2nd/3rd grade Recycled Fish

2nd/3rd grade Recycled Fish

Step 1: Students used various sizes and shapes of plastic bottles as the body of the fish and attached recycled cardboard for the fins. Daniel is hard at work!

Step 2: Hannah and Isaiah are using water/glue mixture to add different colored tissue paper to their fish.

Seeraj is in the process of adding color to his fish.

Step 3: Students used Model Magic clay to add the eyes to their fish.

Here are a few examples of our finished recycled fish projects!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.........It's Snowy Self-Portrait Time!

Allie's self-portait

Mina's self-portrait

2nd and 3rd grade students learned about self-portraits.  A self-portrait is when an artist paints or draws a picture of themselves.  Students looked at a variety of examples of self-portraits created by different artists such as; Vincent Van Gogh, Grant Wood, and Chuck Close.  It was the perfect time of year to create a picture of ourselves outside in the snow!  We used a collage method to do a winter background.  Look at these wonderful examples done by Mina and Allie!    

Turkey Time!



Students learned about warm and cool colors.

Students chose to color a coffee filter using only the warm or only the cool colors.

After we finished coloring, we sprayed the coffee filter with water and watched what happened when water mixed with marker. Wow, look at the result!

We then cut and glued the other parts of the turkey. Here is a warm colored turkey example.

This is a cool colored turkey example.

Jefferson Elementary Art Club

Jefferson Elementary Art Club

I am excited to head my first after school art club.  My first group of art club members are some of the fifth graders from Mrs. Geiss's class.  The artists for quarter 1 are: Livia, Zoe, Calee, John, Santo, and Jeremiah.  These students are currently working on a beautiful mural in the front hallway, leading up to the office.  Wow, this is already brightening up this hallway!  I can't wait to see it completed!

Fall Fun!

Fall Fun!

4th/5th grade classes are currently working on their fall tree projects.   I love creating fall trees with my students because there are no two trees in real life that look exactly the same and the same goes with the students' artwork.   After observing different types of trees, students spent one class period painting a silhouette of a tree.  The next class we added color to the trees, along with discussing warm and cool colors and how to mix colors using oil pastels.  Look at the beautiful results!

-Mrs. Collins