• Save the Date: Arlington Heights Memorial Art Show Reception will be May 3rd, 6-7:30 pm.
• See my Family Reading Night post for photos of families creating their Alien.
• The HALL OF FAME RAFFLE is quickly approaching (mid-May). Please help your young artist by signing up 5 fan club members and approving 5 comments on their Artsonia digital art gallery. Learn more here.
• I will be presenting about how we use animation in the elementary art room at the National Art Education conference in NYC. Much of what I will be sharing is found on my STEAM flyer here.
• We had a 3rd grader, Karis, recognized for her 2nd grade painting at the IAEA student art show reception. Her portrait will travel the state all year along with 44 other K-12 pieces to represent the best of the best in Illinois K-12 art. You can view the exhibit in April 2017 at the Palatine Public Library.
• Thank you for supporting ABC/25 foundation. I won a STEAM grant that challenges students to think like engineers and artists as they create an automated art-making robot. See my post here.
• Fugleflick Filmmakers finished their movie about taking care of the art hanging in the school hallways. Watch "Don't Crush My Dreams"  here

• If you want to follow throughout the school year, I blog regularly about art lessons on my Fugleblog.
• I also tweet things we are doing all the time. Follow @fuglefun on twitter to see.
• I archive all the newsletters on this page of my website.

Just for Kindergarten

• View the pumpkin patch paintings where students mixed primary colors to make secondaries, overlapped to make foreground, middle ground, and background, and a horizon line in these beautiful landscapes here: Artsonia Art Gallery - Kindergarten Landscapes
• Students thought about small, medium, large as they constructed a snowman then layered paint to create his/her accessories: Artsonia Art Gallery - Kindergarten Snowman Painting
• One group of kindergarteners (K-3) gives us ideas for how to be kind in this movie that features a first attempt to animate: How to be Kind by Kindergarten - Dryden Art 
• Students are working on their self-portraits. Look at them learning how to place the features of their face through these physical and digital games.

Just for Grade 1

• View 1st grade finished wild thing paintings: Artsonia Art Gallery - Wild Things with Visual Texture See the post with resources and info here.
• We made these into class collages and put them in this tiny movie: Wild Thing March on Vimeo
• Then, first graders put their wild things that were inspired by a book, back into a book with a digital lesson to make these physical bookmarks: Artsonia Art Gallery - Wild Thing Bookmarks They will be going home soon.
• 1st grade learned about positive/negative space, mixing a tint, monochromatic paintings, and etching a line design with these beautiful heart paintings:  Artsonia Art Gallery - Monochromatic Hearts
• We are starting our figure drawing lesson of our White Spot Inspector now. See this post for a preview and this tweet for a glimpse of interactive learning.

Just for Grade 2

• 2nd graders tried paper cut stop stop-motion inspired by their Keith Haring paintings. See this post or, go directly to their class movies
• 2-2 Stop Motion on Vimeo
• 2-3 stop motion on Vimeo
• MA2 Stop Motion on Vimeo
• 2nd graders made collaborative rotational symmetry designs in Legos. See this post with photos of the lego mural. View the gallery: Artsonia Art Gallery - Rotational Symmetry with Legos
• Then, 2nd graders used apps on the iPads to digitally mask their lego plate into a circle and rotate it. See this movie: Rotational Symmetry with Legos on Vimeo

Just for Grade 3

• 3rd grade Carousel Horses: Artsonia Art Gallery - Carousel Horses
• Students posed with Green Screen to ride their Carousel Horses: Artsonia Art Gallery - Riding the Carousel Horse
• Students used animation to ride their horses: See the post and find your child's video here:
• 3-1 https://vimeo.com/195312399
  3-2 https://vimeo.com/195643385
  3-3 https://vimeo.com/195476327
  3-4 https://vimeo.com/194838304
• Students collaboratively made progression animations with their snowmen sculptures. See the post here. See the video with everyone's work here: https://vimeo.com/199181508
• Their animations sparked a lot of interest on Twitter. See this tweet of a technology teacher from Canada who tried our project: https://twitter.com/ebaumi/status/830508019901403136 
• And see this tweet where she shared a first attempt of the snowman progression animation from a group of her students  https://twitter.com/ebaumi/status/830508019901403136

Just for Grade 4

• Fourth graders finished their bedroom paintings: Artsonia Art Gallery - Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights) Paintings
• They left a blank space in their painting so they could digitally enter their artwork. See these: Artsonia Art Gallery - Entering the Bedroom
• They made a short green screen video while they were entering their bedrooms. They were pieced together into these class videos:  
• 4-1 https://vimeo.com/200105573
  4-2 https://vimeo.com/200417849
  4-3 https://vimeo.com/200901156
  4-4 https://vimeo.com/200260118
• 4th graders are working on their animated glow projects (see my post). 
• They finished their profile portraits. View them here: 

Just for Grade 5

• Finished portraits: Artsonia Art Gallery - 5th grade Self-Portrait Painting (see my post for resources and information).
• Read what 5th graders are saying about their Now and Then portraits Artsonia Art Gallery - Kindergarten-vs-Fifth Grade
• Students used graphic design techniques on the iPads to put themselves on the cover of Newsweek. View them here: Artsonia Art Gallery - On the Cover of Newsweek
• See what these 5th graders had to say through their art in this tweet, and this tweet, and this tweet.
• See 5-1's one day stop-motion animation challenge: 5-1 Stop Motion on Vimeo
• The 5th graders became engineers as they invented an automated art-making machine during our STEAM Art Bot challenge thanks to a ABC/25 foundation grant.
• Fugleflick Filmmakers finished their movie about taking care of the art hanging in the school hallways. Watch "Don't Crush My Dreams"  here.