Mrs. Knoblach's Art Room

First Grade Hatched Eggs last week, and we celebrated with a painting about a Hen, Eggs, and Chicks.

These are Andalusian Hens, they have black and white feathers and Red Crests.

Beautiful Bree proud of her Hen!

Kindergarten Summertime Self Portraits

4th grade TROUT TUNNEL BOOKS

They are working on a series of progressivly smaller cut frames that will have text around them. The center of the book is the trout drawing, and then the pages after will be about the trouts life after we release them.

Third Grade finished their beautiful cut paper Washington D.C. Scenes. Now we are starting a study of Positive and Negative Space Seashells.

 Fourth Grade is working on a Tunnel Book. We are having them relate the story inside the book to what they are learining about in Science. Some classes are making Brook Trout stories, some are making Duckling stories. Both are equally adorable.

HAPPY KENTUCKY DERBY WEEKEND!!

I have some fun horse related lessons I have been saving all year for this special week in May!

Here is on that involves overlapping, and color families.

Monty is ready to Run for the Roses!

The sixth Grade Clay Assessment is underway this week. Fairfax County Fine Arts Department designed a lesson to test the students ability to make an abstract sculpture representing items on a planned food menu. The students were to brainstorm what kind of sculpture they would like to see outside a restaurant with the name “Tastes of Nature”.

I thought that the Students turned in AMAZING efforts, this was not an easy project. I’m very impressed with their clay sculpting skills and creative imaginative ideas.

First grade is working on a Spring Flower made of Running Stitiches.

We all recite  ”under, over, pull thru” as we make our way around all the petals of these sweet little flowers.

 Great work First Graders!

A Planning page. Students brainstormed ideas before inserting final names beneath painted circles.

5th Grade is making a very interesting project for the next two classes. I have challenged them, after a discussion about fun paint color names, to come up with a color chart of their own. We looked at several famous paint brands online, and read how they name their colors.  It was so fun saying the name of a color out loud, letting the kids picture it, and then revealing the true hue. 

They will work making names, making colors and painting this challenging, fun lesson for two class periods.

Guess how I spent my Spring Break!

2nd Grade made ENORMASS flowers today!

3rd Grade is studying Simple Machines. We learned how to draw them, and made them repeat all over the page.

can you find all the Levers, Pullys, Incline PLanes, Screws, and Wedges??

4th Grade, in celebration of spring,  made beautiful garden paintings.

We focused of Crops that Grow in Virginia, of course!

I love how they look, and the paintings will hang in the hall of Frames for the 4th quarter.

First Grade made their paper bag Cherry Blossom Trees today. They took a regular brown paper lunch bag and twisted it into a tiny Cherry Blossom Tree. We then stuck on tissuepaper blossoms and took them home

Monty’s first bath of the Spring.  He stayed clean for about five minutes… oh well:)

At our All School Field Trip on April 18th 5th Grade will be visiting the FDR Memorial.  I thought and thought about what we could make to get them excited about seeing one of the best sites in D.C. and its finally hit me!! Scottie Dog!!!

FDR’s loyal Scottish Terrier “Fala” is always a crowd favorite, and I knew the classes would like to make a mini “Fala” out of clay.

Woof Woof

6th Grade Started printing their Monument Print Blocks today. They made beautiful images. So clear, and easily recognizable. I was very impressed.

2nd Grade is Working on their animal research project. Each student has selected a special animal to research for the spring. We made stencils of the animal, and then painted them in.

4th grade made a beautiful class mural of the a Cherry Blossom Tree. It’s spectacular!

My dog  Molly, and her new dog house. think she likes it??  hahaaaa

Fourth Grade is continuing their study of Figure Drawing. We used my Wooden Mannequins to pose and practice our sketching on multicolored paper with colored pencils.

6th Grade is conituning their Linoleum Block Printing. This week they are working on carving the negative space of the image.

3rd grade made a set of two FACES. We studied the theory behind Complementary Colors and Analogous Colors and made faces for each kind of combination.

5th grade painted scenery for their Medieval play this week. We need 8 panels of castle walls done in one class.

Way to go guys!

I had a great Horse Show this past weekend. Monty did fabulously!

Here we are after we finished our last Jumper Course of the day. Monty wanted to go again!

Kindergarten is Studying the 7 Continents this Month, so I thought how about we conqure them all!

Students painted a small Globe on White paper. Cut it out, and then used a seperate peice of paper to draw them selves and glue the little “Me” on top of the world!

SO SO fun and just as I pictured myself in Kindergarten

First Grade learned a little about how Colors Interact with eachother. We read “An Eye for Color” the story about Josef Alders.

we then painted our own color blocks, and had the best time mixing and making some magnificent work.

This week all serious work gets tossed aside for the wonderful fun of making Dr. Seuss themed art full time. Its one of my most favorite times of year, and I enjoy teaching the artists at Haycock how to draw all the fun characters from their Favorite Dr. Seuss books.

Kindergarten made Fox in Socks!

First we drew and cut out the socks. Then we drew the face of the fox, and made a cone nose for him.

We then glued the nose and socks on the paper, and painted his face red.

Mrs. Agrawals students helped me color a Lorax and Truffula Trees!

I taught the Third Grade how to Draw him. We colored it, and took it home.

Horton in Second Grade!