Art Speaks

With Youth Art Month just days away I thought this video would be a good reminder to all why art matters!

Fourth and fifth grade art students all made self portraits on our class set of iPads. we are so fortunate at Fleming school to have a full set for a full class project. we used the free app called Brushes, which the kids quickly mastered over the weeks we worked on our self portraits. Please click on the "Digital iPad Portraits" link below the first picture to be directed to the slideshow that shows all of the steps used in the making of these portraits.

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Digital iPad Portraits

Kindergarten Hand Trees

Kindergarten and first grade students tried their hand at making hand trees, which we also decided looked like lollipop trees. We are still practicing our tracing, drawing and cutting skills and for this lesson there was a lot of gluing and layering as well.

Summit Snowmen...Looking Up and Looking Down!

K-3 students all had a hand at making snowmen that show perspective. This is a concept that young children love to discover and when they do you hear many Aha's around the art room and there is a sense of power and cracking a code of sorts when they learn these new skills. Kinders and first grade made cut paper snowmen "looking straight up" into their snowflake covered skies. In most images you don't even see the snowmen's eyes because of the angle.

Second and third grade made snowmen that were viewed form a bird's eye view so "looking down" and we discussed what you would see if you were a bird flying over a snowman looking directly down on them. In this case the snowman are also looking up to the sky, but being viewed from above instead straight on like the K/1 snowmen.

Summit Kindergarten and First Grade Shape Monsters

Kindergarten and first grade artists let their imaginations run wild when making shape monsters. Students had to first choose a geometric shape as the body of their shape monster, after that they could add anything to their custom creatures. This lesson focused on tracing, drawing, cutting and gluing. Some of our monsters had multiple eyes, while others had arms, legs horns and very sharp teeth. They can be a little scary so watch out!