Mrs. Walters Art Room

RCSD School #10

Dr. Walter Cooper Academy

Kalena and Serenity

Ten student art pieces were accepted into The Mayors Art for Peace Poster Competition. Students attended an opening display of the artwork in the Link Gallery at City Hall on October 26th, 2023.

Art by Jesus

Yonxiel

Ariana

Jesus , Mayor Evans ,Lyndin, Layah and Serenity

Dr.Thomas

De Asia

Layah and Aaron

poster art on display in the library

Ariana creating her poster design

Puppets! Students learned about forces of motion.

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Kindergarten artists read The Day the Crayons Quit! We learned about types of lines, directions of lines, and emotions.

Rain Rain Go Away

Kindergarten

Bears Hibernating by Morrigan, Messiah and Jacquis

Student Spring Expedition involves Weather

Kyrie holds his rainbow rain painting

Students used a variety of art medium as they strengthened fine motor skills, developed pre -writing skills and re-enforced ELA and math facts.

Londyn and Ibrahim painting.

.For their Expedition, Play Over Time Kindergarten students created a doll house with their classroom teachers, During art we created figures and furnishing for their houses.

Ma'hlani

"Be a painbow in someones cloud "Maya Angelou

SEL play day

Grade One The Colors of Us

First-grade artists learned about community helpers, and their role as citizens in school and the community

Portraits by kamora, Naseer,Malia and Eddie

Snowy Landscapes with shadows by grade one

Naseer & Noah

Skyla

First Grade

Clay slab texture fish with Neon Oil Pastels and tempera paint

Student experimented with tempera paint to achieve the color of their skin. we used red white brown yellow and black to practice. They painted paper for their self portraits. After individual conferences showing placement of features they added details.

Naseer

First grade artists studied shadows a result of light from the sun. We also learned about the aurora borealis or northern lights. What a fun way to experiment with chalk pastels

Anna and Skyla

Demetrious

Grade Two School of Fish

students discussed why might fish swim in a school.?We created a three-D fish and included fins and tails as well as decorative paper and patterns.

Ma'Ki

Destinee holding her self portrait collage

second grade students studied landforms and horizon lines to create colorful landscapes inspired by Richard mayhew. Mayhew is Black and Nauve American and is currently 99 years of age.

Amina

Luna

Layah

Ayan

Second grade made Snow Angel collage self portraits.

They had a blast cutting and glueing various papers to make a self portrait.

We used quick Stix to create shadows in the snow for our angels.

willie, Felix, Amina

Grade Three Monochromatic Landscape & I am from ....poem

Students created a poem after learning about culture and families in class. We discussed where they feel they are from. Some wrote about where they were born. We discussed monochromatic, and atmospheric perspective and created gradients with a color. We added details with shades of black and their chosen color.

Kani

leilani

Harmony

Pranesha

Kalena's painting

Mohamed

Serenity

Chase

Vian, Jaya & Madison

Grade Four

Artists created value studies with colored pencils. Focussing on shadow and light sources. We used pumpkins as a focal point for our drawings. We discussed layering and blending of colored pencils.

We are also learning hand-building techniques. Last year we used a subtractive method. This year we are adding coils to create vessels. We looked at examples of Native American pottery.

Autumn

keymoni, Sophia, Gabe, Ezoria and Johsaiyah

Jayceon and Shani Using Glaze on cermaic vessels

Students used hand-building techniques to create a vessel. They learned the about the composistion of clay and the stages that occur in the process of creating ceramics.

Grade Five Native American Artifacts

Student artists became experts on Native Americans in their classrooms. Their expedition's final product was a museum of artifacts. Students created various artifacts in the art room to compliment their work with their teachers

Jesus

Andria Adobe structure slab construction

Agamographs and Optical Illusions

grade 5&6

kinetic artist Yaacov Agam

Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement

An optical illusion is a trick that your eyes play on your brain.

agamograph is an art form that uses optical illusion to create changes when you look at it from different angles

Fifth Grade

Eco- System Restoration

Rainforest

Andrea

Jesus

Iasiah, Julian ,Nevaeh, Jesus & A'briella

Lyndin

Derrick and Johan working with clay

Sixth Grade students explored themes of heroes. What qualities does a hero possess? They wrote an essay in class and created a self portrait using photographs, transparencies, sharpies and paint.

Musa and Fatuma

Alivia

Students created a class sarcophagus. It consisted of a plaster mask, tempera paint and paint markers for details. Students had work in small groups to assist with the completion of the sarcophagus. After analyzing Egyptian art they added patterns and symbols.

Alyvia

Sixth grade artists have been re reenforcing hand building techniques to create various ceramic sculptures that they pinted with glaze.

Husni and Amir

Above Kamora and Jesus

Pranesha and Kalena Willie

Justin

During Black History Month we explored and analyzed portraits, Alma Thomas, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Clementine Hunter, The Quilts of Gees Bend, and more! Black History is woven throughout the year and not just during February.

Martin Luther King Jr. by Leilani, Son House by Mohamed, Harriet Tubman by Husni, Katherine Johnson by Kani, Maya Angelou by Hakima, Martin Luther King Jr, by Rhykii,Rosa Parks by Serenity W.

Alma Thomas's work The Eclipse inspired us to look closely at art inspired by outer space, abstract imagery, pattern, and variety.

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The White House Dining Room painting Resurrection by Alma Thomas.

grade 4 Ka'llian, D'onte

The Beat Goes On!

Volume & Amplitude | PBS NC Science | PBS LearningMediaThe louder a drum is hit, the farther the sound wave it causes will travel. Find out more about sound waves, volume and ampltude with this animation.

Stay tuned for a performance video!

Brook-Lynn

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We learned about robots and how they help people do a job. we drew robots and during the next session we used markerbots to draw. They consist of a battery a small motor completes the circuit and a cap that spins. We experimented with tape to alter the path the bot used.