"Stained Glass Me"

A unit that celebrates art, science,and friendship?  Our third and fourth graders just completed a project that celebrates all three! 

Voyager Global Art Exhibit

 A night of art, reflection, and sharing. On Thursday, November 19th from 6:30-8:00 pm the Voyager hallway will be transformed for one night only to showcase a beautiful, powerful, and globally connected art installation. Students have been working on large pieces of art to match a piece of poetry since September, and we are now ready to invite the greater community in for the opening of this “exhibit”. Every member of our 7/8 community will have a personal piece on display for you to look at and read as you walk down our hallway enjoying the additional lights, pictures, and sounds produced and displayed for this event. Upon entering Voyager House there will also be a slideshow of photographs, audio recordings, and work from our first trimester on display in the Kiva, Quatt Core, and Wesnak Core.

Harbor Students Plan a Trip

Harbor 7th and 8th graders studied World Geography and to engage them on the topic, we had the students plan a mock trip anywhere in the world.  This project tied humanities, art, and math together into one awesome project.  The evening celebration showcased their hard work throughout the trimester.  Below are a sampling of the "souvenirs" that they created in the art room. 

Upper House Art

The drawing curriculum for grades 5-8 explore several styles of drawing: gesture, contour, and perspective.  Students completed their first rotation and it is amazing to see their talents.  Here are just a few examples of contour faces, a contour shoe and pattern exploration exercise.

Birch Trees

Third and Fourth graders continue to explore the vocabulary word SPACE.  This time through birch tree paintings.  Their birch tree is the foreground, the land is the middle ground, the sky is the background.  The MEDIA we used was acrylic paint for the birch trees, oil pastels for the land, and water color for the background.

Pastel Landscapes

Third and Fourth graders start their year or art making pastel landscapes.

They learn about the art vocabulary word SPACE.

In art, the word space means showing depth in a piece of art. 

 

Our next project will be birch tree paintings.

Students will learn about the foreground, middle ground, and back ground

(using a different MEDIA for each!).  

SQUIGGLES OF AWESOME PROJECT...

CONNECTING CLASSROOMS THROUGH ART! (and FUN!) Our partner class was Mrs. Bond's third grade class in Detroit, Michigan.