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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Best Start to School Ever!

Hello Maple Glen Parents,
Is it really October?  Whew!  This year is already moving so fast.  I hope your family has adjusted well to the new school year.  I have made many adjustments having six kindergarten classes!  We also had over seventy new students transfer in to our school so there are many new faces.  I will be sharing the children's lessons with you on this blog.  Please feel free to contact me if you ever have any questions or concerns.

Most sincerely,
Ms. Siminski

Kindergarten-The children have been learning about the many kinds of lines that artists use.  They learned about the artist Jonathan Lasker who uses only lines in his artwork!  Next, they drew a cityscape after reading Harold and the Purple Crayon by:  Crocket Johnson.  Harold used many different kinds of lines to draw his city.  This week we are watching a movie about the many different jobs an artist can have.

First Grade began their year tracing all kinds of maple leaves.  We colored the lines of our leaves with a thick stroke of color.  We reviewed our painting procedures as we added color to our leaves.  You can see many of our paintings displayed as you enter our building and outside of the art room. We learned that our school is called Maple Glen becuase there are so many maple trees around our school! 

Second grade began their school year reviewing lines and shapes as the foundation for drawing.  George Rodigue's "Blue Dog" was our subject matter.  Oh how we all love Blue Dog!  The children 's artwork is on display outside the art room. 

Third grade began their school year learning about book-making as an art form.  I shared several examples of different kinds of books with them and then they created a pocket, accordian book to hold  their individual pages.  Their pages are hang tags.   They will write about their third grade art experience throughout the year and bring their books home with them on the last day of school! 
     We've already starte our second lesson.  We are studying Jonathan Callicutt.  He is an American, comtemporary, artist living in Georgia.  His work is very patriotic and mixed media.  We studied the September 11th attack during its eleventh anniversary.  This day is history to our children. You and I remember the day all too clearly. 

Fourth grade began their year learning about the French artist Claude Monet`.  We have studied his water lily paintings.  I remember my absolute shock when I saw my first Monet` water lily painting.  It took up on entire wall in the museum.  I was amazed!  Our water lily drawings have been rendered in crayon.  I purchased some Mixed-up-Color crayons a few years ago.  They allow us to really give our artwork an Impressionistic look.

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