Art Club Form Below is a link to the Art Club Sign-Up Sheet. If your student is interested in joining, and you didn't get a chance to fill out a sheet at open house, please print the form and you or your student may bring it to the art room once completed.
Click here for the Art Club Sign-Up Sheet. As I mentioned during open house, Art Club will begin in January, and will meet weekly. The meeting day is still to be determined. I will post more information as the second semester approaches.
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I'm happy to invite everyone to have a look inside the PKY Elementary Art Studio throughout the year at our new Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marrenpky. I'm also looking forward to inviting the families of the artists into the studio in person on Tuesday, September 6th, after the "welcome and introductions" at 5:30! 2nd-5th grade students have been creating special projects to display for open house which represent this year's school theme of "P.K. Yonge's Blue Wave Nation - Embracing Our Differences as We Build the Future." Hope to see you then! Today in art class, we had our first Wacky Wednesday with the Poole, Geiger, and Lanier 4/5 advisory groups. The artists and I decided to try out a choice-based art day, meaning each student had the opportunity to choose one art medium to work with, (with the ability to switch media midway through class time), and direct their own exploration, learning, and creativity. The available choices for today were drawing, (including pencils, markers, crayons, and pastels), modeling clay, art books, floor puzzles, and yes… painting.
Our elementary Blue Wave artists did an amazing job with this experiment, and greatly impressed me by staying focused on their art and leaving the studio as clean as they found it… (okay, maybe 95%-99% as clean as they found it, but that’s fantastic for our first try!). Thanks again to the Poole, Geiger, and Lanier advisory groups for doing such a great job today! I would like to thank all of our Elementary Artists for an amazing first week of art class!
This week in class, we worked on the following projects: K/1 artists warmed up for a year of creativity by drawing their heroes, their favorite places, and their choice of any creature. Mom and Dad were many artists' heroes, and Skate Station was a popular place. 2/3 artists got to create monsters with modeling clay. This activity was an exercise in "sketching" with clay, and great practice for working quickly and creatively. Students were given a prompt for sculpting a monster, such as "spikey monster," "flying monster," "food monster," or "eyeball monster." Students had several minutes to create their monster before smushing the clay back into a ball to start a new monster with a new prompt. 4/5 artists created large-scale collaborative drawings. Each table was covered in a large sheet of paper, and students were each given a marker to draw at their seat. Every few minutes, students were instructed to switch spots, and to add to the drawing they found in their new spot, or to begin a new drawing in any available space. I am extremely impressed by the creativity and cooperation we have had in the art room already. It's going to be a great year! Go Blue Wave, Mr. Marren |
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Visit our class Flickr page to see photos of student artwork. www.flickr.com/photos/marrenpky/ Archives
September 2017
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