Line drawing: hand

Zentangle

After a lesson on line and shading, students can explore Zentangles. The links below take you to an image search for Zentangles on Pinterest, and a great video for creating Zentangles.

Pinterest image search for Zentangles.

Video tutorial for creating a Zentangle.

It's That Time of Year Again!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, as performed by Gene Autry

12 Days of Christmas

Must Be Santa, as performed by Raffi

Christmas Time! as performed by Harry Kindergarten

Tree landscape

For this Grade 6/7 art lesson, we will learn about perspective. Students will use watercolours, tissue paper, and ink to create a winter snow scene.

Gift bows

Making bows out of magazines

(From the blog How About Orange)

Make nine strips of paper out of a magazine page. Try to use a page that has all colour on it. The strips should be 3/4 of an inch wide. Leave 3 of the strips full length, cut one inch off of the next three strips, two inches off of two strips, and the final strip should be three inches long (3 + 3 + 2 +1).

Loop eight strips as shown above and secure with glue, holding on for a few seconds so the glue sets. Curl the smallest strip into a circle. Assemble all the pieces from largest to smallest. The first layer make a six point star, and the final layer is the circle in the middle.

Puffy Snowmen: Grade 2/3

Grade 6/7 art projects

Music sheet wreath

(Via Pinterest: as shown on http://missmustardseed.com/2011/09/packages-pillows-paper/)

Snowstorm 

(Via Pinterest: as seen on http://www.designsponge.com/2010/02/diy-project-sarahs-snowflake-panels-light.html)

Queen - We Will, We Will ROCK YOU!

Can you sing and perform a rhythm at the same time?

Monster Mash Karaoke

Happy Hallowe'en!

In the Jungle

For Ms. Oliver's and Mrs. Obal's classes, here is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" with lyrics for karaoke.

Living statues

Last week all classes learned some vocabulary around emotions and used their faces and bodies to show their feelings. Students had a chance to act for an audience of four and for the whole class, by themselves and in a small group. This week, we will be exploring the concept of living statues and tableau. Students will learn the skills of holding a position, maintaining an expression, and using their bodies silently to express a "living" picture. Some examples below show us "living statues."

Waltzing

All classes are learning about 3/4 time and waltzes this week. Students are playing a variety of instruments along to different waltz songs, identifying whether or not a song is a waltz, and learning how to dance the waltz in partners. The following video shows some fancy footwork for dancing the waltz.

B/eat it

Writing lyrics is sometimes a difficult process. This week we will be re-writing lyrics to very familiar songs (such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) and maybe some of our favourite songs. We will try to perform the re-written song for our classmates. Then, as a class we will decide on a champion and have the whole class sing along to the new lyrics.

To help us think about this process, we have the karaoke version of "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, and the lyrics to "Eat It" by Weird Al Yankovic.

Eat It by Weird Al Yankovic

How come you're always such a fussy young man

Don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisin Bran

Well, don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan

So eat it, just eat it

Don't want to argue, I don't want to debate

Don't want to hear about what kind of food you hate

You won't get no dessert 'till you clean off your plate

So eat it, don't you tell me you're full

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

Get yourself an egg and beat it

Have some more chicken, have some more pie

It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried

Just eat it, eat it,

just eat it, eat it

Just eat it, eat it,

just eat it, eat it, ooh

Your table manners are some cryin' shame

You're playin' with your food, this ain't some kind of game

Now, if you starve to death, you'll just have yourself to blame

So eat it, just eat it

You better listen, better do what you're told

You haven't even touched your tuna casserole

You better chow down or it's gonna get cold

So eat it, I don't care if you're full

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

Open up your mouth and feed it

Have some more yogurt, have some more spam

It doesn't matter if it's fresh or canned

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

Don't you make me repeat it

Have a banana, have a whole bunch

It doesn't matter what you had for lunch

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

If it's gettin' cold, reheat it

Have a big dinner, have a light snack

If you don't like it, you can't send it back

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

Get yourself an egg and beat it (oh lord)

Have some more chicken, have some more pie

It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

Don't you make me repeat it (oh no)

Have a banana, have a whole bunch

It doesn't matter what you had for lunch

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

4/5s Bach - Minuet in G

Using rhythms sticks, clavas, wood blocks, triangles, bells, cymbals and drums, the Grade 4/5 classes will be playing along to Johann Sebastian Bach's Minuet in G.

