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BACK to School 2021 September
BACK to School 2021 September
Thank you so much parents for organizing materials. We will be safe, learn to take care of our own supplies, and be organized too!
Parents..... I miss you in school, another year without you around is hard for us in Art and in class. We will follow the rules and think positively.
We at SOIS have your child's safety as our No. 1 concern.
Creativity is fun! But it is more fun with everyone involved. See you in cyberspace on Back To School Night 2021!
We keep our supplies like this now.
2021 Art class May 6
2021 Art class May 6
KA and KB Home learning
1- Read and look at the golden week instructions and art works. Make your 4 drawings in pencil on paper.
2 - After you made four drawings of memorable events in your life - color them with crayons or colored pencil on your paper.
3- After you colored them choose your favorite and draw it on the canvas I sent you today for art class.
4- Next week we will paint it in class.
Don't forget to bring the canvas back so we can paint it in class.
PS I am sorry our mother's day present of the clay you made will have to be the father's day present. Let's be flexible.
HAVE FUN and enjoy Art and remembering your memories and important events with your family.
LOOK what a beautiful rainbow I found during Golden week in our community.
2021 Golden Week May online Home Learning
2021 Golden Week May online Home Learning
Art KA and KB
Draw some pictures for our new unit on significant events in your life! (that means important to you).
What events or things did you do in your life that are memorable and important......
Try these Four ideas....
1 -Draw your favorite place to go with your family?
2- Draw the best celebration party ever!
3- Draw your favorite thing to do with your grandparents or parents.
4- Draw your most fun day you had in your life.....what would it include?
When you get back to school we will do a painting on real canvas about one of these events in your life. So today please draw some.
Here are some artists work to inspire you. Look closely at the paintings with your parents what is happening? please talk to them about it.
Have fun drawing kids........I miss you see you soon!
Here is a wonderful painting by Marc Chagall
This looks like such a fun event to see.
How memorable. What is happening?
Do you know what an acrobat is? Di dyou ever see something like this? Can you draw a fun event you saw?
Here is a textile by Faith Ringgold
What is happening?
What are the children doing!?
It looks like so much fun.
Did you ever chase butterflies in the Spring?
That would be so memorable for me
what about you?
What an amazing fun event - can you draw one?
What did you do in the park or in nature with
friends or family?
What fun we can have in the summer with our family or friends? Do you remember ever looking at fireworks?
Do you ever remember any celebration you went too? Here is a painting by Kiyoshi Yamashita
Can you draw something special you saw in the summer?
Here is a painting by Mary Cassatt
Here are kids at the beach. Look they are playing in the sand.
The parents care for their skin so they are covered from the sun.
This was painted a long time ago. How can you tell?
Can you draw a fun trip when you went somewhere? Where was it?
Why was it fun and memorable?
2020-2021 August ..... BACK TO SCHOOL NEWS -
2020-2021 August ..... BACK TO SCHOOL NEWS -
The Art Room
Check out our fun basket system!
It is the NEW Normal!
Parents Please buy a smock or art apron to cover clothes. We don't want to share at this time.
SMOCK Please wash them every few weeks or weekly depending on the project. You can order this all online but there are so many choices depending on age and preference.
I think parent/ student personal choice to protect clothes is fine.
POSCA Also to help supply our Art baskets please get some wide Bold 8mm chisel top paint Posca markers. 8 Pack.
I think the easiest place to buy Posca is at Conan. But here are some pictures below we found online.
Buying at Conan or Ayahadio is maybe the best option.
May 25-29 * Nature mobile
May 25-29 * Nature mobile
Goal: Make a nature mobile.
What is a mobile and what artists make mobiles?
Be inspired to create from nature and learn about constructions that move.
Also do you have anything to share from last week?
Instructions:
Listen and view from the gallery below.
get some supplies cardboard, sting (or wire) and papers.
See the Demonstration... from Mrs. Henbest - Lets try it together.....
See Mrs Henbest's idea and also try your own.
Tips:
have fun
decorate in your own creative way.
Can you be a sculptor? What is a moving sculpture called?
Let's look at real sculptor who makes Kinetic Sculpture!
May 18-22 * Let's make flowers that fly!
May 18-22 * Let's make flowers that fly!
Goal: Read some imaginative and informative stories about flowers.
Tap into your imagination and make some flowers out of things you have at home. Use your hands and use your creativity and imagination.
Be inspired to create from nature and learn about plants at the same time.
Also do you have anything to share from last week?
Instructions:
Listen to the songs and stories below.
get some toilet paper and toilet paper tubes sting (or wire) and papers.
See the Demonstration... from Mrs.Henbest - Lets try it together.....
Stop just at the flower part or let your imagine fly and make flying flowers..... you can even make other magincal fun things.
See Mrs Henbest's idea and also try your own.
Tips:
have fun
can you draw the part of the plants?
could you try other flowers with the video below?
May 10-15 * KA play the Maracas and look closely at plants and draw
May 10-15 * KA play the Maracas and look closely at plants and draw
Instructions:
look closely at plants
identify the different parts
draw seeds, sprots, stems, and leaves using any materail you have at home
Tips:
collect plants and look closely
think and learn about the needs of plants
read stories and look at artworks about plants
May 7-8 *Caterpillar instrument made with a pet bottle
May 7-8 *Caterpillar instrument made with a pet bottle
Instructions:
remember the Yayoi Kusama dots from last week
let's make some caterpillars or worms with dots and patterns
can we turn it into a musical instrument?
