Mrs. Connelly – 3rd & 5th Grade Art
Posted on May 30, 2012, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
PrintWhat a creative and colorful year we’ve had! I am so proud of all our young artists. The 3rd Annual Art Fest was a tremendous success as the school hallways proudly displayed students’ artwork. Awesome paintings and art projects hung throughout the school. Thanks to all parents and families who attended this year’s Art Fest.
3rd and 5th grade students placed their art “masterpieces” in the school’s Annual Silent Auction. Both paintings were very well received.
Individual art portfolios will be going home next week so please be on the lookout for these. This summer as you clean out closets, attics, or garages and happen to come across any items you think we might be able to use in the art room, please send me an email about your findings.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful young artists with me this year. Have a great fun-filled summer.
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Mrs. Connelly – Third & Fifth Grade Art
Posted on April 12, 2012, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
Print“The smallest event can become a story if you tell it in the right way.” David Hockney, Photographer
During the 4th and final quarter of the school year, there are many art projects planned.
- Students are doing an outstanding job completing their Pop Art projects.
- Students are beginning acrylic painting on canvas for the upcoming Silent Auction.
- Students will experience clay building techniques as they create hand-built coil sculptures and clay pots.
These final art projects will join all student art “masterpieces” for the 3rd Annual Art Fest. School hallways and stairways as well as the cafeteria will proudly display students’ artwork. Throughout the year St. E’s talented artists have been working very hard to produce all the wonderful, fantastic works of art that will be presented.
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Mrs. Connelly – 3rd & 5th Grade Art
Posted on March 8, 2012, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
Print“The smallest event can become a story if you tell it in the right way.” David Hockney, Photographer
During Black History Month, students studied paintings by black artists, Molly Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden.
We have been so very busy being creative in Art class! The students have enjoyed learning about Pop Art and the history of pottery and working with clay. All student art projects incorporate what they have learned when designing, sketching and creating their own art. Students are going to be creating their own original art work based on the talent of Pop Artists such as Andy Warhol and Dominic Keyes. Some of upcoming big projects that students will be working on include making clay pinch pots, self portraits and preparing for the end-of-the-year Art Fest.
Thanks for your continued support of our Fine Arts Department and for letting me share my love of ART with your children.
Have a wonderful, fun-filled, restful Spring Break and a very Blessed Easter.
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Mrs. Connelly – 3rd & 5th Grade Art
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
Print“A sculpture is just a painting cut up and stood up somewhere”. Frank Stella
Many thanks for all the wonderful gifts, cards and well wishes during the holidays. Thank you for your thoughtfulness and generosity.
Art classes have completed a study of Impressionism. The students produced some awesome watercolor paintings in the style of Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh. Paintings are hanging in the downstairs art gallery.
For the month of January, art classes will be making posters for Catholic School’s Week. The posters will be judged in the Catholic Schools Week Art Poster Contest. The winning art will be announced during the Awards Assembly on the Friday of Catholic Schools Week. The posters will also be displayed in the school cafeteria during the Family Appreciation Spaghetti Dinner on Monday, January 30th.
Upcoming art projects: 3rd & 5th grade students will get a chance to work with clay, offering students the opportunity to be messy.
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Mrs. Connelly – Third & Fifth Grade Art
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
Print“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall
All 3rd and 5th grade students have concluded their unit on Line, Color, Shape and Form. Students have completed Fall and Thanksgiving projects. Art classes used both balance and symmetry in their designs of Day-of-the-Dead skulls, Harvest trees, Thanksgiving grids, Fall leaves and turkeys. We have done a lot of painting using oil pastels, chalk pastels and watercolors. Students also learned how colors can depict different emotions. All projects utilized the elements of art we have previously studied and did an awesome job incorporating them into all our projects.
For December, students will put art basics they’ve learned to replicate work by other artists. Classes will be learning about artists. 3rd grade will study techniques and styles of Vincent Van Gogh and Marc Chagall. 5th grade will focus on Henri Matisse.
For the month of January, classes will be looking at movement in works of art. Each class will be showing movement in their work in different ways. Later in the month, classes will be making posters for Catholic School’s Week that is later in the month. Some of the posters will be entered into the Diocesan poster contest.
As the year comes to an end, I am thankful for many things, but most of all, for the opportunity to teach your children. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Mrs. Connelly – 3rd & 5th Grade Art
Posted on September 19, 2011, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
PrintWelcome!
