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| Congratulations, Roxie, on winning 1st place!!!! |
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| Andrew was the winner of 2nd place! Great job! |
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| Congratulations to Emma for the 3rd place prize! |
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| Honorable Mention was awarded to Kiley! |
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Monday, December 14, 2015
Meet our WINNERS!
The Mountain Valley Arts Council has announced the winners of the Christmas Card Contest. AES GATE 4th graders won EVERY award in the 4th grade category! Congratulations to these students! A reception was held Friday night in their honor. All entries will be on display during the whole month of December. Please drop by to view the children's art. I am so proud of each of these students. Kids' art makes me happy!
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Stick names add color to our classroom
Each year we start with an art activity for students to share their creativity and personality with their friends. These pieces of art will hang in our classroom from the ceiling all year giving the students a little ownership of room 408.k Students used a variety of colors and designs to decorate popsicle sticks then they were blue together to shape their names. The only rule was that each name had to have at least one DOT somewhere. I want the students to remember celebrating International Dot Day at AES 2015! Gracyn's name is full of color and DOTS! #DotDay #acsdotday #Makeyourmark
Brannon painted his name in his favorite team colors! Can you guess who he cheers for during football games?
Alexandra LOVES cats!!! If you look closely you will see that her name is painted to "look like an OCELOT!" Great idea!
I am experimenting with using Animoto to create videos. In the "free" Animoto only 30 second videos are made...so I'm going to create several really short videos to see how we like the look. Pardon our progress as we try different technology in class! :)
Group 1 Girls
Group 1 Boys
Group 2 Boys
Group 2 Girls
Group 3 Girls
Group 3 Boys
Friday, May 22, 2015
Recycled Bottle Cap Art
Friends and family of GATE have saved bottle caps for an art mural project for a year! You may have wondered what the bottle caps were for or what the final product would look like. We finished this week and it is beautiful! There were many steps to this art project and the students were diligent to complete each step. First of all they saved and saved and brought caps to school. Then we had to sort and sort and sort to have them separated by color.
All GATE students drew out an idea for our mural. Most of the ideas were of flowers, butterflies, and nature or an ocean scene. We decided to combine many of the flowers in the kids' art to create our final mural. It took lots of patience and hot glue to place the bottle caps in exactly the right spot....and I am proudly ready to present our bottle cap art mural for 2015!
This piece of art measures 45 inches tall and 93 inches wide! It is hung outside Mrs. Sheets' office for all to see and enjoy. Each GATE student had a part in sorting and gluing bottle caps to create our mural. We have many bottle caps left, so in 2015-2016 school year, we will create the ocean mural that the students designed. I can't wait!
Please enjoy this short slideshow of "the making of our mural."
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Inspire Art Contest Reception
Several of our GATE artists were honored at the Marshall Medical Center Foundation Artist Reception in Boaz at MMC South on Thursday, April 30th. Winning art work has been framed and will hang in the hospital for one year in the lobby of the Women's Center. Artists were awarded ribbons and were treated to a reception with all kinds of yummy goodies. Albertville City School System was well represented with students from Big Spring Lake, Albertville Primary, and Albertville Elementary! Congratulations to all students!
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Inspire Art Contest 2015
All 3rd and 4th grade GATE students had the opportunity to enter a piece of art in a Youth Art Month contest sponsored by Marshall Medical Center Foundation. Students designed each piece of art and chose their medium: watercolors, acrylics, collage, colored pencils, markers, or crayons. We had about 60 pieces of art which were so colorful, happy, and creative. Judges looked over each piece of art and selected the 15 pieces that would represent AES in the MMCS contest. These 15 were submitted this week and we hope to have some winners from our school (results should be in around the first week of April).
The artists whose work will advance to the contest:
Evan Patterson Levi Hester Ethan Williams Olivia Brothers
Lily Laverty Caroline Godwin Victor Reyes Ainsley Stephens
Destiny Thomas Courtney Morrow Belinda Franco Ethan Pratt
Michele Cerrillo Kailyn Boman Brandon James
Please check back later in April to see if we have any AES winners.
Below is a slideshow of the students creating their artwork and also the finished products. Enjoy this happy, kid-friendly art!
