Thanksgiving Break

Art Club Students are the heart and soul of Parkway!

Thanks to Mitzi Willis for all your help!

We had a successful day painting the windows at Parkway Elementary at the beginning of Thanksgiving Break.  I don't imagine I could call the past week I have had a "break".  

The first Sunday of Thanksgiving break, I met my Art Club Parents, students, and a few Teachers on campus and we got our creative juices flowing!!!  We painted the front windows of the campus in festive holiday decor.  I could not have asked for better volunteers.  They worked their hind ends off for me and I am so pleased with the results.

We used plain ol' latex house paint.  All in all, I spent about $300 on paint, mostly in pints.  I only bought one gallon of paint and that was for the white.  This will do the windows probably 2 times.  I actually plan to use the left over paint to decorate the bathrooms across from my classroom in inspirational quotes.  You know the ones...."be the rainbow in someone's day."  

That of course will have to wait for Christmas Break!  

Here is a little peak at how our day went!  

First Meeting of Art Club

We had a blast our first meeting of the 20018-19 PTPE Art Club!  We have started our first project and are super excited to display it in the hall. 

We are creating a hot air balloon from a worms eye view. It is pretty exciting.  We are talking about shading, perspective, and scale. We will display them on the ceiling of the Art/Music hall at Parkway for a bit and then they will not reemerge until the EOY Art Show.  It will be one of my favorite displays I can already tell!!!!

Thank you for sharing your child with me this year.  I have a spectacular group and am excited about the work they will produce.

First Art Club Meeting!!

We have had our first Art Club meeting and it was a great success!  Thanks goes to Cassie Stephens for this amazing chalk lesson.

 Chalked Fish inspired by Sandra Silberzweig!

Although we did not use black glue as she instructed, they still turned out great!!!

We traced some hastily done fishy templates with a pencil and traced over them with a black oil pastel.  We then filled our fishies with warm chalk pastel colors.  Using the black oil pastel we divided up the background into different spaces and filled each of those in chalk pastel cool colors.  Students "massaged" the chalk into the paper with small circular motions and I love them how they turned out!

They really did an amazing job!!

2017-2018 Art Club Application

Click on the link below to download a PDF of this year's Art Club Application.  Hope this is helpful for those who have lost the copy I sent  home.

Art Club is for 3rd & 4th Graders only.

Until I can figure out how to upload this application without allowing you to edit, please do not change this application.  Just print it and fill it in by hand.

Return it to Parkway Elementary by September 15, 2017.


2017-2018 Art Club Application