Clay night is coming! Clay Night is an annual OMS event where students and an adult work on the creation of a clay pot together. This event is for 3rd GRADERS ONLY and is on Wednesday, February 19th, 2014. Admission is $1, which you can bring the night of (please not before). It runs from 6:30-7:30. Each student must be accompanied by a parent, guardian, or older sibling. I hope to see you there!
Our fifth graders recently finished their Dream Bedroom Diorama project. These are from Mrs. Tranter's class. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as the kids enjoyed creating them!
Time flies when you're having fun! As we approach Thanksgiving Break, here's a list of the projects Olive students are working on. As usual, Olive's kindergarten through second grade students can expect to bring home their artwork in January/ February, while our third though fifth graders bring home their work in June, with a few exceptions. Kindergarten: Kindergarten students finished up color mixing collages and are now working on monster drawings! First Grade: Our first graders finished up coral reef fish watercolor resists and are making "fall into winter" paintings! Second Grade: These students completed an Eric Carle inspired caterpillar collage and story and are working on a textured warm/cool color soft pastel leaf drawing! Third Grade: After finishing a pop-up frog project, third grade students are weaving paper baskets! Fourth Grade: Look in our last blog entry to see 4th grade students' Vincent van Gogh artwork. Presently, we are learning about Leonardo da Vinci and preparing to make self-portraits in a 3/4 pose, the same as the Mona Lisa. Our opening activity including reading Who Stole the Mona Lisa by Ruthie Knapp and going on a scavenger hunt to locate pieces of the "painting". Each piece contained a question on the back and was reassembled using our document camera to display the process for the whole class! Fifth Grade: Last but not least our fifth graders are working on an OMS favorite: dream bedroom dioramas! Previously, our student teacher Ms. Yankowski led the grade through an African-inspired batik project (pictures are in a previous post).
Our 4th grade students are finishing up their Vincent van Gogh drawings, created using oil pastel and a lot of work. I hope you enjoy the results. Miss. Katie Yankowski, our wonderful student teacher, has departed Olive the other week. She now is student teaching at Schaumburg High School. Miss. Yankowski taught every grade, so the first (or in some cases second) project your child takes home will be one she led them through. I hope your child enjoyed working with this very talented teacher.
I'm thrilled to unveil Olive's new frames! Don't they look classy? Move over Art Institute, you have some competition. In other news, Ms. Yankowski is busy putting up the awesome projects her 3rd graders made. Looking at the Haida tribe of the Pacific Northwest, students made "totem poles" consisting of stylized animal forms.
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