The Cardboard Challenge!!

The Cardboard Challenge!

Everyone was so creative and it was So neat to see families and friends work together to build incredible things!

A dog house for their yellow lab- what a lucky pup!

We had all kinds of cardboard and supplies.  Collecting it all was a great team effort that included help and donations from Dublin City Schools staff members, families, and local businesses!

A take on the game "Operation"

Bailey students have Great creative and innovative ideas!

Fueling creative play is one of the most important things we can do to prepare children for the future. It develops valuable 21st century skills and prepares kids to be next-generation innovators.

I loved seeing parents work with their children to make ideas become reality!

Click "Read more" below to see a Lot more pictures of the event!

4th Gr. Expressing Emotion through Art

Expressing Emotion through Art

Students started this project by exploring the use of the Elements of Art: Line, Shape, and Color and ways to use them to express emotions, mood, and feelings.  We discussed abstract art and then listened to the song "I will remember you" by Sarah McLachlan and drew different lines and shapes to express ways they felt while listening to the music.

Next, we looked at famous artworks by Kandinsky, Van Gogh, and other artists and discussed ways the artist created emotion, mood and feeling in their artwork.  

We discovered that there are three basic ways artists express emotion in their art: 1. subject matter 2. colors used 3. paint or art material application.  Students then listened to the song "I will remember you" by Sarah McLachlan and painted their artworks.

I love how different and unique each of these artworks are!

We then had a class critique where we viewed everyone's artwork and discussed it.  

Students were to 1. Choose an artwork that stood out to them 2. Explain why it stood out to them 3. Guess how the artist was feeling when they created it and explain why they thought that.  Students communicated with confidence and had a great time talking about each other's art!

We even made it on the Bailey website!

Awesome job 4th graders!!  

Click on the "4th Grade Art" tab to see more awesome student artworks!

Art Gallery

The "Art Gallery" is a place for students to display artwork that they made outside of art class.  It is new this year and it has been so neat to see some of the artistic things students are up to!  

There is one family that is participating in the 2015 Lego Design Challenge hosted by the Columbus Museum of Art: http://www.columbusmuseum.org/lego-contest/  They created an awesome treehouse out of legos.

One student was photographed by artist Mike Tizzano who is now starting to create a bronze sculpture of her holding a rabbit.  It will be displayed at the Columbus Zoo when finished!!!!  

SO COOL!  Keep on bringing in things to share bulldogs!

5th Grade Zentangles on Marbled Paper

Zentangle on Marbled Paper (Suminagashi)

For this project, students learned about Japanese Paper Marbling and made a beautiful piece of marbled paper by placing Sumingashi inks on top of a still surface of water and delicately blowing across the surface to swirl the inks.  Each marbled paper is unique or a Monoprint. 

These papers are Gorgeous!

 Students drew Zentangles on top of their marbled paper.  Zentangles are really neat because they are always unique and include lots of patterns and drawings all put together.  It is a fun and relaxing way to draw using lines, shapes, and patterns that increases, focus, creativity, and hand-eye coordination.  Students also learned about the Elements and Principles of Art and chose Principles of Art to showcase in their artwork.

This student chose to demonstrate the Principles of Art: Pattern and  Balance in her artwork.

 Other Principles of Art include Pattern, Emphasis, Variety, Unity, Balance, Rhythm and Movement, and Proportion.

We are currently working hard on these.  More pictures to come later!!