Mt. Vernon Elementary School
Mt. Vernon, Missouri
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
I traced students profile using an overhead projector on black paper. The students cut them out and glued them to the si ...
   
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May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students painted different valued green stems the first day, then finger printed the blue and white blossoms the next. T ...
   
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May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students used watercolor to paint the branch and show a darker value making a shadow. Next they used red and white tempe ...
   
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May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students cut large geometric shapes from paper. Using primary colors in spray bottles, students sprayed then moved the s ...
   
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Free Expression (35 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Any work created on their own time.
   
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1st Grade Leaf Bowl (43 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students printed leaves on the clay that was alteady rolled out into a circle. Then they used a wooden needle tool to cu ...
   
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Kindergarten Pinch Pot (54 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students got their first hand in clay with this sweet pinch pot lesson. Students were given lumps of clay that they had ...
   
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Kindergarten Insect (17 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students have been learning about insects in their homerooms, so I added to it by having students make their own insects ...
   
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2nd Grade Cupcake (37 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students used styrofoam cups, wadded paper towels, and Model Magic to create these almost sweet enough to eat cupcakes. ...
   
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May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students used a styrofoam square to draw out their chick, then design it, taking care to press the styrofoam deep enough ...
   
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May 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students used wax paper to paint and print out their parrot onto the black construction paper. Students were thrilled to ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Janey Hood
This is the black light version of the cool/warm fish.
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students looked at various pictures of fish and their environments to draw out with a yellow crayon. Once drawn out stud ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Janey Hood
After talking about values and what tints are, students chose a paint color and added white to it (we all know that we s ...
   
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2nd Grade Fruit Painting (74 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students used the color finding techniques used in the crayon drawing, to paint a fruit in watercolors.
   
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2nd Grade Fruit Drawing (71 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Using crayon layering techniques, studens learned to look carefully at fruit to see hidden colors and values, and duplic ...
   
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1st Grade Penguins (75 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Janey Hood
See last year's. description.
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students start by looking at Jim Dine's art. After discussions , students mark their papers to get the 6 squares. They p ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Janey Hood
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2nd Grade Safari Collage (70 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Janey Hood
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Feb 2013, taught by Janey Hood
After reading Snowmen at Night, and a demonstration on blending with pastels, students created their own snowman doing w ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students were introduced to Cubism through various artists including Picasso. I had students draw an animal (including i ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Janey Hood
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Jan 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students used the wet on wet technique to paint 3 squares with three analogous colors, then after drying, cut out circle ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Students started with a green loom and wove red and white paper strips across to fill the page. When finished, they cut ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Janey Hood
Oh boy! This was a fun one! I started with the kindergarteners by showing how to apply a wet on wet watercolor techniqu ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Janey Hood
After a power point about Wassly Kandinsky, students experimented with mixing paint colors to create their Kandinsky Cir ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Janey Hood
Students viewed Georgia O'Keeffe flowers to see how close up she painted her flowers. Students used views of flowers to ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Janey Hood
I sat pumpkins on each of the tables for students to observe. We talked about the different values on each pumpkin start ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
Students were introduced to the artist Laurel Burch and her colorful design-filled cats. Students drew out their cats an ...
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
Kindergarteners used oil pastels to draw a pumpkin from observation. Students studied the pumpkins to see the slight dif ...
   
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2nd Grade Spider Web (68 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
After looking at different spider webs and discussing complext patterns, the students drew out their own webs using meas ...
   
 
Mrs. Turk's Class Work (24 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Conn's Class Work (29 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
This is always one of the favorites of teachers and students! We read about how to make a pizza and all the ingredients ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
Students saw examples of Piet Mondrian's artwork, and noticed three things all of Mr. Mondrian's work had in common. Bl ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
After looking at Claude Monet's Japanese Bridge and seeing examples of Japanese bridges from photos, the students create ...
   
 
Oct 2012, taught by Janey Hood
After seeing a version of this on Pintrest, I had students ink up their palms with green, and fingers with blue paint an ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
Students looked at various Aboriginal paintings to see how the artists used dots, and only dots to do the paintings. St ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Morris' Class Work (40 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Ellis' Class Work (178 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Lasater's Class Work (213 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Miss Elmore's Classwork (56 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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1st Grade Collage Owl (77 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
The first grade theme this year is the owl, so I decided to have the students create this sweet owl collage. Students ...
   
 
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
For Kindergarten's first project, we studied different kinds of lines and practiced making those lines on the Smart Boar ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
Students listened to music (Beethoven's 5th and Chopin's Nocturne) and practiced dancing with their paintbrush before ad ...
   
 
Mrs. Harmon's Class Work (85 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Lee's Class Work (75 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Brown's Class Work (166 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Mrs. Zent's Class Work (103 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Janey Hood
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Non-Exhibit Artwork (9 artworks)
Sep 2012
   
Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
Artwork Exhibits - 2 years ago (July 2010 - June 2011)
Artwork Exhibits - 3 years ago (July 2009 - June 2010)
Artwork Exhibits - 4 years ago (July 2008 - June 2009)
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for this school year ... state nation
4311 artworks #13 #144
379 fanclub members #45 #671
298 comments #17 #192
38 artist statements #35 #727
  overall rank #22 #350
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School Awards & Honors
  2011-2012 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #3 in Missouri (#37 in the nation) for art published among all schools
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #4 in Missouri (#60 in the nation) for comments posted among all schools
  2011-2012 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #3 in Missouri (#31 in the nation) for art published among elementary schools
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #4 in Missouri (#53 in the nation) for comments posted among elementary schools
  2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #9 in Missouri (#204 in the nation) for artist statements collected among elementary schools
view all awards (11 awards in all)
 
Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Alyssa5872
awarded on 10/21/2012
 Calvin763
awarded on 1/23/2013
 Gage1180
awarded on 4/24/2013
 Andres673
awarded on 11/19/2012
 Daxton17
awarded on 1/8/2013
view all awards (257 students in all)
 
Recent visitor comments ...
Oh Jordan.....This is a great cupcake idea to try sometime! I love it! -- Linda
left for Jordan8821
Kiana, I love this beautiful picture of flowers and the butterfly! You are such a good artist! Love, Aunt Ona -- Aunt Ona
left for Kiana526
WOW!!!!! This is terrific Gino! You did a fantastic job on this one! -- Granny
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Recent artist statements ...
The kitty is so cute.
written by Tristen620
My owl is quiet and has good eyesight.
written by Chance1002
I think my owl is very cute. I think when something has big eyes it looks cute.
written by Reese659
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