Welcome to the Art Department at Dare Elementary for the 2008-09 School Year
I am very excited to be working with your students again this year. Although we try to keep your child's clothing clean and free from paint stains, we don't always succeed. Please try to understand if your child comes home with some stains on their clothing.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten students will begin the year with a Shape Collage which teaches them how to fold, cut, paste and turn one shape into another using the primary colors of red, yellow, blue with black and white.
First through Fifth Grade
First through Fifth Grade students will all be creating Self-Portraits, each grade using a different medium or technique. First and second graders will be cutting and pasting, third graders will be tearing paper, fourth graders will be using a pastel and glue technique and fifth graders will be using a value scale of whites, grays and blacks.
Mrs. Brusts' Class
Mrs. Brusts' students have already sponge painted a school bus and created their names with dots of colored paint. They have also completed a little red school house with 6 sponge painted figures.
IPOP
Our littlest students in our IPOP class, will be exploring with play-doh for their first art class and making caterpillar real apple prints for their second class.
Please take the time to look at any art work on display in the hall and compliment your child on his or her efforts.
The art room is always in need of boxes of tissues and pump hand soap. Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Here are some web sites for art museums:
www.chryslermuseum.com (Chrysler Museum,
Norfolk)
www.pfac-va.org
(Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News)
www.vmfa.state.va.us
(Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)
www.childrens-museum.org
(Children's Museum, Portsmouth)
www.hamptonu.edu/museum
(Hampton University Museum, Hampton)
www.wm.edu/muscarelle
(Muscarelle Museum, Williamsburg)
www.vamuseums.org/museums_dir.asp (alphabetical
list of all museums in Virginia)
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