Art

Art Show Friday October 8th

Please join us for our school wide art show next Friday night!  It will take place during the Fall Festival in the cafeteria.  All students will have a masterpiece framed and on display.  Framed pieces are available for purchase ($25.00 for the first frame, additional framed pieces are $20.00).  Proceeds from this event fund lots of wonderful art projects and experiences for our students.  New this year-teachers and staff are showing their skills too!  Come check out the artistic talents of your teacher. 

Check out the following list to see what each grade level will have on display:

Kindergarten-Hand print trees

1st-Cityscapes

2nd-Bicycle Drawings

3rd-Pop Art Ice Cream

4th-Cezanne Style Still Life

5th-Line and Shape Bird Designs

Pop Art is popping up in 3rd grade

Third graders have been busy studying Andy Warhol and all of his POPular art subjects.  They have created a Pop Art Ice Cream painitng which will be on display at the art show Oct. 8th.  Currently we are working on a group installation of the famous Soup Cans.  Look for over 100 Soup Can paintings to be on display soon!

  
  

Welcome Back to School!!!

I hope everyone had a great summer and is excited to get back to school.  I am ready for a great year and I have lots of exciting things planned for art class.

There are several new additions in the art room this year.  Karina Cordisco is our new art paraprofessional.  I am so excited that she is here!!!  As most of you know Karina is super talented and creative and she will be a great addition to our art program.  She will be here in the afternoons during 3rd grade, Kindergarten and 5th grade.  Welcome Karina!!!

Also, we have brand new tables and stools.  They are awesome!  All of our young artists look very professional  as they work in this new space.  I am very thankful to be able to work on large papers with the kids without having to move them to the floor.  Come by anytime to see the new and improved art room.

Finally, we also have a new SMART board in the art room.  I am still learning how to use it.  It is going to be a great tool for the kids.  We can visits art museums all over the world, play art history games, plan out our compositions and countless others resources are available to help us meet all of the art standards. 

I am looking forward to a wonderful year.  If you need to contact me for any reason please email me at

lisa.casey@cobbk12.org

Earth Day CANtest

Wow!!  Thanks to everyone who participated in our Earth Day CANtest.  I am amazed at all of the creative students here at the park!  We have incredible projects currently on display in the Media Center.  On Thursday, April 22 we will move the can creations into the Cafeteria for our judges to select winners in 5 different categories.  We had such a wide variety of cans, everything from planters to robots to working lights and everything in between.  It will be so hard to pick! 

What a great Earth Day celebration we will have with all of our cans on display!  Everyone who participated will have ice cream Thursday afternoon and take our projects home.  Great job Park Panthers!  I am so proud of you for being good to the Earth by turning trash into treasures!

Check out a few of the can creations....

 


 
 

Earth Day CANtest

Look for a can to come home with your child this week!  We have an exciting Earth Day Project scheduled for Earth Day April 22nd.  Details are as follows:

Earth Day is April 22nd and because we are so proud that Sedalia Park has gone GREEN this year, we are having an Earth Day CANtest.  The cafeteria staff has recycled hundreds of cans and your job is to turn them into something wonderful.  Each student can transform their can into anything they like.  It can be a functional piece or an artistic sculpture.
 

Students may enter an individual piece or work as a group.

Items can be added to the can or placed inside of the can but the can must be used as part of the design.

ALL ENTIRES MUST BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL BY TUESDAY APRIL 20th-no late entries will be accepted.

All entires MUST have the form below taped to the bottom of the can.  No exceptions.

All entries will be displayed in the Cafeteria on Earth Day which is April 22nd, judged and then returned to the student on Friday April 23rd.

Winners will be announced in the following categories:
"Best Design"  "Most Creative":"Best Use of Materials" "Most Functional" and
"Best in Show"

 

School of Fish

A BIG thanks to the volunteers who helped get the 5th grade fish in place. Mr. Davidson, Mr. Donley, Mr. Harris, Mr. Michel and Mr. Casey all worked very hard to make sure the fish were securely hung and they did a great job!!!!! The fish are beautiful and the kids are very proud of them!  We still have about 30 fish to hang (some are still in the process of being made).  Once the wall is complete the students will be signing a clay plaque to hang in their honor.  I will post pictures of our final art installation when everything is in place, but I thought everyone might enjoy seeing some shots of the fish being made. 

Art Help Needed! Dads-this is a great way to get your 5 hours of volunteer time!

If you have a drill we need you!  5th grade is creating large clay fish that we plan to permanently mount on the wall between the 4th and 5th grade hallways. This will be a great art exhibit for the 5th graders to leave behind for future park Panthers to enjoy.  We need several volunteers who are able to drill concrete screws and anchors into the wall to help us get over 100 clay fish in place.

I will work around your schedule.  If you can come, I will meet you-early, late, weekends-you name it.  Even if you can only hang a few we still need you!  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Email me at lisa.casey@cobbk12.org or respond to this blog if you would like to help.  We will start hanging the fish the week of Feb. 15th and will keep going until they are all up.

If you can't come to help us but have some knowledge or advice that might be useful please email me.

I look forward to to hearing from lots of Park Families, together we can create something amazing!

Guest Artist Visits the Park

Thanks to PTA we were able to once again participate in Cobb County's Artist At School Program which brings professional artists into our school.  This year our visiting artist was Michael Harper, a comic book artist.  He spoke to Kdg.-5th grades about how he became an artist, how comic books are created and how we can all improve our own drawing skills.  The kids had a great time!  3rd and 4th graders are going to be creating their own super heroes in art class soon.  Look for their creative creations to be on display at the Park.

Update on Young Masters

All of the Young Masters orders have been delivered and sent home with your children.  I hope that you were pleased with the products.  I know the kids were proud of what they created!  If you have any questions about your order or need more information please let me know.  Thank you for supporting our art program here at Sedalia Park!

Birch Tree Paintings

Be sure to check out 4th grade's Birch tree paintings, now on display.  Students used tissue paper and liquid starch to create the background.  They used either warm (red, orange, yellow or brown) colors or cool colors (blue, green, purple) for their sky.  We learned that the colors an artist uses create the mood for their work.  The horizon line in these paintings is very high, creating a large foreground for the birch trees.  The trees were painted on white paper strips and then applied to the background.  You should be able to tell from the shadows where the sunlight source is in these pictures.  They are very beautiful!  Great job 4th grade!