Announcing our winner from One of a Kind Gifts!

Kindergartner Breanna Huttenlocher was the lucky recipient of the art gift set from One of A Kind gifts!  Thank you to all the families that came out to vote!  Breanna couldn't wait to get home to, "make some art stuff" with her new supplies including a beautiful table-top easel!

Thank you again to One of a Kind Handcrafted Gifts for this opportunity to showcase Pecatonica Elementary students' artwork!

Kindergarten Loves Silly Sludge!

This week we are using up our almost empty glue bottles to make silly sludge!

The link for the recipe can be found here.  It starts out watery, but the more the kids work it, the
better it gets!

Miss Hoffman's class saw the silly sludge and even convinced me to make it with their class!


Only 9 more days of school!  What are you looking forward to the most this summer?

Pop Art and Wet Ones!

A few weeks ago, we received 3 cases of Wet Ones wipes from Teacherlists.com for FREE!  Third Graders used them as inspiration for our Pop Art unit and learned about Andy Warhol.  Did you know he had 25 cats all named Sam?

Check out the Animoto video I created about this project below!

Pop Art and Wet Ones

We also experimented with collage from the scrap box today!

What can you do with scraps of paper?

It's close to the end of the school year and my scrap paper boxes were over-flowing!  Since I am making the transition to TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behavior) next fall, I thought we would do some experimenting with collage!  The second graders LOVED it!

 This guy is throwing a giant spit-ball! 

It's the Mona "Leasa!"  Looks just like her!

For the last five minutes of class, we had a discussion about our creations and discoveries!  This will be a regular part of TAB teaching next year!

The "Butter" Brothers!

 

We ATE our artwork today!

Be sure to ask your kindergartners what they did in art this week!  Their answer may surprise you!

We also watched the youtube video of The Color Wheel.

Using vanilla wafers and colored frosting, we created the color wheel!  We were only given primary colors and had to mix to make secondary colors!

Yummy!

Project Tornado Visits PES!

A HUGE thank you to Eric Sorensen for coming to Pecatonica Elementary this afternoon!  Our third and fourth grade students learned about how a tornado is formed, and what to do if a tornado is spotted in our area!

Be sure to watch the 5pm and 6pm news on WREX-13 tonight and tomorrow morning!  Don't forget to do you homework Eric assigned!  One of you just might win an iPad and get to be on TV with Eric for the weather forecast!

Did you know Eric and I have been friends for a couple years now?

 

 

We haven't changed a bit, have we?!



 

Vote forYour Favorite Artwork from Pecatonica Elementary

 

SelectPecatonica Elementary students have artwork on display at One of a Kind –Handcrafted Gifts, located in the “District” betweenBarnes & Noble and Bergners for the month of May!  Make sure you stop in to vote for yourfavorite artist (and shop for some fabulous goodies)!  Voting begins May 4^ththrough May 18^th!  The artistwith the most votes will receive a wooden table-top easel, art set, drawing padand how to draw animals book, courtesy of Oneof a Kind!

 

FeaturedPecatonica Elementary students pictured: 

Back row(left to right):  Jarin Pickard, DrewDrake, Madalyn Taskey, Rose Munson

Front row(left to right):  Anthony Lorenzo,Breanna Huttenlocher, Macy Sager, Kayla Jenkins

 

 

 

Happy May, 2013!

 

Moo.