The Art Connection

Kindergarten Art
Students are learning basic art concepts: primary colors, mixing colors, warm and cool colors. These will come home at report card time in their portfolios marked, My Kindergarten Art.

First Grade
Howdy Partner!! The Hobby Horses are complete and cowboys and cowgirls were seen all over the halls.

Second Grade
Students made portraits of a snowman. In February, we made hand stamped valentines which should have come home. We are currently working on a poster honoring St. Patrick and St. Joseph

Third Grade
The students are currently working on an Easter themed project. Students should finish next week. This project will have taken 3-4 week to complete and will be sent home for you to see. It is a project that involved cutting, painting, poetry and reinforcement of Catholic ideas.

Fourth Grade
This grade level chose to do more Paper Mache. Students could choose whatever they wanted, some are doing their initials, others are continuing with animals and some are making piggy banks.

Fifth Grade
Students are doing paper mache letters.

Sixth Grade
Finished an outer space project and now we are working on an Ancient Greek cross curriculum with social studies, religion and gym. In art students are learning about Greek pottery and are making their own Amphora’s.

Seventh Grade
Recently learned how to “pray in color.” These prayerful, drawing projects are displayed in the hall.

Eighth Grade
Had an opportunity to finish their Ministry Fair posters in Art Class. Students are making a “stained glass” window of their saint, using paint. Finally they have begun to work on the art work for the Memory Book.

1st Grade begins work on Hobby Horses

Grace Green completes her beautiful tissue paper pointsetta and nativity collage.

These are a few of the 4th graders working on their Paper Mache Animals. This project was a cross curriculum. Students learned about animals in class, broke into groups or worked individually in library to research their animal and then made the animals in art class.

1st Grade
The 1st graders did a service project which is now mailed and on its way to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. Using their very best printing they wrote a note to a recovering soldier and inserted it into a card with a finger painted snowman on the front.

Grade 2
Made Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer with their hands and feet as the pattern. The students also made a very special painting which will be used in the Christmas Music Show.

Grade 3
Made candy cane cards and learned the Christian meaning of a candy cane. They are currently finishing up a snowman’s head and should be bringing this home this week.

Grade 4
Are putting the finishing touches on their paper mache animals. The project turned out really well and many will be displayed at our Open House in January.

Grade 5
It’s all about Bunco! We are working on a quilt which will be raffled at the Ladies Guild Bunco Night on January 23.

Grade 6
It’s a surprise-but when complete it should find its way to your tree.

Grade 7
Has been working with air dry clay. Their special nativity scenes are currently on display in our hallway.

Grade 8
8th grade is finishing their memory project which will be on display during Open House in January. Their Christmas project is to illustrate the 1st Nativity.

I hope all St. Linus families enjoy this season of Advent, when we remember that Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, came to us as a child. This is THE WORD made Flesh, who came among us to illustrate what LOVE is. May you feel the warmth of the Holy Family within your home this Christmas. May you see the face of Jesus in your own children.
May God’s love surround you and bless you in the New Year. Thank you for entrusting your children to the staff at St Linus. I am honored to be here with them each day.

The Art Room is in full swing. Hopefully all parents enjoyed receiving the 1st quarter artwork that came home in the students portfolio.

Every grade level is beginning each class with a 5 minute warm up drawing. This is to fire up the right side (creative side of the brain). Similar to a warm up before starting a sports event. The students seem to enjoy it. Hopefully, this will help them improve their drawing skills.

At every grade level we are doing less step by step instruction projects and more projects that will foster the students’ individual creativity.

First and Second Grade are doing an Indian unit in preparation for Thanksgiving.
Third Grade is doing a step by step directed project and hopefully you will see some pilgrims arrive just in time for your Thanksgiving table.
Fourth Grade did a report on animals and are busy in art making a 3-D version in paper mache. This is a challenging and a very creative project. Students have to build the "frame" to put the paper mache on to, paper mache the project-1 layer /week, so it takes at least 3 weeks and finally painting it to look like their animal. Sheep, dogs, bunnies and hawks are all starting to emerge.
Fifth grade is busy on their CD covers and beginning the quilt for Ladies Guild Bunco party.
6th Grade will be starting something new after exploring the works of the Abstract Expressionist.
7th grade is busy with sculpture-both clay and paper mache-students were able to pick which medium to work with.
8th Grade are developing a Memory into an artistic expression these are very interesting and I am excited to see them all finished.
Additionally three 8th graders painted a chair with a patriotic theme and it was used for our Veteran's Day assembly.

Kinders are having the letter A reinforced with a coloring project. We will be doing a haunted house that will reinforce shapes and enhance listening skills.

Grade 1 finished a Halloween scene. This week with the Oct 13 anniversary of Fatima the children learned about Fatima and what Mother Mary said and did when she appeared in Portugal to the 3 young children. The art project this week is about what they learned.

Grade 2 will be finishing their unit on caterpillars and butterflies.

Grade 3 is making “paper bag” pumpkins-this is a simple technique for this grade and will prepare them for next year’s 4th grade level paper mache projects.

Grade 4 has started the “bones” for their paper mache animals. This is a cross curriculum with library and science.

Grade 5 will be beginning a quilt sewing project to be raffled at the Ladies Guild Bunco party in January.

Grade 6 is beginning a lesson on the Abstract Expressionists of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. This art was highly controversial in it’s day because it was questioned if it was really “art” or just splatters that anyone could do. The students will paint in the style of Jackson Pollock the leading American Abstract Expressionist of this time.

Grade 7 has begun “select a project” some are drawing and painting, some sculpting with paper mache and others are sculpting with air dry clay.

Grade 8 has begun a memory project. Developing 1 memory into an artistic expression.