Let us ask Arisa in KB she thought of this idea.
learn about insects and caterpillars and worms
use your dots patterns and lines and make some cool sounding maracas
Tips:
collect a pet bottle
collect papers
collect stones, rice, or beans for the sound
I am a caterpillar song
I am a worm song
April 27-May 1 *Make a artwork out of dots
April 27-May 1 *Make a artwork out of dots
Artists are curious
Art can be simple = Art can be fun and inventive
Art is often influenced from things all around us - in our natural world.
Goal: Create an artwork based on nature and influenced by the Dots and by artist Yayoi Kusama and other creative artists who use 'dots'!
Instructions:
Have a zoom sessions with 'Builder' Henbest
let's build a world of curiosity and love for nature and have fun with online distance learning.
read 'the Dot' in zoom class look at the gallery of Art work using dots by various artists
make you own dot art work and think about 'sharing the planet' and our natural world
Tips
Use any material
please clean up after yourself -I wonder if you could use markers for making dots?
stickers for making dots?
Q tips for making for dots? wow see what you can find in your home and have fun.
Due before the next zoom Art class ...............................................................................KA Friday May 8 and KB May 14th after golden week.
Let's look in literature and art history and see artists who USE DOTS!
April 20th-24th * Decorate a box for your room
April 20th-24th * Decorate a box for your room
Artists are influenced by nature.
Goal:
Decorate a box for your room. Be inspired by Spring Light and the Colors of Nature.
Instructions:
Look at the below images with Mrs. Henbest in Your Zoom Art class this week. *Wednesday April 22 KB - Friday April 24 KA
Listen to the stories about nature and growing plants.
Draw pictures of your favorite animals and plants and colors.
Collect scrap papers, magazines, drawings, photos, newspaper, wrapping papers or even scrap cloth with your parents
Decide your design and glue on the box
Be creative and imaginative in your decorations
Let's link our learning about Spring with a beautiful fun box to hold our special things.
TIPS
Don't use too much glue
Put your name on it in a creative way
Collect other fun things to glue on the box, you can even put things in the inside.
You could even make the box into an animal if you like to.
Share in the next zoom class Wednesday 29 KB or Friday May 1 KA
April 13th - 17th * Make a bear for your window
April 13th - 17th * Make a bear for your window
Artwork can be created with the intent to help others
Artworks can be made at home and used in a local community to show support, empathy and have fun.
Goal:
Make a creative artwork of a teddy bear or type of bear that can be hung near your home or in your car or house window, to inspire others to be happy.
Instructions:
Read a bear story with Mrs. Henbest in Your Zoom Art class this week. * Wednesday, April 15 KB - Friday, April 17- KA
Listen to the extra bear stories Mrs. Henbest included see below for some fun bear themed videos.
Parents look at the article in the Newspaper - how did kids use art to help others feel better?
Remember that many kids around the world are out of school so lets post a picture of our bear artwork on our window to make others happy and go on their own bear hunt
Art can communicate a message to help people
Draw a Teddy Bear on a sheet of blank paper and post it in the window of your house to show others in your community or post it inside your own house to give hope to your family
Art makes people feel good
Bears are cute
Throughout history animals of all kinds gave humans pleasure and a good feeling. (see the famous artworks below)
Which is Leonardo da Vinci's painting? and what is that unusual animal?
NEWS FLASH...look what kids your own age are doing to help others through Art.
LOOK at these great examples from Ms Entwistle's Niece and from our very Own Erica in KA and Ellie in KB. Thank you for making your neighborhood so happy. Art has a real purpose! Shall we take a moment and make a colorful rainbow too!
Let's listen and watch these fun and silly videos below about bears. The message above is from our very own Inquirer, Thinker and Artist Mui in G2. I can't wait to see what her bear will be like on that happy window. She really shows by example how to make others feel good in our difficult times. Thanks Mui.
Check this out!
Look at the images Below - how did famous artists paint or sculpt animals?
Question 1- Which one is a fake Leonardo da Vinci?
Question 2 - Which two have hidden horses? how are they different?
Now draw your own bear or favorite bear related creature and post it in your house window. Let's go on a bear hunt!
Due Dates: KB Due Wednesday April 22 / KA Friday April 24 / Send Mrs. Henbest your picture or show it on the next Zoom class
April 6th-10th * Make an artwork about feelings and Color
April 6th-10th * Make an artwork about feelings and Color
Colors Express Different Feelings in Artwork
Artwork and Stories are often connected to show an idea
Goal
Make an imaginative Artwork and or story with Pictures to show a feeling you had over Spring Break and choose a color or two that matches this feeling.
Instructions
First Read or watch Dr. Seuss My Many Colored Days discuss with Mrs. Henbest
In art it is important to be able to express our feelings.
Draw some pictures in your journal about how you were feeling during your spring break.
Choose one or two colors to show your feelings. See a few random famous artworks below.
Make a creative artwork using materials you have at home to show your ideas and feelings.
Show Mrs. Henbest your artwork on your next zoom Art class.
Tips
Use various materials that you have at home. Spend some time using your hands don't rush.
Use solid colors if you can and make unique textures with whatever material you are using.
Enjoy expressing yourself and being creative!
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