• STEAM night  Family STEAM night: ArtBots - Dryden Art (Picts and video)
• AHML Art Show and Reception AHML's 25th Art Show for D25 - Dryden Art
  • AHML Art Show 2017 on Vimeo (slideshow of picts from reception)
  • Thinglink of Display board
• Art Room ABC/25 fundraiser: Sophie's iPad Animation Party - Dryden Art
• Don't Crush My Dream Fugleflick news: Festival and NextVista.org Winners
• Special Animation Strange Magic (paper cut stop motion) - Dryden Art
• National Art Education Conference NAEA 17
• Creativity in Art presentation: Creativity in the Classroom - Dryden Art
• iPad Workshop: iPad and STEAM workshop in Michigan - Dryden Art

Just for Kindergarten

• Kindergarteners finished their wonderful self-portraits: Artsonia Art Gallery - Kindergarten Self-Portrait
• Students made symmetrical Wear-a-Bows for the Kindergarten Tea. Artsonia Art Gallery - Wear-a-Bows
• Students learned the Kindergarten Song for the K-Tea. It reviews some of the things they learn in art. Here are the lyrics: Fuglevision - Kindergarten_Song
• We are currently working on a still life drawing of flowers in a vase.

Just for Grade 1

• A student was in the running for Artist of the Week on Artsonia. Thank you for voting. Artist of the Week
• 1st graders made White Spot Inspectors (their little invisible friends that inspect their artwork to see if they left any white spots) Artsonia Art Gallery - White Spot Inspectors
• Students learned the parts of an insect and drew these Cute Critters
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Cute Critter Sketches
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Colored Cute Critters by 1st Grade
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Flying Critters
• Students took the iPad outside for a nature photo. These were used as the backgrounds for their animation. Yep, they made their insect fly!
• • 1-1 Flying Critters on Vimeo
  • 1-2 Flying Critters on Vimeo
  • 1-3 Flying Critters on Vimeo
  • 1-4 Flying Critters on Vimeo

Just for Grade 2

• Rotational Symmetry with Legos - Dryden Art
  • Rotational Symmetry with Legos on Vimeo
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Rotational Symmetry with Legos
• Strange Magic (paper cut stop motion)
• Sophie's iPad Animation Party - Dryden Art
• Sophie’s iPad Party on Vimeo
• 2nd graders spent a long time making these very beautiful and complicated drawings/paintings of themselves embracing a different friend. Read their artist statement to find out who they are with and why. Artsonia Art Gallery - Different is Good
• Students imagined being a superhero defending a pillar of character as they learned how to make these graphic designs on the iPad Artsonia Art Gallery - Superhero Silhouette

Just for Grade 3

• Third graders made a wish for the word in the style of the LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana. Artsonia Art Gallery - Our Wish for the World
• They used the wordfoto app to express their reason for chosing their one word wish for the world Artsonia Art Gallery - Our Wish for the World in Wordfoto
• Students posed with their favorite Dr. Seuss book and used observational drawing skills for these portraits Cat-in-a-hat-ifying Ourselves - Dryden Art
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Cat-in-a-hat-ified Sketch
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Cat-in-a-hat-ified Digital Paintings
  • These were printed out as bookmarks so they could put themselves reading a book into the book they are reading.

Just for Grade 4

• 4th graders made amazing animations unlike anything you've ever seen before Animated Glow - Dryden Art Lesson
• Artsonia Art Gallery - Animated Glow Aliens
• Animated Glow by 4th grade on Vimeo
  • Animoto - 4-1 Animated Glow
  • Animoto - 4-2 Animated Glow
  • Animoto - 4-3 Animated Glow
  • Animoto - 4-4 Animated Glow
• View pictures from our trip: Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip 2017 - Dryden Art
• We had fun with Whistler's Mother before we saw it in person on the field trip Whistler's Mother - Dryden Art
• See how 4th graders prepared for the trip to the Art Institute of Chicago Prep for the Art Institute of Chicago - Dryden Art
• I wrote a grant for special beads, cord, wire, and clasps so students could make these amazing Clay Pendants: Clay Pendants - Dryden Art
• Artsonia Art Gallery - Clay Pendants

Just for Grade 5

• Have you seen this Fugleflick yet? Don’t Crush My Dreams on Vimeo
• NextVista.org winner: Don't Crush My Dreams: Winner! - Dryden Art
• See these filmmakers at the festival: Screen Test Jr 2017 on Vimeo
• 5th graders made clay Additive and Subtractive masks: Artsonia Art Gallery - Additive and Subtractive Clay Masks
• After making Art bots, students posed with their bot and the art it created for these digital collages Artsonia Art Gallery - Art Bots and their Engineers
• These funny and creative pun-filled digital collages are a MUST SEE. Thumbtastic Digital Collage - Dryden Art Students expressively spoke a thumb, finger, or hand pun through their digital collage:
  • 5-1 Thumbtastic Collages on Vimeo
  • 5-2 Thumbtastic Digital Collages on Vimeo
  • 5-3 Thumbtastic Collages on Vimeo
  • 5-4 Thumbtastic Digital Collage on Vimeo
  • Artsonia Art Gallery - Thumbtastic Digital Collage
• We revisited our portrait sketches to learn a new skill, value drawing. Artsonia Art Gallery - Value Drawing
• Students tried out a new way to create a class animation; a rotoscope. We used a Flipbookit.com system for making our digital results physical. When we crank the handle we see the animation just like the old-fashion mutoscopes of the late 1800's. Check it out here: Rotoscope in a Retro Mutoscope - Dryden Art
  • Rotoscope in a Mutoscope on Vimeo