Fifth Grade Onomatopoeia Collages & Videos

Fifth grade has been creating onomatopoeia collages inspired by artist Roy Lichtenstein and his artwork titled 'Whaam!' pictured above. Some students have also had the opportunity to create videos adding sound and working with the 'Ken Burns Effect' of zooming in and out on their artwork in the video. This is just another amazing thing we are able to do now that we have five classroom iPads! Here's a link to my dropbox folder where I've been uploading them. Enjoy!  :)

Onomatopoeia Videos

Instagram! @hillcrestartroom

I've decided to create a Hillcrest Instagram for my classroom and all the amazing things the kids have been creating here. I know that many of my students are already on Instagram and not all of the content on there is all that amazing. So, I've decided that adding as much artwork to my Instagram will hopefully help to make what they're seeing on Instagram more positive. Students so far are so proud to see their projects displayed on my page and they can comment and share it with their friends.

I also understand that many parents do not allow some students to use Instagram. We discussed this in class and the students know they need to respect their parents' wishes. I promise to still try and share as much as I possibly can via this blog so students that don't have an Instagram account can still see our classroom's artwork online. Don't forget about all the art on Artsonia too!!

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5th Grade Hand Line Design Project

Fifth grade students used their creativity and knowledge of line to create this project. They traced their hands and created various line designs within each section of the hands using thick and thin sharpies. They also had a few choices for the background that they completed. These projects were easy and they are amazing works of art!

Check those that were uploaded to Artsonia here: 5th Hand Line Design

5th Grade Color Mixing Project

Fifth graders created amazing paintings where they focused on their color mixing. They used only the three primary colors: yellow, red, and blue, to create all three secondary colors and all six intermediate colors. The result was amazing! Most students also published their artwork to Artsonia. Check out the projects here: Overlapping Shapes/Color Mixing

Objective(s)—Students will be able to....

• Create a unique composition using overlapping shapes.
• Review/ recall mixing primary colors to create secondary colors.
• Mix primary and secondary colors to create intermediate colors.
• Neatly paint all colors  (p, s, i) from color  wheel within designated shapes in design.
• Create 13 different patterns using lines and shapes.

6th Grade Radial Color Wheels

Sixth grade students are finishing up their radial color wheel project. They designed and painted them with hues, tints, and shades all the primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. Here are the project objectives:

Objective(s)—Students will be able to...

• Identify and create a design with radial symmetry.
• Identify the primary colors and mix those to create the secondary and intermediate colors.
• Identify what a hue is.
• Identify and create tints and shades of various colors.
• Neatly paint a radial design as a color wheel with a hue, tint, and shade in the 12 colors of a color wheel.

Most students published their painting to Artsonia using our new classroom iPads! Check out the pics here: 6th Grade Radial Color Wheels.

Students also used two different apps to manipulate a photo of their color wheel and they also uploaded them to Artsonia. The apps were Percolator and Wordfoto.

In Percolator students adjusted the style of their color wheels. See the projects here: Percolator Color Wheels.

In Wordfoto students used a minimum of 5 words to describe their project and then superimposed those words onto their painting. See the projects here: Wordfoto Radial Color Wheels.

Artsonia!

Artsonia is a website that I am trying out for the first time this year with my students. So far, it's pretty awesome. I created a username for each student and an email has been sent to each parent (as long as one is on file in Skyward) asking for their account to be activated. Most of my students' have activated accounts. This week I had students begin to upload their artwork to the site. They can still upload it even without parent permission on the account, it simply won't be public on the web.

Artsonia is basically a permanent online digital portfolio of student artwork. Students take photos of their artwork in class and use the Artsonia app (on our new art room ipads) to upload their work to the site. Once I approve the images it is available for all to see on the web. Parents can even comment on the artwork via the website. The kids are really excited to see their work up on the site. A few have even asked if they could add art they've made outside of school or during 'free draw' time in class (for early finishers). Check out Hillcrest's Artsonia page here and see what we've got up there so far! :)

Hillcrest's Artsonia Page

Open House 2015-2016

This year I am again attending the 5th Grade Open House night at Hillcrest. Below is what I am passing out to all parents who make it to my classroom:

5^th and 6^th Grade Art—Room 126—Miss Brown

Hello and Welcome to Art Class,

This is my seventh year teaching a Hillcrest Intermediate and I am excited to continue sharing my knowledge of visual arts with my students. I communicate via skyward and my blog about things happening in the art room. Please subscribe to my blog by clicking ‘Join this Site’ on the right hand side under ‘Followers’.

http://missbrownsartblog.blogspot.com/

I am also trying out Artsonia this year. It is a place where images of student artwork is uploaded and can be viewed through a personal student account. I am still in the process of loading my rosters onto the site. When I’m completed Artsonia should email you asking for your permission for the artwork to be visible. I copied a sample of what the email should look like below. You will just click ‘Activate Account’ and then enjoy all the perks Artsonia has to offer. It’s not only an online digital art collection of your child’s artwork, they also offer various items that the artwork can be printed onto for purchase. A small portion of the proceeds come back to the art room for extra supplies too.

https://www.artsonia.com/

I’m happy to announce that we successfully raised enough money for 5 iPads for the classroom! They should be arriving soon and we’ll start making art with them asap. Stay tuned to my blog to see what we do.

