Color Mixing Warm-Up: Handprints

For a warm-up to painting color wheels, a way to get students messy on their second day of class, and to familiarize them with the procedures of the art room we started with mixing colors on our hands! Fifth grade students worked on collaborative color wheels at their tables printing primary color and mixing and print secondary colors. Sixth graders printed primary, secondary, and intermediate colors on a large paper in the hallway. This was a new lesson we've never done before and was Miss Panaia's (Mrs. Teem's student teacher) great idea. Thanks Miss Panaia, we loved it!

Start of the 2014-2015 School Year

Hello Hillcrest parents and students! I would like to introduce myself to you all. My name is Molli Brown and I am one of the two art teachers at Hillcrest.

I am incredibly excited to share my knowledge and love of art in the classroom. Both fifth and sixth grades will be making a wide variety of projects incorporating various concepts they are learning in their other classes and more. We will also be taking a look at and making art from a historical and cultural perspective using a variety of media.

I will be using this blog as a means to communicate different things I might need the students to bring in over the course of the year so make sure to keep an eye out. I would recommend subscribing to the blog so you can get an email notification every time I create a post. You can do that by clicking on this symbolwhich is located near the top right of the page.

Again this year, all fifth and sixth grade students are required to bring in a folder for class. The folders do not need to be anything fancy, just as long as they have two pockets on the inside. Please, NO binders. The folders can be any color or pattern; they just need to bring them to art class for 10 points toward their grade. They will be given the first two cycles to bring one in.

I will be attending the 5th grade open house on Wednesday, September 3rd. If you’d like to see the art room, please feel free to stop down and check it out. I hope to meet a lot of the parents of the wonderful students I’ve already met.

I’m looking forward to a fantastic year!

-Miss Brown