Art and Ambassador Agenda September 3-6, 2013

We are off to a great start in the art room. Please follow the art room blog. There is a link on the Holy Spirit School Webpage. It is in the staff area next to my name. It will give you the same agenda and will also include pictures of projects and students with their work!

If you notice any small plastic stencils among your child’s belongings, several are missing from the art room. They are about 2 1/2 inches square.

Grade K- Hand Dinosaurs 

Grade 1- Children's Museum Drawing Contest- Time Warp: 50 Years of Fear

Grade 2- Children's Museum Drawing Contest- Time Warp: 50 Years of Fear and Glue on Black Chalk Drawing

Grade 3- Can Cans..Commercial Art Drawings

Grades 4-5- Children's Museum Drawing Contest- Time Warp: 50 Years of Fear

Grade 6- Pastel Owls

Grade 7- Jumping Jacks Animation Drawings and Sketch Books

Grade 8- Copper Tooling And Altered Books

All 8th graders need to bring a hardbound book to art class for an altered book project. A thicker novel, text or cookbook will work well. Books are available at Goodwill for $1.99. Text books are very heavy but do work well. No church song books or Bibles please. All books will be permanently altered (ruined) and will no longer be usable for the original purpose. We will be cutting, glueing, painting, etc. in the book, much like a scrap book. Books need to be in the art room by September 3rd.

Students in grades 4 and 7 need to bring an empty cereal box to school for an art project.

Students in grade 5 need to bring in a fist size rock and $1.00 in an envelope marked with their name. This is for 2 different projects.

Ambassadors will meet from 7:40-8:25 Wednesday, September 4th. 8th grade Ambassadors should bring their white binders.

Mrs. Chappelow

WEEKLY AGENDA FOR ART AND AMBASSADORS-AUGUST 26TH THROUGH 29TH

Another great week in the art room! The students are doing well with our art room procedures. Kindergarten students had a good first week, coming to art 2 times! I have a lot of new names to learn but I will try to get them all soon!

Here are some special supplies or items needed by some class grades.

All students in grades 4 and 7 need to bring an empty cereal box to art on or before Thursday, September 12th.

All 8th grade students need a hard cover book to use for altered books in the art room on or before Monday, September 9th.

Kindergarten- Squiggle Squaggles and Hand Dragons. Mrs Catton's class will only have art once this week.

1st Grade- Finishing Self Portraits and Starting Haunted House contest drawings.

2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades Children's Museum Guild's Haunted House Drawing Contest entries.

6th Grade- Owls

7th Grade- Jumping Jack Animation projects

8th Grade- Copper Tooling

Ambassadors will meet Wednesday at 7:40 before Mass. 8th grade Ambassadors that still have binders, bring them with you.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs. Chappelow

Ambassador Agenda Change

Schedule change: Due to Student Council field trip, our first Ambassador meeting will be moved to next Wednesday, August 28th.

K-8 Weekly Art and Ambasadors Agenda for the week of 8-19 through 8-23

We are off to a great start in the art room. 

In the upcoming week, we will continue with procedures in all grade levels. I am working through them slowly to avoid information overload. Please note that like the rest of Holy Spirit, the art room is a bully free zone. I try to keep a close eye on all activities in my classroom but if there is ever a situation that your child makes you aware of, please feel free to contact me or Mrs. Amy Moran.

Grade K- Squiggle Squaggle drawings

Grade 1- Self Portraits

Grade 2- Blue Dog Drawings in the style of artist George Rodrigue

Grades 3-4-5- Children's Museum Drawing Contest- Time Warp: 50 Years of Fear

Grade 6- Kandinsky Style Circles in oil pastels and water colors

Grade 7- Jumping Jacks Animation Drawings

Grade 8- Copper Tooling 

All 8th graders need to bring a hardbound book to art class for an altered book project. A thicker novel, text or cookbook will work well. Books are available at Goodwill for $1.99. Text books are very heavy but do work well. No church song books or Bibles please. All books will be permanently altered (ruined) and will no longer be usable for the original purpose. We will be cutting, glueing, painting, etc. in the book, much like a scrap book. Books need to be in the art room by 9 a.m. on Monday, August 26th.

Ambassadors will meet from 7:40-8:25 Wednesday, August 21st. This will be our first meeting.

Mrs. Chappelow

First Day of Art

We are off to a great start here in the art room. I have seen both 4th grades, Mrs. Elliot's 1st grade and Miss Hill's 2nd grade.

4th grade is starting to think about the Indianapolis Children's Museum's Haunted House Drawing Contest. 2013 is the 50th birthday of the haunted house. This year the theme is "Time Warp: 50 Years of Fear". Students are to draw and color their original idea of a scary picture from any of the decades for the last 50 years. I know it seems early to think about Halloween but entries are due at the museum by September 11th! We are discussing the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and the 00's and what easily represents each decade. Your input would be appreciated!

First grade learned an art magic trick......press hard with crayon and color over with markers and the marker does not stick to the crayon....wax resist. This works especially well with white crayon and darker markers. (Just like coloring Easter Eggs!)

Second grade is learning about the artist George Rodrigue and his Blue Dog series. We worked on a Blue Dog drawing that we will color in the next class. Blue Dog is especially fun since he goes lots of places and does lots of things in George Rodrigue's paintings.

In our classroom, Blue Dog reminds us to clean our tables and the floor under our area! He is such a good dog!

Mrs. Chappelow