Academic Links
Artsonia is our online digital art portfolio. All students have their artwork saved in the database. Parents/guardians need to give permission for their student's artwork to be visible to other students and parents. Unique codes are sent home at the beginning of the school year. (Permission carries over from year to year, but you can log in and change it at any time.) Once permission has been granted parents/guardians can share their student's gallery with other friends and family members. When new artwork is added you will be notified via email. Parents/guardians and those with granted permission can comment on student artwork offering encouragement and engage in art dialog. Art is a community based learning experience. Artsonia fosters building our greater art community.
The National Gallery of Art has a page with 18 games and activities designed to introduce students to art and art history. These apps teach kids how to create different types of art from collage to still life to 3-dimensional designs. These games and activities must be download to your Macintosh or Windows-based computers. There is also an iOS version of the NGAkids App for iPad. Students will also have access to these games in art class during free choice art time.
Elementary Art Resources is a great place to start to supplement what we are learning about in the art classroom. If you have bored students or a snow day and want to do sometime artsy this is a site you must check out! With just some basic materials you likely already have at home you can create some exciting projects. There are a variety of types of art to create from poems, artwork and books specifically designed with the elementary school aged students in mind.