Friday, February 13, 2015
Taste of Albertville
G.A.T.E. students shared a little creativity with the city of Albertville. Our city will be hosting the Taste of Albertville event on Thursday, February 26th from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. at the Crossroads Mall. Organizers of the event asked if our students could create art with a "food" theme. Our art will be on display for silent auction or door prizes. Part of the proceeds of this event go to Meals on Wheels in Albertville. If you visit this event, please look for our G.A.T.E. "food art!"
This color collage of cupcakes is really cute, isn't it!?
All G.A.T.E. students created a cupcake from "pretty papers." These were made into two pieces of art: the one above for the Taste of Albertville event and one that will stay at AES.
I love it!
Yukina, 3rd grade, created the art above and Ava, 3rd grade, created the art below using a bunch of CELERY to paint the flowers and OKRA to paint the stems and leaves.
Fourth grader, Lily, created this HUGE HAMBURGER collage. Yum!
Michele, 3rd grade, created the fruit bowl above using oranges, limes, and okra as paintbrushes. This precious torn paper watermelon was created by Sam, 3rd grade.
All of this art will be on display at the Taste of Albertville! Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Reindeer Art
These cute little reindeer are visiting our class right now! Thanks to the generosity and artistic talent of Mr. Terry Morrow, 4th grade group 1 had the opportunity to have a painting class where he taught us how to paint a reindeer. I love how the personalities of the kids really came out even though they all had the same directions!
We are fortunate that Courtney will share her grandfather with our class!
Please enjoy this slideshow of this class painting their version of a Christmas reindeer!
Click below to view.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Special Guest...Mr. Morrow Visits GATE!
4th grade group 1 had a special guest today...Courtney's grandfather! Mr. Morrow, a retired art teacher, spent a couple of hours in GATE today. He brought gourds that a friend had shared with him. He also brought many art supplies that the students would need to create their painted gourds. The students had a great time designing each individual gourd. We had polka dots, monograms, bats, sports teams, and even a dinosaur gourd!
Thank you, Courtney, for sharing your grandfather and his artistic talent with us! Another fun fact about Mr. Morrow...his wife is our AES librarian, Mrs. Armorette Morrow! We all had a great time and look forward to another visit from him again soon!
Please enjoy this slideshow of today's painting.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Circle Creations by 4th Grade GATE
Isn't this a FUN piece of art!? 4th grade GATE students each had a part in creating a circle of their choice! Students painted circles of their choice of size, color, design, and placement. This is what happens when 30 students paint 30+ circles! I love it! This art is hanging outside the GATE classroom where all students can enjoy this happy work of art. Each 4th grade GATE student can take pride in this project because EACH student played an important part of this art!
Friday, September 26, 2014
What would YOU DO with lots of plastic bottle caps?
Thousands of plastic bottle caps....
...a recycling project....with a twist of art....
What would YOU create?
G.A.T.E. students will be collecting, sorting, brainstorming, planning, and creating this year...
STAY TUNED
to see what our students will decide to create with colorful, recyclable bottle caps!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Our latest masterpieces...Torn Paper Self-Portraits!
I love students' artwork! I really do! It just makes me happy! Personalities of the students really shine through this art activity. Students tear scraps of construction paper to create an image of themselves. These look so much like the students!
We paint their hands in the color of their choice for the mat around the pictures and they are precious! These portraits will decorate the hall outside my classroom for a while ... then they will come home. I hope you will find a place for these pictures on your refrigerator, in a frame, or propped up where you all can enjoy your child's work of art!
Please enjoy this slideshow below of the creating of these self-portraits and the final product!
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
It's almost time....THE BEGINNING OF SCHOOL!
....a work in progress...
It's that time of year...the time when teachers head back to their classrooms to dust and shine, reorganize, plan, and decorate! The past two nights I have been in my classroom getting things "back to normal" to start our school year in GATE.
Check back often to see more about what I have in store for GATE students at AES. The picture below is the beginning of my bulletin board outside my classroom. I am excited about the many possibilities we will encounter as we use higher order thinking skills, research methods, and most of all our CREATIVITY to learn and create
FOLK ART!
Friday, April 11, 2014
INSPIRE WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Congratulations to our AES students who won awards in the Marshall Medical Center South's Art Contest!
