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Teacher Name:
Carol Pineo
Phone:
413 584-5011
Email:
Courses:
Elementary Visual Art
Extra/Activities:
Chess Coach
Other:
If you read the Daily Hampshire Gazette you should notice the students' art work on the front page. Our school, along with a number of others in the area, has submitted weather drawings done by third grade students. Each day a student drawing accompanies the weather report and this year our students have already had nine published. Congratulations to our weather artists!
The elementary art room is a large, bright, inviting space where students learn about many different art styles, techniques, and materials. Here we love to create a product but the real objective is to learn the process. Scroll down to visit our art room and learn about some of our artwork.
DONATIONS WANTED!!!
If you would like to make a donation to the art room, we would love to have clean styrofoam trays and plastic lids! The lids needed are from milk or juice bottles, as well as lids about 4” or 5” in diameter from containers like margarine. We can also use men's shirts for paint shirts. Many thanks!
Henry Moore is the inspiration for the sixth grade unit on sculpting. Students are using wood carving tools and dense styrofoam blocks to create their own sculptures. Some are stylistic while others are trying to achieve greater realism. In either case they are all working well with tools and with each other and we're all looking forward to seeing the finished products.
Kindergarten students have just finished using colored craft sticks and lots of tacky glue to make treasure boxes with lids decorated with beads, jewels, and whatever goodies they found in the recycle area.
color theory From looking at a color wheel you probably know that there are three primary colors and three secondary colors but do you know how many colors there are in between? The fourth graders will tell you – many! They have been working with only primary color paint to create color strips showing subtle gradations in color between primary and secondary colors. Next they will work to create a whole color palette of tints, shades, tones, and neutrals. They are becoming real color experts! For their next project they will be cutting the strips into small pieces to create mosaics. Students are always excited to see just how many colors they are able to produce!
Grade two is practicing drawing skills.They use shapes to build birds then add details and surroundings. Part of the fun is doing the drawings with oil pastels on fuzzy paper.
Their last project was experimenting with Model Magic. They chose colors to add to white and blend into beautifully patterned balls, then formed these balls into pinch pots. In a related lesson, they chose different colors to again blend but this time they formed coils and made great colorful coil pots.
RFirst graders had a chance to try Model Magic, too. They each made a small colorful pinch pot then used the same blending technique to create a colorful blob then divide it up and use the segments to create very whimsical lizards. The lizards will be taking a very careful trip home this week.
Now they have moved to a new lesson and are learning about symmetry. We found lines of symmetry in some letters of the alphabet, worked on solving a tricky symmetry puzzle and are now cutting and drawing symmetrical shapes. I think we'll be cutting plenty of symmetrical hearts for our Valentine's Day projects.
More Model Magic! Grade 5 has been learning about armatures, then each student used recycled junk and thin masking tape to create an armature. Next they used Model Magic, rolled out 'as thin as skin', to cover the armature. As soon as the whole creature has a skin coating they begin adding details before painting their creation and adding any extras, like fur or feathers or even googly eyes. They have come up with some very interesting critters!
Those who are already finished are helping friends or using some of the left-over Model Magic to make pinch pots like the younger kids but with a twist. After creating the color blends and forming the pots, these older students are forming their pots into some pretty interesting shapes.
Our next unit is Native American Bead Weaving. Students have already learned about some of the history of beading and have begun graphing their own designs. As soon as we return from winter break we'll start learning how to use wooden looms to weave wristbands. Every year the fifth graders are amazed to learn how easily they can complete this project!
Grade 3 had been looking at trees a whole new way. We started by drawing a 'test' tree then we looked at trees without their leaves. We learned about how trees grow, and have been practicing drawing different types of trees using different media. Some of the favorite techniques are using oil pastel trees on flocked paper as well as using sea sponges to add leaves. Each artist has chosen a favorite tree to display in the hall and has take home a portfolio of how their tree drawings have progressed.
Now they've made small art journals to practice ways to create dimension in their drawings. The first things they worked on were foreshortening and overlap. Once they've had a chance to practice more we'll see how they are able to draw depth in their landscapes.
Learning chess is another activity students enjoy in the art room. It started with a number of unique chess sets brought in to demonstrate the artistry in these miniature sculptures. Students were intrigued by the styles but wanted to actually use the sets. Now students come in to practice during recess; grades 4 through 6 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, grade 3 on Wednesdays. We're pretty proud that our school was the 2004 grade 4 through 6 Western Massachusetts Scholastic Chess Champion.
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