Please always feel free to email me with any questions you may have about my class.

Miss Molli Brown

Here is a slideshow of past student work for display while parents are walking through my classroom.
 

Start of the year...Quick but Awesome Projects

This year both grades did a quick one-day project to start the year off. Both served as a little review of info from last year and acted as a warm-up for the students' creativity. Sixth graders created symmetrical designs in 4 sections of a circle using oil pastel, cut them apart and placed them in various positions on a square of paper. When the designs were all put together they created one larger collaborative artwork. We also discussed two principles of design, unity and variety.

• Unity-Unity is achieved when the components of a work of art are perceived as harmonious, giving the work a sense of completion.
• Variety- Use of different elements of art to add interest to an artwork. Variety is a principle of design.
• Symmetry- exact balance on opposite sides of a dividing line of an item.
• Collaborative Art- More than one artist contributed to the resulting art piece. The artists involved worked together.

Fifth graders had a fun and messy color review. They also did great following the art room procedures that they are getting used to. They used only the primary colors and mixed them to create the secondary colors. Each color was stamped onto a collaborative rainbow artwork. They're really cheering up the hallways of the school too!

• color-  is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is).
• primary colors- are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors.
• secondary colors- are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet).
• color wheel-A circular organization of the colors on the color spectrum.

WE ARE GETTING iPADS!!!!!

Thank you all so much for donating to my classroom fund for iPads! I am so grateful for all your support and so excited to get to use them with students to show them how technology and art can work together. I put this out there not really expecting anything but just hoping that I would get support. You have all blown me away with your generous giving. You are all amazing!

I'm already planning ways in which I can incorporate technology into existing lesson plans and coming up with new lessons focused around use of the iPads. I know the students are excited and quite frankly, so am I! Thank you again, and stay tuned to this blog if you'd like to see ways in which we use the iPads. I'll try and post as much as I can on here.

With gratitude,
Miss Brown

Enjoy this artwork, created on an iPad, by artist David Hockney. Click it for more info.

DonorsChoose.org--iPads for the Art Room--& Welcome Back!!

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. First, I have a special announcement---

Before I get into the basic info I typically write at the beginning of the year, I'd like to ask all the parents for a huge favor. I want to make learning about art as amazing as I possibly can for your children and I feel one way to do that in the 21st Century is to give students access to technology when it's needed. This year every classroom at Hillcrest was given 5 iPads, EXCEPT for the art rooms. I currently have ZERO iPads in my room. I would like to try and change that by asking for your help. I've created a project on DonorsChoose.org. For the next 7 days (until August 28th) they will match any donation you give, DOLLAR for DOLLAR (enter the word SPARK upon checking out to get them to match the donation). Even if you can only give $1, it would help!! Anything would help. I have so many exciting ideas to help make art more relevant to students with the use of the iPads. If you're interested in reading more, please visit my project page and consider donating. The donation stays open until December 18th. Spread the word to anyone you think might help. Thank you in advance!

Here's the link----> iPads for the Art Room

    

And now for the other important start of the year info.....

 I am excited for the coming year, as always, and ready to create some awesome projects with your children! I will be teaching both fifth and sixth grade students and will try to post on this blog as often as possible to communicate things the students might need to bring in, or just to show you cool photos of their work. I recommend subscribing to the blog so you can get an email notification every time I create a post. You can do that by clicking 'Join this site' on the right hand side of the blog in the 'Followers' section.

 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 Thursday, September 10th. 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

Little Bits STEM+ Art= STEAM Summer Camp

I've now finished my second summer teaching a Little Bits summer camp. This year I got to work with Mrs. Teems on the camp and we had a blast. The kids made some amazing projects and learned so much about the circuitry using inputs in combination with various outputs while designing and building a bunch of different projects. Not only were the kids given challenge projects, like building a vehicle, they also had time to just tinker and experiment with the bits to make new inventions. Here are some pictures and short videos of the kids explaining their projects and some of just the projects turned on. I hope you enjoy this! I definitely did.  :)

Stop Motion Video Summer STEM Camp ART+Technology!

Here's a few photos and all the videos our students made in Norwin's summer STEM (or STEAM as I like to call it--the a for ART  :) camp. This camp focuses on incorporating art and technology as students learned how to create various types of stop motion videos. They worked with two apps to create their videos--iMotion and iMovie. Not only did they become pros at using both apps and learned how to create some amazing mini movies, they also learned how to work together with others. It was difficult at times because the kids were very passionate about what they wanted their movies to look like, but overall it was a great learning experience for everyone. Here are they types of stop motion movies they created:

• Whiteboard 
• Inanimate Objects 
• Claymation 
• Cut Paper/Assemblage

The videos plus some pictures are in the slideshow here. All of the videos are also saved onto this YouTube playlist.
 

