Art Education

Welcome back to Ms. Brenna’s Artists Alley!

I have to say it’s been lovely watching all of your projects wind up as we approach the end of the school year!  You have all worked so hard and I know you’ve learned a lot about Art in Culture in various different ways.

The Grade 1/2 students have been busy learning cultural dance steps and choreographing their own sequences to cultural music. Rm 5 has been learning traditional Filipino dance moves, Rm 7 has been learning Colombian dance moves, and Rm 1 has been learning South African gumboot dance moves.  I look forward to taking them all to perform for the elderly at Misericordia Place this month.

Highlighted in this months’ Artist Alley are the grade 2/3’s. They have been finalizing their Word Art and it looks great! They have lots of different languages being explored by these students, overall excellent work!  

Rm. 21 is making great progress on their healthy/unhealthy habitat art as we push towards finishing these creative pieces up!  Rm. 17’s coil bowls are entering the kiln which is an exciting and nerve wracking process as we find out how well we attached all our pieces together. Hopefully they all come out in one piece but if they don’t we will do our best to attach the pieces back together. The grade 4/5’s still life art skills perspectives study continues to impress me as students work through each art type and explore the use of the various art elements in this extensive artist collection they are making. The grade 5/6’s are finishing/finished their stained glass art and I will be taking the planets to get fired at Prairie Stained Glass shortly. I honestly can’t wait to see the results so I hope you all are excited as well! Rm 13 is also practicing their hip hop dance which they will also present alongside the grade 1/2’s. Rm 18 is rounding out the year with some quick art skills studies of their own.

This has been a wonderful year! Please keep stretching your artistic muscles over the summer. Build a sand castle, do some drawing, turn plants into art, but whatever you do stay creative! I wish you all the best this summer.