Ms. Melissa helped us with this project.
It started to come together!
The final product below!!
Thank you to parent Ms. Melissa, Mr. Tait and Ms. Crawley (my student teacher) for all your help!
I just had to put out a huge thank you to Ms. Lisa (Lilly's mom) and Ms. Galen (Oliver's mom) again for going out and getting me various cans of spray paint for our stenciling class with 5th graders. I also want to send a huge thank you to all the parents who wrote me asking if I still needed spray paint. Wow!! I love my Murch parents. I do not take all your support for granted....not for a minute. Have a wonderful weekend!
Ms. Cutelis brought in her juicer to make natural dyes...children brought the vegetables and the fruits.
Here is carrot juice...want to paint?
Children used the juicer to make their dyes
We labeled each dye and used them to color our butterfly paintings
Some of the dyes have a very strong smell.....like the onion...
A lot happens during School Garden Week, and we want you to share all of
the amazing activities and events that you take part in! What captures your
attention in your school garden? Maybe it’s the insects buzzing around the butterfly
garden, or your veggie garden in full production, or a group of your friends building a compost bin or planting winter cover crops. Whatever it is, please snap a picture of what you or others are doing during School Garden Week, and share it with us.
This year there are two ways you can share your photos: Participate in the Photo Contest, or contribute to the Photo Journal.
Categories
One winning photo from each group will be chosen.
Category I: Kindergarten-2nd Grade
Category II: 3rd-5th Grade
Category III: 6th-8th Grade
Category IV: 9th-12th Grade
Follow these three easy steps that could lead you to fabulous prizes!
Photo submission deadline is September 29th at 5 p.m. A panel of judges will
select the winners from each category and an announcement will be made at the closing event on Friday, September 30, 2011. Teachers with students who submit photos are encouraged to attend this event. Visit our Events page for details. Prizes will be delivered to each winner the following week.
Prizes
Each winner will receive:
Get Inspired! Check out some of last year’s winners
This is Strathmore’s upcoming art exhibition, Building Bridges, Not Fences. The show opens September 24 and is all about photography. The exhibition is free and open to the public. They are hosting a number of kid-friendly events – like camera-making workshops, lumen printing, pinhole photography and art tours:
Strathmore Fine Art Presents
BUILDING BRIDGES, NOT FENCES
Artists explore journey from darkroom photography to advent of digital image-making;
and reveal narratives that photojournalism creates about distant global cultures
here are some sample programs you might want to particpate with the kids:
1. On Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 10:15 a.m., a Children’s Talk & Tour invites children to explore the exhibition and exercise their creativity through a hands-on arts activity. At 1 p.m., adults learn about the artwork in the exhibition from curator Harriet Lesser during the Art Talk & Tour. Both events are free. Reservations are required for the Children’s Talk & Tour and can be made by calling (301) 581-5109.
2. For children and families, Nancy Breslin will teach a camera-less photography workshop on Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 10-11:30 a.m. Children will learn how to make pictures without a camera by creating their own cyanotype images. Breslin will also teach a more advanced class for adults on camera-less photography where students will study and create their own cyanotype and lumen prints from noon-3 p.m., also on October 22.
3. UMBC Visual Art Professor Chris Peregoy will teach a Pinhole Camera Workshop on Saturday, October 29, 2011 from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Students will learn how to make a camera using ordinary household objects, such as a cookie tin, suitcase, or even a coconut, to create pinhole camera and use them to make photographic images.
4. Children ages 7-11 will get the chance to develop their skills in photography in the PhotoKids: Take Your Best Shot! class series. Held for three Saturdays, September 24 and October 1 and 15, 2011 from 10 a.m.-noon, each session, taught by photographer Lisa Murphy, will include a directed photo shoot and formal instruction on composition and lighting, as well as a slideshow exhibition for family and friends. Each child will leave the three-session course with a finished photo album of their best shots.
for more info click here.
While living in New York I was doing a lot of wedding photography. These are postcards with my NY-based business info on them now being repurposed into sculpting materials. The kids had a wonderful time creating various 3D sculptures.
These are my first few displays of the year. I try really hard to both show great respect for the work children do by the way I display the kids' work but I also aim to describe the process to the community as a whole.
Here is an example of one of our watercolor explorations. These paintings took 2 classes. During the first class children explored the wet-on-wet techniques using soft bristled watercolor brushes. During the second class children used smaller brushes and metallic watercolors to add 'smaller marks' on top of their paintings while practicing their wet-on-dry techniques.
In the art room most kids stand while working so they have a better view of their work from above. Kids in the art room work very well independently.
A stencil designed by a 5th grade artist....to be used on our abstract insect part mural.
Kids LOVEEEEEE all things metallic.....please come to the stairway by the art room to see the wonderful paintings the second graders made.
Detail brushes are used to make small marks. Artists purposely choose their brushes depending on what type of marks they want to make.