5th Grade Keith Haring Paintings and Sculptures

Objective(s)—SWBAT…

• Recognize the work of Pennsylvania born artist Keith Haring.
• Sketch the basic and simplified structure of a human figure.
• Show active movement within figure drawing.
• Apply appropriate marks around the figure to enhance the suggestion of movement.
• Create figure drawings in the likeness of Keith Haring’s.
• Select an appropriate figure drawing to become a 3D figure sculpture.
• Create a 3D figure sculpture in the likeness of Keith Haring’s artwork.
• Paint and outline all figures created for final project neatly.

6th Grade Relief Printmaking

Objective(s)—SWBAT…

• Define printmaking as a form of art.

• Identify relief printing as a type of printmaking.
• Create a design for a relief print.
• Follow safety techniques while cutting a linoleum block.
• Complete the printing process to make an edition of 4 prints in the following categories:
• Black ink on white paper
• Color (plain color or rainbow print)
• Printed on colored paper
• Black on white paper touched up with color using colored pencils, oil pastels, or watercolors.
• Title, sign, and edition prints correctly.
• Take part in a print exchange with classmates.

Art Show Opportunity

If you're interested in entering your artwork in a show, here's a great opportunity for students and adults. All the information you need is below. If you sign up, comment below so I can get hopefully get a picture of it and post it on the art blog! >.< :e :kitten <3 

Arts Day 2015

This year's arts day was an amazing success! Thank you to all of the artists that came to Hillcrest to share their knowledge and passion with our students. Thank you to the PTA for funding this amazing day and our principals, Mr. O'Neil and Mrs. Banasik for supporting us. Here's a list of the artists that attended and some great pictures from the day. :kitten :robot :rainbow :r

• Basket Weaver- Rosemarie Dvorchak
• Flash Animator- Nathan Mazur
• Yoga- Tisha Samuels
• African Drummer- Bryan Fazio
• Strolling Violinist- Steve Vance
• Dance/Drama- Elena Antolik
• DJ- Glenn Morello
• Aerobics-Linda Morrison
• Jeweler- Barb Kustra
• Ceramacists- Heather Urban and Izzy Petrush
• Mosaic Artist- Ann Andrejack
• Painter- Alyssa Minko
• Sculptor- Duncan McDiarmid
• Scenic Designer- Britton Mauk
• Oil Painter- Patty Vaughn

Library Mural Photo Book

Mural Team students this is a little treat for you. Mrs. Fischer, a PTSA mom who takes pictures for the yearbook, put together this beautiful photo book on York photos. It's a photo website kind of like Shutterfly, or Snapfish. She's been so amazingly nice and created this beautiful book that you can take a look at and if you would like one you may purchase it directly from the site. She made it to fit into the 5x7" book format that seems to cost around $10.99 plus shipping. No pressure to buy, I just wanted to let you know that it is out there for you if anyone would like to order one. You can view it for free. You do have to create a login but you don't need to enter credit card info unless you'd like to actually buy one. The info of what to do and link is below. Thanks and enjoy! :mj :e


If you have an Account:
Click on the thumbnail or the link below and then the "SAVE TO ACCOUNT" button. Once you log in, gretchen fischer's design will appear in your "My Projects" section.

If you do not have an Account:
Click on the thumbnail or the link below and then the "SAVE TO ACCOUNT" button. You will be prompted to set up a free account. gretchen fischer's design will then appear in your "My Projects" section.

http://www.yorkphoto.com/project/sharedproject/1ac8430738054fa0b109e6e51e3b17b9?PK=e0e04a5e-5062-405d-aeb0-aa379be6bd58

6th Grade Pop Art Selfies

Objective(s)—Students will be able to...

• Recognize the work of Andy Warhol.
• Capture a self-portrait photo using an iPad.
• Create tints and a shades of a hue on small value scale.
• Outline facial features and transfer outlined portrait at the same time onto drawing paper.
• Paint outlined face with a tint of any color.
• Paint outlined hair with either a shade or tint in a different color from their face.
• Color the darker values of  portrait with black sharpie.
• Cut out and glue portrait on the complementary color background of either hair or face.

5th Grade Split Self-Portraits

Objective(s)—Students will be able to....

• Identify portraits and self-portraits in a variety of media.
• Capture a portrait photo of a classmate using an iPad.
• Draw half of portrait to match ½ of photograph.
• Create a value scale using pencil.
• Apply correct values to the drawn self-portrait half.
• Identify and select warm, cool, or neutral colors for a marker splattered background.

The Mural is Complete!!

Link to Video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/gYpgzduPLi4