1st place - Kayla Romero
2nd place - Jensyn Seay
4th place - Olivia Wood
Foundation Choice Award - Kinsley Little
Foundation Choice Award - Lily Laverty
These students will be honored at a reception on Thursday, April 24th at 6:30 p.m. at the Women's Center of Marshall Medical Center South. Their award-winning art will hang in the Inspire Art Gallery for one year.
Congratulations!
Thursday, March 20, 2014
INSPIRE Art Contest 2014
Each year Marshall Medical Centers celebrate Youth Art Month by sponsoring a student art contest. The theme each year is INSPIRE. G.A.T.E. students use higher order thinking skills to help guide them through this process. They use PRODUCTIVE THINKING to think of all the many, varied, and unusual things they could paint or draw for this contest. Our students are great productive thinkers and have many ideas to choose from. Next, they use DECISION MAKING skills to decide which idea they will use and also which medium with which to create their art. These thinking skills will help them in life -- now and as adults!
Students could choose watercolors, acrylic paints, pastels, colored pencils, markers, crayons, or torn paper collage. AES G.A.T.E. students participated in this contest. Our school is allowed to enter 15 pieces of art. Judges had a hard time deciding which works of art would represent AES! Congratulations to the following students:
4th grade
Jaylee O'Dell
Kinsley Little
Tristan Golden
Jensyn Seay
Kayla Romero
Olivia Wood
Adyson Brandon
Emma Currier
Marianna Aguilar
Daniel Pall
3rd grade
Evan Patterson
Alex Watts
Lily Laverty
Ainsley Stephens
Courtney Morrow
Marshall Medical Center South will host a reception for winners of the overall contest in April. We hope some of these students will be winners for this competition! Winning artwork will be hung in a special gallery in the Women's Center of MMCS. Check back soon to see a list of MMCS Foundation winners!
Please enjoy this slideshow of students creating their art!
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Now showing...Every Child is an Artist !
Now showing....proudly announcing.....(drum roll, please)......the Every Child is an Artist collection of original art created by 3rd and 4th grade GATE students! My students have been busily creating art to donate to the Albertville City Schools Foundation. The Foundation supports teachers and students in our school system in a variety of ways: funding teacher grants, providing needed supplies or necessities for students, etc. We are so thankful for their leadership and guidance for all our schools!
As a service project, our students have shared their gifts and talents of art and creativity in 5 pieces of art that will be a part of the "Evening of Art and Appetizers" on March 6th. This morning four of our AES Ambassadors presented our art to the Foundation.
After searching for ideas online and brainstorming what type of art and supplies the students wanted to use, we proudly present the following art:
Love is...
23.5 inches x 29.5 inches
Watercolor quilt type collage
4th grade GATE
Rainbow Sticks
24 inches x 28 inches framed
acrylic painted popsicle sticks
Created by 3rd and 4th graders
Abstract Awesomeness
3 individually framed pieces
12.5 inches x 27.5 inches
abstract watercolor strips collage
Created by 4th graders
REACH!
24 inches x 30 inches
canvas collage
watercolors and acrylics
Created by 4th graders
Every Child is an Artist
24 inches x 28 inches
framed watercolor quilt type collage
Created by 3rd graders
We hope that our artwork is a huge success at the art auction! We are proud to be a part of this fundraiser supporting the Albertville City Schools Foundation who greatly supports all of our schools! Please come and support this worthy cause!
An Evening of Art and Appetizers
March 6, 2014
Preview 6:00 p.m. Auction 7:00 p.m.
Big Spring Lake Golf Club
$25 per person/$250 Corporate table
Business Casual Attire
For ticket information, please call
Kathy Henderson 256.894.5040
American Red Cross
Our 4th grade GATE students also created a piece of art to donate to the American Red Cross of Marshall County's "Touch of Red" event to be held on March 7, 2014. Mrs. Tara Wilson, Special Education Coordinator for Albertville City Schools, is on the board of the Red Cross and will present our art for part of their silent auction. Emma and Kayla presented this art to Mrs. Wilson earlier this week. We hope the Red Cross loves our "Little Touch of Red in our Hearts" piece of art!
I am proud to be able to support worthy causes in Albertville and share the talents of my students while at the same time providing my students with the opportunity to look for ways that they can make a difference in our community.
Enjoy this slideshow of the creating of our art
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