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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago- Thank you UMS!


Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Last year Ms. Machida (retired Music Teacher) and I earned the DTE School of the Year for Arts Integration. In honor of us receiving this award we were given free tickets to a UMS performance. The performance our 3rd and 4th Graders saw was The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. It was amazing. The images that are below are drawing the students did after the performance. The drawing mannequins were put in different dance poses. The background was inspired by Marc Chagall's American Windows which was used for inspiration for the performance.

American Windows were created to celebrate the country as a place of cultural and religious freedom, dealing with the arts: music, painting, literature, theater and dance.

Third Grade



Fourth Grade






Art at Reichert: October to February

Students from Fourth, Third and Second Grade have artwork at St. Joseph's Reichert Center in Ann Arbor. Below you will find work from Carpenter Elementary via Mrs. Giltner, King Elementary via Ms. Wayne, Logan Elementary via Ron Williams and Lakewood Elementary via Mrs. Leonard. More student works will be up in November from Burns Park Elementary via Mrs. Higgins.  And there is work by students from Skyline High School via Mrs. Hendrick in the upstairs gallery.

Carpenter's 2nd Graders- Hundertwasser Trees
Carpenter's Third Graders- Fall Trees
Carpenter's 4th Graders- Hundertwasser Buildings
King's 4th Graders
Logan Elementary
Logan Elementary
Lakewood Elementary

Fifth Grade: September- October

My Fifth Graders have Art once a week for 61 minutes. I try to combine their Science and Social Studies as best I can.

Architectural Pop-ups

My Fifth Graders first project was inspired by a book my brother gave me this summer while he and his family were visiting us from Germany. The book is Paris: A 3D Keepsake Cityscape by Sarah McMenemy. They spent a lot of time making the buildings on one paper and the background on another. Below you will find some of their amazing work.








Day of the Dead Skulls

Fifth Grade students made Day of the Dead skulls. Students had to be aware of the spacing of the eyes, nose and mouth. They decorated their skulls to reflects their own artistic interests.





Fourth Grade: September- October


Fourth Graders have Art for a or a 1 hour session for more traditional Art and a 38 minute session for a Humanities Art class that integrates their Social Studies and Science with Art. This year the Common Core expectations of Math and Literature will also be integrated into their Art class.

Hundertwasser Buildings

The first project was inspired by Hundertwasser who was an Eco-Architect from Austria who designed houses and buildings in a way that they did not impact the environment. For instance he would replace the ground space he used for his buildings by adding it to the rooftop in the form of parks and gardens.




Koi Fish

The students in 4th Grade will be studying about The Watery Earth. Students created their own Japanese Koi paintings. We discussed how non-native species can threaten the environment as well as native species. 




  


Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Last year Ms. Machida (retired Music Teacher) and I earned the DTE School of the Year for Arts Integration. In honor of us receiving this award we were given free tickets to a UMS performance. The performance our 3rd and 4th Graders saw was The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. It was amazing. The images that are below are drawing the students did after the performance. The drawing mannequins were put in different dance poses. The background was inspired by Marc Chagall's American Windows which was used for inspiration for the performance. 


American Windows were created to celebrate the country as a place of cultural and religious freedom, dealing with the arts: music, painting, literature, theater and dance.




Third Grade: September-October

My Third Graders have Art for a or a 1 hour session for more traditional Art and a 38 minute session for a Humanities Art class that integrates their Social Studies and Science with Art. This year the Common Core expectations of Math and Literature will also be integrated into their Art class.

Self Portraits 

To begin the year students did a self portrait. Recalling what they learned last year students created a self portrait to the best of their ability. I will be using their portrait to assess their growth at the end of the year.





Fall Trees


Third Graders created fall trees and sunsets after looking at the work of Gustav Klimt an Austrian Artist who I was lucky enough to see his work in Austria. We discussed how trees cast different shadows during the day and that the also vary on the time of the year it is.





Constitution Day

On September 17th the Third Graders were introduced to the Constitution. We discussed how this document is important to Americans. We talked about different symbols that might symbolize America or the United States. Students came up with the American Eagle, the White House and the Statue of Liberty. We decided to do a portrait of the Statue of Liberty. 




Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Last year Ms. Machida (retired Music Teacher) and I earned the DTE School of the Year for Arts Integration. In honor of us receiving this award we were given free tickets to a UMS performance. The performance our 3rd and 4th Graders saw was The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. It was amazing. The images that are below are drawing the students did after the performance. The drawing mannequins were put in different dance poses. The background was inspired by Marc Chagall's American Windows which was used for inspiration for the performance.


American Windows were created to celebrate the country as a place of cultural and religious freedom, dealing with the arts: music, painting, literature, theater and dance.




Egypt

Third Grader students did a unit on Egypt. Students made shadow puppets, learned the hieroglyphs, created mummy cases and created an Egyptian self portrait. Students created shadow puppets to help them understand how and why shadows exist. While students created their puppets they wanted to do a play with them.