New "ART Online" Item Added!

Look to the left of this post and you will see all the fun Art Games or "Art Online" as I like to call it. 

**If you are viewing this from your phone- you may not be able to see the links**

I've added several new games!

One of my favorite new ones is Clay Yourself!  Give it a try.

**Remember Mrs.Bremer's rule: NEVER put your name or any information about yourself out on the Internet!**

This week in ART!

Kindergarten has been very busy finishing up their owls!  Look for them in the halls!

We started a new project to go along with the fall season and the tradition of carving pumpkins to make jack-o-lanterns!

First, Kindergarten mixed yellow and orange paint and painted a pumpkin!
Next, they cut out their pumpkins to improve on their cutting skills and glued the pumpkin to black paper.
Next, they drew out eyes and a mouth, cut, then glued them onto their pumpkins.
Finally, they cut teeth, a nose, and eyebrows out and glued them on to complete their jack-o-lanterns!

Look for them at home soon!  Hopefully you can display them for Halloween!

Check back soon for some finished projects!

We JAMMED Out Today!

JAM World Record is a FUN campaign to rally EVERYONE to pause and take just a minute for a fitness break.  This campaign is dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of making activity a daily habit, ensuring our kids learn healthy habits at a young age and our schools have access to quality physical education programs.  Click here for more information!

Click here to see the jammin' video that we jammed to!

This week in Art!

First grade has been working on learning about the primary, secondary, warm, and cool colors.  We focused on the warm colors for the new project.

Today 1st grade painted!!

We used yellow and red paint and mixed them to create ORANGE!!  They painted leaves on their trees then folded their papers in half to make a monoprint!

Ask you child to tell you about the mixed paint and the monoprint!

First Grade Started A New Fall Project!

We started this lesson out by reading "Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf" by Lois Ehlert.

We discussed the primary colors red and yellow and how they mix to make orange.  Orange, red, and yellow are warm colors. 

We talked about the fall season and how colors in nature change from cool colors to warm colors. 

We started the lesson by drawing trees.  Check in with you child to see what will be our next step.

ALL first grade students will NEED their art shirts by next week!  This can be simply an old T-shirt of yours.  Just something big enough to cover up their clothing while we paint.

Kindergarten started a new fall project!

We started this lesson by talking about two primary colors (red and yellow) and how they mix to make orange.  Orange, red, and yellow are the "warm colors".  We also practiced our tracing, coloring, and shapes!

In the days to come we will be starting the fall project related to this.  In this new project, we will learn about texture, lines, colors, and shapes.

Keep your eyes open for the new fall project soon!

This Week In Art...

Kindergarten and 1st Grade were busy being assessed on their art standards!  This is so I can see what they remembered from last year and what we will need to work on more for this year. 

Below is a first grade student finishing up their assessments.

Here are a few examples for Kindergarten completing their pattern assessing.

They started with a pile like this:

Then had to show me a "2 color" pattern like this:

Many of them knew color patterns.  In the upcoming weeks we will talk more about patterns and challenge them with more advanced multiple colored, shapes, and line patterns.

You can help by practicing with them at home!

 If you have Lego's, this would work great for color or shape patterns.

Another fun and easy way to make patterns is with stickers.

This Week In Art

This week in art we talked about many art elements. 

In First Grade we talked about the Primary Colors (red, yellow, and blue).  First grade learned that these three colors can mix to make other colors!

We also read the book "Mouse Pain" by Ellen Stoll Walsh.  In this story the mice learn what colors you get when you mix the primary colors!  See if your child remembers which colors mix to to make other colors!

In Kindergarten this week we learned about SHAPES!  The four shapes we will be focusing on most are: square, triangle, circle, and rectangle.  See if your child can draw a picture of each!



Have a GREAT weekend- we'll see you back on Monday!! 

This week in art...

This week in art I met all the Kindergarten and 1st grade students! 

I can already tell this is going to be a GREAT year!

This week, we toured the art room and talked about "art class".  We also talked about our summers.  Your child will be bringing home the artwork they created representing "their favorite thing this summer was..."

We read a book called The Art Lesson by Tomie de Paula

Ask your child to tell you what happened in the story.

I hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend!  See you back on Monday!

Meet Mrs. Bremer!

Hello!  I am Mrs. Bremer

 

I am the art instructor here at Halverson Elementary.

I have been teaching in this school district for 8 years!  I currently teach K-5th grade art at Halverson

If you have any quesitons for me through out the year, please don't hesitate to email or call.

Click here to see all my contact information on the district website!

Together, let's make this the best year yet for your child!

Welcome Back to School!

With the first week down, we're off to a GREAT start! 

I can't wait to see all your smiling faces back here on Monday!

ALC | Pointalism is in full swing!

We started out the QTR talking about basic art terms (elements and principals).  Then we focused a little closer on color.  Our first project was a monochromatic collage.  The purpose of practicing that was the intro into mixing all the tints and shades for our pointillism painting.  They are coming along nicely if I do say so myself!

 Keep your eyes open in the halls for their monochromatic collages and soon their finished pointillism paintings!

3rd Grade | Completed Fish Sculptures

3rd grade finished up their fish sculptures today by using warm and cool colored paint to do so.

They will be going home next week so keep your eyes open for them!

5th Grade | Balance Review

Today 5th grade watched a few short videos to review what balance is.  The 3 different types of balance we reviewed were: symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial.

See below the student hard at work.

1st Grade | Froggy

First Grade’s

Froggy

Two of the standards in first grade art are:

- Use variations of lines, shapes, colors to express ideas

- Demonstrate use of overlapping to show space

In first grade we talk about what lines, shapes, and colors are.  We discuss what they look like and how to use them to make a work of art.  Applying what we learned from previous lessons involving line, shape, and color, we made frogs to celebrate the spring season!  To go along with this lesson we read Froggy’s Sleepover  by Jonathan London. 

Each student began by making their own freehand sketch of a frogs head.  They then drew feet and cut out all parts.  A fun part of this lesson is making the accordion legs!  After they finished attaching all feet and legs, they completed their frogs with googly eyes and a mouth of their choice.   In addition to all we learned in this lesson, it was also great practice using our scissors and glue!

See all the completed Froggy's below!

Aren't they SO cute!

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