Art Room Discoveries with Mrs. Smullin

Happy New Year Golden Hill Eagles!  I can not believe we just welcomed in the year 2020 !  Many exciting things are planned for the upcoming months and I wanted to take a few moments to fill you in about some of the events upcoming and happening right now.   Doodle for G o o g l e Art contest going on NOW! It just so happens that this year's Doodle for Google theme is "I show kindness by..."!  What a fantastic connection with our PAX program.  How can we as PAX leaders show kindness?       For those that are not familiar with the Doodle for Google contest, each year they invite students to recreate their Google logo to incorporate a theme.  Kids can use any media to create with.  In the end, the final product (which can be photographed if it uses three-dimensional materials), needs to fit on the official google entry form and be post marked by March 13, 2020.  I have set up a bulletin board about this contest out...

Happy Fall to everyone!  All Golden Hill Eagles have been busy eagles exploring a variety of media in the art room.  Here's a photo gallery and brief explanation of what all our PAX Eagles have been learning. Kindergarten:  PHEW!  Ask your littles about all the hard work their hands and fingers had to do to create these amazing paper bag Fall inspired trees.  We studied the parts of a tree and exhausted our finger muscles while twisting and TWISTING to create these lovely work of art!!!! Here are a few pictures of our fall art lesson using materials from nature.  I introduced our Kindergartners to the artist Andrew Goldsworthy who creates art with and out in nature.   Students had the opportunity to leaf print and explore building a temporary piece of art with pieces of nature collected from the beach.   Grade One:  ROY G BI...

TOOT  TOOT #2 Last weeks class TOOTLE was awarded to Ms. Onoforo's Fourth grade class!  This group of students has been playing the PAX behavior game, focusing on using self control while painting and clean up in the art room.  It has been a challenge, but their hard work and perseverance paid off as they were on the mark this week and PAX'd it up in my classroom!  TOOT    TOOT #1 I  am excited to award my first all class TOOTLE!  I am so proud to be a part of the Golden Hill Team and implementing the PAX behavior program in my art classroom.  Our Golden Hill school is working hard to all become PAX leaders.  A TOOTLE is a shout out to an individual or class that has demonstrated self control and set good examples of how to be positive role models for others. Congratulations to Ms. Fahy's third grade classroom for earning a whole class TOOTLE! This third grade group has been off the charts the last couple of...