Human Beatboxing

This week we are learning about rhythm and beat boxing. What is beat boxing? It's using your mouth and voice to make sounds like a DJ. We will be learning to establish a steady beat (using rhythm sticks), add in bass rhythm (using hand drums), and effective syncopation (using castanets). We also will be using our voices and microphones to make beat boxing sounds. Boot city cat city!

Graffiti Name Art

We are making our name art for the Fine Arts room in graffiti style, working on the skills of lettering, 3-D, and shading. Below is a video to help illustrate (ha!) these skills.

Survey for 6/7s - Wert

Here are some of the results from the survey we took on our first day of class together:
We will be studying Drama, Dance, Music, and Art. Which of these is your favourite and WHY?

I think I like Drama the best but only by like 1% all the others I love to! The reason I like like drama the best is because i like acting and also I kinda think it runs in the family my dad didn't do any drama but my brother has don allot of drama and I think is going to acting school.

I like dance and art. I like dance because i am in dance and i am a verygood at it and i like art because i just like doodling and drawing

drama and art because ive never realy been one to like dance i like playing the flute but we will not be playin :(

Drama because think it is full of great expieriences and dance because i love to dance and art because i like drawing and music because i love to sing kinda and listen to it.

i like art and music and i dont like dancing it takes to much efort.

art because I don't like drama or dance and music is ok ant I like doodling

drama because it is very fun to do,dance i am in dance and it is also fun,music i love and last year i played the trombone,

Dance and Music. I like to dancing and playing music

MUSIC, It's my life

Drama is my favourite because I love to act......

art because you can do different things.

Music because i really like to play the clarinet

i like dance because i like to move to a beat and i also like music cuz how can u dance with no music

i like dance and drama because i love music to dance to when i work......Drama i love acting and dancing.

Drama because I like to act like some I am not

Music because i am AWESOME at the drums

music because that is the only thing i am good at

Music cause I play the piano

music because i ve had lots of experience

I do not have only one favorite but I do have 2 art and dance . I do not know why!!!!!!!

Music because im AWESOME at it!

music, because music if fun to listen to and dance is fun too

Is biking art? (for Julian)

This video is for Julian in Grade 6 who asked if biking is art. What do you think?

Survey for Grade 6/7s - Riemer

We took a web survey on our first day of class. Here are some of the results:

#2. We will be studying Drama, Dance, Music, and Art. Which of these is your favourite and WHY?

Music is my favorite because i listen to it allot

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of it because it is all fun to do

Music because I like music.

I like drama because actor always look like they are having so much fun on stage.

all of them are my favorite because drama,dance,music and art are my passion and i love them all

art because it is fun painting

Dance and Art. I can be creative and have lots of fun.

music because I'm best at but i still love all the other fine arts

Music, because i am good at it like like listening to it

Music is my favourite because I already learned the alto saxophone in grade 5

Drama, because I like being in plays and on the stage acting.

Art because it calms me down and it is very entertaining to me.

Dance is my favourite because i dance in a studio and it is so fun!

music because you get to sing and stuff

i like all of them a lot but if i had to choose i would say music because i love to play different instruments.

Drama!!! You get to have so much fun & just act. I love acting and i've tried out t John Robert Power Studio in Calgary & I got in, but I never actually went the full step... Just auditioned. I actually made it in 2x but, again never went in. Besides my brother, in his school, he has drama (And my brother isnt a very big actor) But he just loves it!! I Love Drama!

My favourite is dance because there is sooooooo many types of dance.

art and dance because I use to dance and i like drawing because it is differnent

Art is my favourite because i love to draw and doodle and colour! :)

art

Well I love to draw and dance and music but i have never really tryed to do drama before really

Dance because I love it, and it makes you just feel the rythym and the beat!

music

Dance, because I love to dance and I think it's really fun!
music because i always listen to it