Week 15

ECA friends created a collaborative art piece completely driven on their own without the help of the guides. This included crumbling tissue paper and gluing it on a large piece of art paper. 

ECB created jellyfish after looking at different types of jellyfish in their study of the oceans. This project involved cutting and gluing tissue paper bodies and cutting and gluing pieces of yarn for the tentacles.

ECC is exploring music by using a keyboard through creative expression. Friends are learning to distinguish high and low sounds. This also helps strengthen the hand muscles for writing. 

LE collaborated and created a salt map of Pangea as well as a salt map of Laurasia/Gondawanaland to go along with their classroom study of the formation of the supercontinents.

ME learned the art of making sushi!  They spread the rice on the seaweed, put the ingredients of their choice on top, and then rolled their sushi all while learning the vocabulary in Spanish.

Sushi by Natalie

UE finished their mosaics by grouting them. 

Mosaic by Brooks

Week 14

ECA is practicing their cutting work to help them develop the control and coordination necessary for later cutting activities.

ECB explored creating art with a marble that went along with their study of the primary colors.  The children squeezed drops of primary colored paint in the center of the paper and then moved the container to roll the marble through the paint, creating the design. 

ECC created a mosaic of dots to create intricate detailed patterns.  This work also helps strengthen the hand muscles for writing and performing practical life activities. 

LE learned about the work of the master artist, Claude Monet. They created their own watercolor inspired by Monet’s love for painting water forms.

Monet Inspired Watercolor by Kate

LE also received the final piece of the collaborative fall art they did with Kolidiko.

ME did a Mandala Project to honor someone or some place important in their lives.  It was a way of giving thanks by designing with the most universal shape of all, a circle.  Students chose particular symbols and colors to make a fitting dedication, and learned several ways of working with radial symmetry in the process.

 

UE continues their study of religious art by focusing on Byzantine art.  This week they designed and created mosaics inspired by the Byzantine mosaics.  They enjoyed smashing pieces of tile to add to their artwork!

UE also visited the Nashville Symphony to observe a rehearsal of All That Classical Jazz by George Gershwin.  


Human faces have always fascinated artists. Beginning with just an oval, Middle School artists recently utilized a variety of materials and sources to create collage portraits. We looked at portraits and self-portraits made by other artists and discussed the importance of correctly perceiving the proportional relationships of eyes, lips, noses, and ears. 

Self-portrait by Rebecca

Week 13

In ECA, students do a sewing activity while learning the vocabulary in Spanish:  aguja (needle), hilo (thread), nudo (knot), coser(sew), cortar (cut), tijeras (scissors).

ECB created a representation of the Earth's core with red as the inner core, orange as the outer core, yellow as the mantle, and black as the crust.  The students are creating these through pin punching, using a push pin to create the shape, which strengthens the three-finger grasp.  This is a continuation of our study of the Earth's core, providing the students with the opportunity to experience the lesson in another form, incorporating movement and fine motor skills.

ECC took some time during November to study the beautiful season of fall.  Each child created their own unique fall tree using paper bags and torn pieces of construction paper.

LE kicked off their study of printmaking this week.  Using leaves that have fallen on campus, the students did positive and negative prints.  They used a gelatin base and rolled ink on it. They then placed leaves of their choice on the ink.   When they pressed their paper on top, the paper soaked up the ink from the gelatin.  This gave them a negative print of their leaves.  They then removed the leaves and did another print  to give them a positive print of the leaves. 

Leaf Prints by Isabella

ME visited the Nashville Symphony to watch the dress rehearsal of Fairy Tales and Fate.

UE finished their Islamic art patterns.  

Turtle by Chris

MS saw another great performance at TPAC,  Nearly Lear.  “Imagine the great and tragic story of King Lear as it might be told by the King’s closest companion.  In this one-woman tour-de-force, actress Susanna Hamnett plays the Fool – and every other character – using exuberant storytelling that showcases her virtuoso theatrical craft.  Nearly Lear is filled with breathtaking hilarity and heartache, honoring the beautiful language of Shakespeare while taking a bit of poetic license.”

AC Art created “bark” paintings inspired by the Amate Bark Paintings used by the Otomi Indians of San Pablito, Mexico.   

Digital art finished the video of UE’s TPAC Study Unit.  Check it out at http://youtu.be/rw3dcSvkUXg