Thursday, May 10, 2012

Kennerly's First Day of Fine Arts!

Thanks for celebrating our first annual Day of Fine Arts with us at Kennerly on April 26, 2012!  Visitors were treated to musical performances by each grade level, as well as a whole-school Art display in our grand hallway and Art room.  We had tons of visitors to the Art exhibition!!  Thanks for visiting our show, and congratulations to all of our student artists!

Monday, March 26, 2012

African-Inspired Masks in Third Grade Art

 


In third grade Art class, we created 3-dimensional masks inspired by African masks.  First, we looked at a powerpoint of photos of African masks and discussed their uses and how they look.  We paid special attention to the geometric shapes, since third grade is studying that in math.  Next, we drew our own masks on tagboard, cut them out, added decorations with markers, construction paper, and raffia, making sure to include at least three different geometric shapes. 

Friday, February 24, 2012

Dress Like Mrs. Mikolajczak?

What does Mrs. Mikolajczak look like?  If you visited Kennerly on "Dress Like a Teacher Day," you would have seen at least four great examples of what she wears, including her name tag and (most importantly!) a pencil behind her ear or stuck in her ponytail.  You always have to be prepared when you're an Art teacher!



Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Art Show Coming to Kennerly in April!

Our Kennerly All-School ART SHOW is coming up soon!  This year it is Thursday, April 26, 6:30pm, here at Kennerly.  Each and every Kennerly artist will be represented.  Please check out our video from last year and plan to join us this year!

Video of photos from last year's Art Show

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

In fourth grade Art class, we have been weaving on looms.  Here are some photos of works-in-progress and finished products, including some weavings sewn into pillows.  We also have audio of one of our fourth-graders giving directions for weaving on a loom.  Just press play!


Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Spreading Christmas Cheer to Joplin

The past few days, our Kennerly "elves" have been busy creating holiday ornaments to send to Joplin as part of "One School, One Cause."  During Art class, fifth-graders met with their second-grade buddies to design, paint, and glitter heart ornaments.  Later, some fifth-grade students helped hot glue them to sticks the fourth-graders painted in their homerooms.  We hope they will spread hope and cheer during a difficult holiday season.  Happy Holidays!


Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Fifth Grade Castle Sculptures

Fifth Grade Castles

We created paper castle sculptures in fifth grade to learn about architecture and paper sculpture with tabs.  After we designed the structures, we decorated with construction paper crayons, scraps, stickers, and fake spider webs.  Some students even added working drawbridges!  Check out our slideshow:
http://www.kizoa.com/slideshow/d2045585k5457382o1/fifth-grade-castle-sculptures