When I first started teaching here at Brennan School, a grant became available in our area to incorpoarate the arts into the rest of the curricula. Funded by the JW McConnell Foundation, ArtsSmarts afforded schools and teachers to hire local artists, purchase art supplies and offer programming that otherwise might not be possible.
Modeled after this same program, Portage la Prairie School Division currently offers a similar program: SmArts. This year, here at Brennan School, we've hired Ms. Carol Barbeau to teach three blocks of art classes, one per term.
Colour Mixing
Term 1 consisted of colours and collage. In the first class students learned about mixing colours by creating either bubbles or balloons. Primary coloured circles were strategically drawn on water colour paper using water colour pencils, some of the circles over lapped to create the secondary colours.
Collage
Next, the students created a collage out of cardstock and construction paper. Tracing, cutting and colour selection were a large part of this project. As a finishing touch, students enjoyed decorating their bowl or vase with metallic stickers.
Water Colour Farm Scenes
Thirdly, the younger students created a country scene of grazing sheep complete actual wool. The older students painted a similar scene with a barn.
Second and Third Terms' projects will be posted as the terms' art projects are completed.
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