The kindergarten is learning about functional art forms, which means it’s art that can be used. They will learn that basket-making is a functional art form. Students will learn to draw a basket and then fill it with their favorite picnic supplies.
Here’s how baskets are made:
What will you pack in your basket?
Student examples:
Southside students, would you like to participate in an art contest? Entries are due near the start of school, so don’t forget!
Click the image to go to www.celebratingart.com
Why Enter???
Win Prizes
Receive Recognition
Each student may enter one art piece for each contest.
Must enter online. Do not mail art as it will not be entered in the contest or returned.
Contest deadlines:
December 10, 2014, extended February 5, 2015, April 9, 2015, August 22, 2015 ***This is the upcoming school year, but art can be turned in any time before August 22nd. If you’d like me to upload your work, please turn it in before Monday, August 17th.
Prizes: Ten winners in each grade division K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 for each contest and their art teachers will share over $5000 in prizes. Winners will also receive a free copy of the art book which includes their work. Other entries of merit will be invited to be published in our full color art book. Teachers who have 5 or more students published will receive a free copy of the book that features their students. Types of art: Any art that can have a still digital image. Paintings, computer graphics, sculptures, drawings, etc. Take a picture of your art. This is not a photography contest.
Best Art Tips: Make sure the art is yours and original- not traced or copied. If your artwork is on paper, it should be unlined paper. Lined notebook paper doesn’t photograph as well as solid-colored papers.
From: the PTA
To: PreK-5th grade families
Art to Remember order forms will be sent home on Wednesday, April 8th and must be turned in on Wednesday, April 15th. **5th grade families: if your student is going on the DC trip, please have your orders turned in before leaving Simmons on Monday, April 13th.
This fundraiser offers great, one-of-a-kind items AND supports our school. Below is information that will be included with your order form.
Kindergarten will learn that cultures all over the world wear masks for celebrations. Masks made for celebrations are a type of ceremonial art. Students will choose their favorite animals and create animal masks.
Which animal would you like to be? Why?
Here are some students’ examples:
Career week is coming up and the art room is getting ready for our next project, which combines art, career studies, and the International Book Project!
All K-5 students will create one career/college-themed bookmark to keep and another to donate to the International Book Project. All year, Simmons has been collecting books for the IBP and we’re going to donate bookmarks to go along with our book donations.
Check out what the International Book Project does! We’re going to each donate one bookmark to IBP. Think about what design you’d like to make on your donation bookmark.
For your second bookmark, you’ll create a bookmark to keep and take home. This bookmark will have a college/career theme. Which careers are you interested in? Which colleges would you like to attend? Why?
Of course, you could always check out the colleges that are near and dear to my heart!
The College of Wooster– Wooster, OH
One of my favorite things about Wooster is the bagpipers, always the bagpipers.
Wait, why does my college have bagpipers? Why do they wear kilts? What’s up with all the plaid? Why did I go to school in a place called Wooster (pronounced Wuster, not Wooooooster)? You can ask me or check out www.wooster.edu to find out more!
While we’re on the topic of music…my other alma mater has a band, too.
The Ohio State University– Columbus, OH
OSU is a great university with excellent academic opportunities and fun traditions, like this. I loved my time there. What’s a buckeye? Why is “dotting the i” such a big deal? Who is John Glenn? You can ask me or check out www.osu.edu to find out more!
All grades (preK-5) will be creating artworks for the PTA’s Art to Remember fundraiser. Art to Remember provides families with an easy way to have their students’ artwork turned into some pretty cool items, such as iPhone covers. If you love your students’ artworks and want to take them with you everywhere, you are in luck, that is exactly what Art to Remember helps you do!
Here’s a full listing of products that Art to Remember offers.
We’re painting our projects now!
The kindergarten is learning about contrasting colors. Contrast is the difference between two things. With color, contrast is the difference between light and dark colors. We will look at Morgan Russell’s artwork Synchromy Number 4, painted in 1914.
We will compare the colors used in Synchromy Number 4 to Starry Night, which we just learned about. How do contrasting colors show make something stand out?
On Tuesday, January 13th, Simmons held our Winter Fine Arts Night. We displayed over ONE HUNDRED artworks while Mrs. Bowmer’s Friday classes performed on their instruments. The artworks are currently on display, so please visit our 2015 Winter Art Exhibition.
The kindergarten will learn about Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. What kinds of lines, shapes, and colors do you see? What kinds of sounds do you think you’d hear if you were in this painting? What looks like it’s moving? What looks like it’s still? Movement makes artwork look exciting.
Students will learn about Van Gogh and his painting through a virtual tour of the Museum of Modern Art. Can you explore the museum and find Starry Night? http://www.moma.org/interactives/destination/
Here’s a mesmerizing view of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. There’s an interactive animated app.
The kindergarten is reading The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. We are learning how a positive attitude and trying new things are important for an artist. We are creating more than one Dot artwork, like the book’s main character, Vashti, does.
Ms. Baird's Art Class 