Artists of the month:
Wassily Kandinsky “Everything starts from a dot” and Paul Klee “A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
St. Elizabeth of HungaryCatholicSchool’s art program offers students the opportunity to understand, interpret and appreciate the visual arts and to explore their creative potential through hands-on art projects. The art program’s emphasis is on exploration and manipulation of art materials along with an exposure to a new visual language, perceptions, materials and the world of art and artists. 3rd and 5th grade students will view and discuss various works of art from different time periods and cultures.
As students learn to recognize, discuss and work with art, they will build a foundation for making judgments about its form, content, technique and purpose. Discussion, critical analysis and observation of art will provide a basis for understanding, supporting and enjoying the visual arts – now and throughout their lives.
3rd & 5th GRADE ART: classes will be learning the 7 Elements of Art. In the first quarter, art classes will review line, color, and shape. We will begin with LINE. Art would not be art without line, sometimes known as “a moving point.” It is absolutely essential as a concept to depicting objects and symbols and defining shapes. All students are learning about the many different kinds of lines to create abstract designs. Featured artists are Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee.
We will then move on to Color and a study of Henri Matisse. We will study his use of color as well as positive and negative space. Students will learn about primary and secondary color; warm, cool, and neutral colors; as well as value and intensity.
I am happy to be here with your children again this year. Thanks for your support and have a great month!
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ART – First-Eighth Grade
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
Print“Seek the strongest color effect possible.. Creativity takes courage” Henri Matisse
During the month of November, Art classes will continue learning the basic elements of art with a deep understanding of color and shapes. Primary students will make animal collages. Intermediate students will work with watercolors.
Continued study of Pre-historic and Ancient art will have primary students investigating cave animal art and catacomb wall art. Intermediate students will focus on Southwest Indian designs and Northwest Indian Art. Middle School students will continue designing Egyptian art pieces and working on an Autumn still life in their sketchbooks.
October art classes have been very busy and productive. Primary classes learned all the wonderful things about lines and what they do. 1st and 2nd grade students designed geometric abstract drawings. 3rd & 4th grade students finished line landscape paintings using chalk pastels.
5th and 6th grade students studied pre-historic art, focusing on cave dwelling paintings. Student drawings depict pre-historic events. 7th grade students designed Egyptian cartouches.
3rd grade experienced “Stories in Art” and 2nd grade enjoyed “Searching for Faces” through the Go Van Gogh Art Program. Presentations were also made to 4th grade students “Art of the Lone Star Sate” and “Me and My World” for 1st grade. Upcoming November visits will include: “Picturing American History” for 5th grade and “African and African-American Art” presented to 6th grade.
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Mrs. Porter – PreK 3
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Pamela Porter, under Pre-kindergarten.
PrintThe Littlest Saints
The newest little SAINTS have amazed me at how quickly they have all adjusted to their new school and routines. They even adjusted well in the beginning as we kept gathering more, and more friends as the days went on. Mrs. Mendy has been a true blessing to have and a wonderful help in keeping me sane! I want to share with you that I have heard over, and over again from parents about how important it has been for their own children to have experienced our preschool programs here at St. Elizabeth. MANY parents have stopped me to say they are so grateful that they had sent their own children through the pre-kindergarten programs and what a true difference it has made for their own son or daughter in their classes as they get older. I thought I’d share this with you just in case you were wondering if the sacrifices you make everyday to send your child to a Catholic school is worth it, the answer from MANY others is “YES!” and I hope to prove to you the same by the end of the school year! I wish to welcome all of you, both children and parents, and am proud to say that this class will be a great asset to the St. Elizabeth community!
Our first 6 weeks have been spent meeting new friends, getting familiar with the new school and for many, this is their first time away from mommy and daddy on a regular basis. The students are coming together as a whole group, and it is exciting to watch the little friendships forming as they learn to share and cooperate with their peers through play and activities. As a group we are learning about the basic tools used in a classroom to help make our learning fun and exciting. We are learning to use writing tools, paintbrushes, the SMART board and many classroom manipulatives to learn and explore the skills needed for pre kindergarten.
In October we will look forward to studying community helpers, become aware of fire safety month, and will use all our basic skills to create some exciting Halloween activities! The class will continue exploring the world around them and simply become aware of all the many things that God has given us. We will continue practicing our coloring skills, listening skills, and exploration of the colors, and shapes. We will begin our very basic lessons on the alphabet and learn that letters are used for writing and spelling, and numbers are used for counting. The class will discover that the letters all have a name and a sound and will begin a basic understanding that letters can be picked from the alphabet tree, rearranged and pushed together to create words for reading! (Yes, we have to get pretty basic here, folks!)
We will continue exploring through fun art, music, and physical activities that give them a love for school, coming to understand that learning is fun and exciting!
