Fall 2010 Final Show

After working on portfolios to bring all of their work home, our students welcomed their families and friends into the art room for our final show.
Our Moore students proudly displayed their young students work, and Shannah added an extra special touch by making fun hats that said "Ask me, I'm an artist" to help identify our young creators.
All enjoyed this very special event!

Carissa's Creatures

Goal: Students will learn about Native American masks and how animals
often inspired them. Students will incorporate the elements of art into their
masks. The students will start by coloring in their mask with marker, and then
going back in and collage paper onto the mask with glue.

"My experience teaching the younger kids went very well. I was pretty nervous because this was really my first time teaching and being in charge of a classroom. I felt that the children were really engaged throughout my motivation and they responded well to all of my questions. Overall, the entire lesson went pretty smooth, although I wish I would have emphasized coloring in their masks first and leaving no white showing through on their mask (unless that was intentional of course, and part of their animal). During my lesson a young boy was scared of an image of a poisonous frog on my Power Point, and when the time came to start the mask he kept saying he was scared. I told him “why don’t you make an animal mask that fights of the poisonous frog?” He seemed to respond well to this and he made an animal called “devil eagle” It fights off the poisonous frog so that the frog could never hurt the young boy. I felt that I was successful in prompting the children when they were stuck. Overall I had a wonderful experience, the children have beautiful minds and wild imaginations that I love." - Carissa

Cherise's Surreal Family Portraits

"This was a lesson on surreal family portraits. The students were shown visuals of famous families, real-life and cartoon. These slides included traditional portraits and action shots of families such as, the Obamas walking their dog, the Simpsons watching TV, and Shrek’s family sleeping. Finally I presented them with a PhotoShopped picture of the Obamas walking their dog on the moon. This was the basis of the lesson. The students portrayed an everyday family activity in a surreal environment. My hope was to make the students more aware of the background vs. the foreground and the figures vs. the environment they are placed in.

My experience with the older students went very well. I was very excited to see how engaged and involved they were in the motivation. I was a bit skeptical about incorporating vocabulary into the lesson. I only used two words that related to the theme of the lesson: “surreal” and “environment.” The boys clearly understood everything and they seemed to enjoy making the work. That more than anything is what I’m proud of."

-Cherise Sistrunk