Welcome RVMS 6th Grade back to ART!!!

It has been a crazy, crazy switch into the 3rd trimester here at RVMS. 

We now have 6th graders in the Art Room everyday! 

And it has been exciting (And challenging since there are 178 of them)!

6th graders are working a radial name design in class right now!

They are using the color wheel to color and complete their projects.

They are also learning how to upload and edit their art work to  our Artsonia School Gallery.

Please take a look at their great work!

Blizzard Bag #1 Assigned!

Well Snow Day number 6 arrived! (But it was such pretty snow!)

On the right side of the blog there is a tab that is labeled Blizzard Bags 2015! Click there and all 3 days are posted. Please complete assignments in your sketchbook OR...on any piece of paper you may have at home! You have two weeks to turn in your Blizzard Bags!!! I will post a reminder in the ArtRoom!!!

Stay warm!!!

You want me to talk about WHAT?

Being the Art Teacher is great! 

Normally!

One of the hardest things that I need to teach my students is how to respond to art work with something other than, "That's Cool!"

Using a game often referred to as Token Response students were introduced to a number of famous and not so famous artworks.  They were also given 8 different tokens to place on the artwork. 

Tokens ranged from a heart to represent like, to a dollar sign that represented which artwork they thought would cost the most.

Placing tokens.

Discussing artworks and sharing ideas (Which happened a lot!)

And finally sharing why they made the choices that they did! 

As an introduction to art criticism, these 7th graders did great!

7th Graders Upload Art to Artsonia

Please visit our Gallery at Artsonia!

River Valley Middle School Artsonia Gallery

This is a great website that we can celebrate student artwork. Parents can share their students work with family all over the world.

 Using the iPads today, students were able to upload their personal work and add a title to their piece. Students can also add personal artists statements from this format.

And I cannot finish December without a picture of the cutest Christmas tree!

He is bite size!

(Oh No! I never clicked Publish! ) Viking Pride T-shirt's

The 8th grade students are mastering silk screens! 

Following some investigation into the process 4 different designs were made.

 Once the screens had been exposed and ready to go, out came the ink!

Students had the option of bringing in a pre-washed shirt or sweatshirt from home. 

Welcome 7th Graders!

We have changed trimesters  here at RVMS and I have a brand new group of students! 

New Faces!

Hard at Work the very fist days!

 Of course, we had to do a name project so that I can learn all 156 names!

Students practiced writing their names using block letters. Then they created 2 sided tag board (A bit heavier than paper)

letters to build a 3-d

Sculpture!

Great Work by All!

Leave a comment!

The Snow Plows are On the Trucks!

Friday morning October 24th, Marion County ODOT came to retrieve the snowplows.

What I did not realize is that they would hook them straight to the trucks right then!

The crew from ODOT used a skid-steer loader to move the plow blades from our work area and then attached them to large dump trucks. They will be ready or the snow next week!