Parents, remember to watch for your weekly class newsletter for specific details of the week, and please use the information I send to reinforce these skills at home. As I mentioned at Open House, we are building a learning bridge between home and school that will lengthen over time with every grade level, so now is the time to work hard on building a solid foundation for each student.
Please keep you fingers crossed for some cooler weather so we can get outside more to broaden our exploration in nature! Thanks to each of you for sharing your most prized possession with me, I am blessed to have each of you in my life!
Happy Fall, Everyone!
Mrs. Porter
Art
Pre- Kinder and Kindergarten students in Mrs. Powell’s Art class talked about the different kinds of lines and the names that go along with them. They talked about zig zag, wavy, and straight lines. Mrs. Powell gave them a type of line and a direction and the students had to draw that line, and then switch to a new color to get ready for the next line. We will continue with using the concepts of lines for the first quarter. This will include shapes, pictures, nature-anywhere we find lines. Mrs. Powell has enjoyed your children and is excited about the many projects the Pre-Kinder and Kindergarten Artists will create!
Library
In Library with Mrs. Connelly, the students are learning the appropriate way to handle and use books with care. They are also enjoying the many books of the library and we will soon be making our very own library cards to be used back in our own classroom.
Computer
In computer with Mrs. Step, the students have been introduced to some alphabet games using the SMART board and each visit, they are using a computer with headphones to play and practice the game individually.
Spanish
In Mrs. B’s Spanish class the students are enjoying the songs as they learn to count in Espanol and dancing to the Chicken Dance! They are also working on their colors in Espanol just like we are in English!
Our Littlest Saints are growing up quickly!
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Art – First – Eighth Grade
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Monica Connelly, under Art.
Print“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
~Georgia O’Keefe (artist of the month)
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic School’s art program offers students the opportunity to understand, interpret and appreciate the visual arts and to explore their creative potential through hands-on art projects. The art program’s emphasis is on exploration and manipulation of art materials along with an exposure to a new visual language, perceptions, materials and the world of art and artists. This year students will view and discuss various works of art from different time periods and cultures.
As students learn to recognize, discuss and work with art, they build a foundation for making judgments about its form, content, technique and purpose. Discussion, critical analysis and observation of art provide a basis for understanding, supporting and enjoying the visual arts – now and throughout their lives.
First-Seventh ART: classes will be learning all the Elements of Art this year and we will begin with LINE. Art would not be art without line, sometimes known as “a moving point.” It is absolutely essential as a concept to depicting objects and symbols and defining shapes. All students are learning about the many different kinds of lines to create abstract designs. Featured artists are Joan Miro and Wassily Kandinsky.
Next we will move on to Color and a study of Henri Matisse. We will study his use of color as well as positive and negative space.
The Dallas Museum of Art is once again bringing the Go van Gogh program to our school for students in 1st through 6th grade. Programs will begin September 28 with 2nd grade exploring “Searching for Faces”, followed by 3rd grade students learning about “Stories in Art”. “African and African-American Art” will be presented October 13th to 6th graders.
I am excited about the opportunity to get to know all the students through art, and I’m looking forward to a happy and productive school year. Thank you all for your support in creating a successful art program at St. Elizabeth.
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Art
Posted on September 24, 2009, by Saints Author, under Art.
PrintIt had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci (artist of the month)
Welcome to St. Elizabeth’s Art Program. We are looking forward to another successful year of exciting children’s art created by your talented students and engaging classes taught by Rosa Barrientos (PK and Kinder), Monica Connelly (3rd and 4th), and Anne Shelton (1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th).
Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten
We are busy in ART CLASS – We have learned all the wonderful things about lines and what they do. Lines can be straight, curvy or zig-zag and lines define shapes. I hope you have enjoyed looking at our lines project with water colors. We will be focusing on shapes and a city collage for the remainder of the quarter. We are having fun!
3rd and 4th grade students are off to a fantastic start. The students started by designing their own personal portfolios to house all their wonderful art projects, and they look awesome! Students started reviewing the basic elements of art – line, shape, form. Focus for September is ancient coins Students have designed from research and created ancient coins, using modeling clay and learned techniques. We are off to a great start in Art and we’re really looking forward to future projects.
The 1st and 2nd graders will be introduced to the technique of creating Molas.
The 5th and 6th graders are learning the art of making Tessellations.
The 7th and 8th graders are learning the art of stained glass and will be creating their own stained glass creation.
We are excited about the opportunity to get to know you, and we’re looking forward to a happy and productive school year. Again, we sincerely thank all of you for your help and support in creating a successful art program at St. Elizabeth.
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