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I make MESSES
I make MISTAKES
But deep inside
I got what it takes
I am an ARTIST!
Hello panther nation! My name is Justine Frappier and I’m the Art Teacher at Dayton Consolidated School. I’ve been teaching here for over ten years. I absolutely love this community and really enjoy teaching art to all the kids. I truly believe every kid is an artist and try to have every kid feel a sense of pride in their artwork. Along with art I also love insects, being outside, making food from scratch and baking sourdough bread. I live in Biddeford with my husband Tim and my two daughters Tessa and Emmalena.
Hello panther nation! My name is Justine Frappier and I’m the Art Teacher at Dayton Consolidated School. I’ve been teaching here for over ten years. I absolutely love this community and really enjoy teaching art to all the kids. I truly believe every kid is an artist and try to have every kid feel a sense of pride in their artwork. Along with art I also love insects, being outside, making food from scratch and baking sourdough bread. I live in Biddeford with my husband Tim and my two daughters Tessa and Emmalena.
what the kids are creating...
Kindergarten
The kindergarteners have finished weaving! I always like to end the year with weaving K-5. I like to start kindergarten with weaving paper before we move onto yarn and fabric in the later years. They created their “loom” by creating textured patterns in their painted paper. We used cool colors so that when they wove the strips of warm colored scrap book paper it would stand out more. Because they have been talking about and practicing weaving with Ms. Cairns they did an amazing job! Weaving can be hard especially the first day but they knocked it out of the park!
1st Grade
The first graders are working on their weaving. Typically I still do paper weaving in first grade but this class really took to weaving so they got to weave yarn on a small loom I made on cardboard. When finished they’ll have a choice of whether to add popsicle sticks to the top and bottom so it can hang like a tapestry or they can take it off to have as a small blanket for a doll. They are really enjoying weaving and they are doing great!
2nd Grade
The second graders are finishing up their llama looms. They cut out a llama, warped it ( wrapped yarn around the loom) and wove their choice of colors for the llama’s blanket on its back. When finished they had the option of adding pompoms and small fake flowers. Not all the llamas are in the picture because some were taken home.
3rd Grade
The third graders just finished their Kimmy Cantrell inspired asymmetrical cardboard masks. They looked at the many clay masks Cantrell has created using asymmetry. Their faces all had exaggerated facial features of different sizes scattered on the face to create asymmetry. Because I had a lot of cardboard I encouraged them to go big and some of them really did! They had a great time cutting all the little pieces of cardboard and gluing them down to create something aesthetically pleasing. After the mask was constructed they painted it all black and then drew over it in oil pastel to add color.
4th Grade
The fourth graders have just finished their pop art words inspired by Roy Litchenstein. On top of looking at Lichtenstein's artwork they also watched some clips from the 1960’s Batman show which had action words popping on the screen during the comical fight scenes. They came up with an action word, painted it on recycled book pages and then put it on a background made from printing off of bubble wrap. They really enjoyed watching the Batman clips and creating their word. They did an awesome job making it pop art.
5th Grade
The fifth graders have just started their Notans. A Notan is a Japanese concept that plays with the placement of light and dark next to one another. They had the option of black and white, complimentary colors or warm and cool colors. Because they have just started I don't have a picture of their work yet but here is a picture of the example.
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