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February 19, 2017

Second Trimester Newsletter in Dryden's Art Room

from Mrs. Fuglestad

General Information:

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

?Stay informed:

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 1st Grade

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 2nd Grade

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 3rd Grade

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 4th Grade

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 5th Grade

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.

Artsonia is the largest student art museum in the world! Our dream is that every young artist will have an online art gallery, preserving their masterpieces in a digital portfolio!

eNewsletter: February 19, 2017

eNewsletter:

February 19, 2017