the gym.  We will have art on display all around our school, including in the school office.  Here is a preview:

 Faux Fossils by 3rd Graders

Winter 2017

Happy 2017!  Here's what we are working on:

4th and 5th Grade Value and 3D Still Life Drawing

Our K through 4th grade art selections will be exhibited at the LCVA 2017 student art show.  This is at Longwood University in Farmville.  The show starts February 19th at 2pm and ends March 26th.  All K and 1st grade art students just completed the Polar Bear Project!  

3rd Grade Designs Inspired by Ancient Greek Art

2nd Grade Faux Buffalo Skin Bags

Art Class in December

First graders and fifth grade art students are finishing up projects that feature symbols, including symbols of the USA.

All students worked hard on clay projects.  Please help your youngsters brainstorm how to bring home a clay project that is beautiful but breakable.  I suggest bringing a shoebox with a lid to school so we can wrap it up carefully.  The learning goals with clay include understanding that handmade artifacts can break.  Sometimes we just have to make another one.  We will do our best!

Third and fourth grade art students are also working on landscape or sky scape paintings.  Second graders are creating faux buffalo skin art.  Kindergarten art students are working on a Picasso style paint and collage project.  We will have lots to show in a few weeks!

Our 5th Grade Art & Music Collaboration

Monday, November 14, 2016

Today is the day we share our music and art accomplishments at BW with our presentations to our school community at 9:15 am and 6:30 pm.  Wow!  The 5th graders are doing impressive work!

Student Poster Finalists & Thank You PTO!

"Imagine a Day Without Water"

You can vote ( The deadline is Nov. 11th!) for the "Imagine a Day Without Water" poster contest winner at this website:Vote Here

or copy and paste the following link:


https://2016-iadww-fan-favorite.pgtb.me/Ts8Tf6

Some SES students have posters in the finals.  This means that the judges picked their poster out of over 400 entries!  Congrats to ALL students who made the effort to enter the contest.  It is a learning experience.

SKETCHBOOK/VISUAL JOURNALS for 4th and 5th Graders!

Many thanks to the PTO and SES and BW for supporting our learning in the arts by purchasing our sketchbook/journals.

More Fall Art Projects

Landscapes and More Landscapes!
Many 2nd through 5th grade

students created landscapes that promoted water conservation.  The following students submitted artwork to the Imagine a Day Without Water Poster Contest:
At BW, Larkin and Isabella; At SES, Henry, Lucy, Blake, Abigail, Mikey, Ella, Summer, Makenzie, Noah, Sophia, Giselle, Emma, Aubrey, Kaitlyn, Chris and Gavin.

Pre-K through 1st grade students created seasonal projects including landscapes, spider webs, spiders and pumpkins.

K and 1st Grade Digital Drawing Lesson

Awesome Art Classes

Today, October 4, 2016, we stared painting pictures of the outside.  This is called a landscape.  We did BIG brushstrokes.  We mixed primary colors.  We made sky and ground and we made the color green.  Last week we finished our Family Portraits.  Landscapes are different from portraits because they usually do not have people and portraits are about people.
This post was composed and written by the 2nd grade Spider Class.

We started paintings of the outside at night.  We did the moon and the ground.  We also did the sky.  First we drew the moon and then we painted the sky around the moon. We read a book about a little girl who wanted to play with the moon.  This helped us to see our choices for drawing the moon.  We mixed yellow and blue to make a little green.
This was written by the Sea Otter 2nd grade class in art.

Pintamos el horizon.

Some of us started painting our horizon lines and our landscapes.  Also some of us finished working on our self-portraits.  To add to our self-portraits we cut out shapes with pieces of color paper.  This is called collage or mixed-media.  We were using the colors to show our feelings.
This was written by the 5th grade Football class.

We are awesome because we have learned how to mix colors; because we use our imaginations to create different things.  We have learned to make self-portraits using mixed-media and using expressive colors and realistic shapes.  We used color papers to paste on different shapes for our self-portraits.  Before that we practiced drawing realistic facial features before drawing it on the portrait project.
This was written by the 5th Grade Bobcat class.