🎨 Mr. Palacio’s Art Newsletter 🎨
Hello Families, Mr. Palacio here!
Our artists have been busy creating amazing artwork in art class! We have been working on both 2-D and 3-D projects that help students learn new skills and express their creativity.
In our 2-D lessons, students practiced drawing techniques like shading and one-point perspective (a way to make drawings look like they go far back into space).
In our 3-D lessons, students worked with ceramics and understood the process from hand shaping, firing in a kiln to glazing. These hands-on projects were lots of fun and helped students think about the process of shaping clay into pottery. City Scapes with cut paper. Where we collaborated on designing a city with streets, subway and an airport.
🌟 Learning Skills We Are Building
Students are practicing important life skills every day, including:
• Self-management – completing sequential tasks staying on task and finishing projects with care.
• Social skills – sharing supplies and working together at our communal art tables.
We are also learning research skills by looking at pictures, ideas, and examples to help inspire our artwork.
🗣️ Growing Our Communication Skills at OWN2 and at Home.
Students are learning how to talk about art using special art words. During class critiques, they practice giving kind and helpful feedback like:
“I noticed you used warm and cool colors! Maybe adding more lines and shapes could make it even better. Remember to fill the whole space!”
This helps students become confident speakers and thoughtful artists.
Let's support our young artists by continuing to build on these skills at home! We are so proud of all the creativity happening in the art room.
Sincerely ,
Mr. Palacio 🎨✨
Creative minds collaborating on projects like the "My City" planning project helped connect students to architecture, design elements and city planning. Here my clever 3rd graders, Towser, Uhnoma and Gianna communicated their ideas clearly. Social Skills played an important part with the success of this project.
Communication - I can clearly share my ideas in a group setting and can respond using art vocabulary words. Buildings were designed first on paper and folded to stand up-right for a 3D effect. Take note of the airport, park and lake.
The objective was to use shading techniques, ruler, line and color to compose a one point perspective composition. Austin in third grade is showing his ruler skills and shading with chalk.
By: Adaline 3rd Gr.
By: Danna 3rd Gr.
By: Alina 3rd Gr
I am proud to say that OWN2 is the only school in this district with a kiln to produce magnificent hand-made ceramics such as pottery, sculpture and tiles.
K- 5th grade pinch-pots.
Glaze is the color and shine.
Simple shapes become tile pieces.