Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Pablo Picasso Pumpkins
It's harvest time and the pumpkins are ready to go! Some of my first graders are ahead of schedule so they get to make an extra project. Since we've been studying the artist Pablo Picasso and his painting Weeping Woman, our project was to create a colorful, and kind of crazy, pumpkin. We used oil pastel and watercolor paints to create some awesome artwork. Here are a couple examples. 
Monday, October 26, 2009
New Art Contest
Sharpen your colored pencils, take pen in hand, and squirt some more paint on your palette! The 2010 River of Words Indiana Contest is in full swing!
Each year in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book, River of Words conducts a free international poetry and art contest for youth on the theme of WATERSHEDS. The contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express, through poetry and art what they discover. The contest is open to any child in the world, from 5-19 years of age. Older student must have not yet completed high school. There is no charge to enter.
River of Words is an excellent opportunity for science, art and literature classrooms to strengthen their skills and make connections between the watershed theme and their artistic talents.
The deadline for contest entries is December 1, 2009. Entries are first judged in the international RoW contest and winners are announced in April 2010. The Indiana state contest is sponsored by Indiana Project WET , the Environmental Education Association of Indiana (EEAI) and the Indiana Center for the Book. All Indiana poetry and artwork will be judged at the state level in May and winners will be announced in June 2010.
Entry forms and complete contest guidelines can be found at www.riverofwords.org/contest/index.html.
While I won't be doing this contest in my class, I would be glad to talk with your child about their ideas, drawings, or paintings for this contest!
Each year in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book, River of Words conducts a free international poetry and art contest for youth on the theme of WATERSHEDS. The contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express, through poetry and art what they discover. The contest is open to any child in the world, from 5-19 years of age. Older student must have not yet completed high school. There is no charge to enter.
River of Words is an excellent opportunity for science, art and literature classrooms to strengthen their skills and make connections between the watershed theme and their artistic talents.
The deadline for contest entries is December 1, 2009. Entries are first judged in the international RoW contest and winners are announced in April 2010. The Indiana state contest is sponsored by Indiana Project WET , the Environmental Education Association of Indiana (EEAI) and the Indiana Center for the Book. All Indiana poetry and artwork will be judged at the state level in May and winners will be announced in June 2010.
Entry forms and complete contest guidelines can be found at www.riverofwords.org/contest/index.html.
While I won't be doing this contest in my class, I would be glad to talk with your child about their ideas, drawings, or paintings for this contest!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Kindergartners fly away in a bubble!
This week all the kindergartners were lucky enough to meet the Bubble Farmer. This incredible farmer grows bubbles. The students really enjoy her presentation. The Bubble Farmer inspired our latest project. I posed the question to my students that if they could go anywhere in the world in a bubble where would it be? They gave answers like the park, grandma's house, Disney World, and the beach. 
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