Color Mixing and Textures

This last week we continued on our color wheel and mixing activities.  Kindergarten is finishing their color wheel clowns, first grade is almost done with their "Mouse Paint" palettes and second grade is having fun painting their color theory scarecrows (pictures to come when we are all finished).  Third grade created texture paintings that will be used in making our Eric Carle style animals.  Fourth grade is adding more colors to their abstract, hidden color wheel and fifth grade worked on original Op Art pieces.  Fourth and fifth grade are also learning about actual and implied textures in art.  We are enjoying celebrating our creativity!

Exploring Color All Over!

These past weeks have been busy!  We have moved from learning about line and pattern to working with color.  All of the students will be learning about primary, secondary and complementary colors as well as warm and cool color.  The older grades will add tertiary colors, tints and shades/values.  We will complete several projects exploring color and continue many others throughout the year.

Storybook Pumpkins

Our school had a pumpkin decorating contest this past week and it was just awesome!  We sure have some very artistic and imaginative students here at Polser.  There was such a great turnout and all of the pumpkins were related to a children's storybook.  We also had a group of pumpkins that were selected for a Twitter contest.  Votes were counted through tweets and retweets.  It was such a super way to include our world-wide community.  Great job Polser Bears!

Collaborative Cube Sculpture

Our fifth graders worked really hard over several class periods to complete the sculpture that was unveiled at our school carnival.  I was so proud of them! We practiced a lot of geometric vocabulary and added abstract and realistic faces to our cubes.  Our idea came from a sculpture that was completed by students from the Nasher Museum Summer Institute for Teens.  Click below to watch our slide show to see the sculpture from many angles, just as if you were there in person.  After our unveiling, the fifth graders took turns reassembling the cubes into different arrangements.  In small groups, they discussed and critiqued their own work, looking at the elements of art and principles of design.  It was a wonderful learning experience for all of us!

Cube slide show: http://bit.ly/1glLVXl Nasher Museum Summer Institute for Teens http://on.fb.me/HvHevt