The kindergarteners were introduced to clay this year with this simple medallion project. Students rolled their clay into a ball, pressed it flat like a cookie, and added designs using buttons and popsicle sticks. After the clay was fired, we painted our medallions with bright colors and created a pattern with our beads on the necklace strings. We were very happy with the results!
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This year Switzer Elementary celebrated its 50th year of being a great school. To commemorate this, we had a big celebration in the beginning of May. Staff, former students, current students and their families came out to browse through the school and participate in different events. In the art room I set up several canvases that had stencils ironed onto them which people could paint on. Once the paint was dry I could peel the stencils off to reveal cool designs on the canvases. Now I am in the process of touching up the areas on the canvas where the stencils bled a little. These paintings will hang in the art room and in the hall at Switzer to commemorate its 50th year of being open. Thanks to all of the special helpers that came in the art room to paint!! Here are the paintings after peeling the stencils off. The set of three small canvases are for the art room and say "PEACE, LOVE, ART" with corresponding symbols on them. The larger painting is of an Eagle and says, "Switzer Eagles, 1963-2013". Stay tuned to see the finished paintings in the next couple of months.....
The kindergarteners created these beautiful butterflies after learning about the concept of symmetry where both sides of the design are the same. We worked really hard using shapes and lines to create symmetrical designs on our butterflies. After outlining our designs with black paint, we used bright colors to paint in the shapes and spaces symmetrically. We had a great turnout this year for the annual art show, ice cream social, and basket raffle. Families were able to view a "Hall of Art" featuring projects that focused on famous artists throughout history. Students learned about artists like Georgia O'Keefe, Leonardo DaVinci, Keith Haring, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, and many other amazing artists and then created a piece of artwork similar to the famous artist. Each class represented one artist. Also students were able to take their picture as the "Mona Lisa" and they could create a "mini masterpiece" at the art show. Students could take these home and display them on a popsicle stick easel.
The District Art Show was a great success! Thanks to all of the Switzer families that made it out that week to view the artwork. Students who were awarded special ribbons will have their artwork hanging in the UCS Board Office for a whole year, Congratulations!
It's that time of year again for our awesome "Art to Remember" fundraiser where you can purchase special keepsakes featuring your child's artwork. All the proceeds go directly to Switzer Students' art education by allowing me to purchase special art supplies for the art room such as clay, glaze, specialty paints, markers, colored pencils and much, much more! Order forms will be coming home soon and all orders will be due by FRIDAY, MARCH 21. Cash or check will be accepted, checks can be made out to SWITZER PTO. To see some of the special keepsakes that can be purchased or to learn more about "Art to Remember", you can visit their website HERE. Below you can see some of the amazing artwork that students have created for "Art to Remember." Kindergarten: Warm and Cool Sun FaceFirst Grade: fun, Colorful FishSecond Grade: Silly FrogsThird Grade: Artistic OwlsFourth Grade: Crazy ChameleonsFifth Grade: Optical Illusion DesignsSixth Grade: Student's Choice of SubjectThe Kindergarten students created these pictures after learning about Pop Art and artist Jim Dine. We used the qualities of bright colors, repetition, and an everyday object in our artwork to represent Pop Art. After painting six squares with different colors, the kindergarten students printed their hands six times on the squares. The last step was to paint, cut and glue six hearts onto their hands.
After reading the story, "The Missing Mitten Mystery", kindergarten students created these matching mittens. Our goal was to create a pattern on both mittens and paint it symmetrically. We used a black crayon to trace the mittens and draw our patterns. Then we used tempera cake paint to paint inside the mittens with bright colors. Our snowy background was created with a white oil pastel and glitter paint. The last two steps were to cut and glue the mittens down on top of two arms. We are warm and ready for winter!
In the month of December students at Switzer participated in a great fundraiser to help out a family. Students were able to donate a dollar to get a ticket. If their ticket was pulled at our assembly they got to throw a pie in the face of their favorite teacher. Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth grade students were great at helping me paint our special boards of an elf and Santa for "Pie Fest 2013".
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Mrs. W.
About Me: This is my sixth year teaching art at Switzer and I love creating awesome artwork with all of the students here. I see all of the K-6 students once a week for art class. Archives
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