My new chair

This summer in art camp, 32 students ages K-6 painted this chair.  It's wild, colorful and the kids all love it. Great job collaborating to paint a very unique place for me to sit!

Students often choose to read after they are finished with their art. This is a favorite spot to crack open a book!

YAM students

Youth Art Month was held this March and students from all over Minnesota enter this competition. Two students from Becker Primary were chosen to represent our school. They did a fabulous job on their art and it was an honor to be chosen for the YAM art show. Way to go Chloe Suchy and Katelyn Brower!!

Project Fun!

Kindergarten

Kindergarteners have been learning about value and texture in this project of winter trees.

First, we started by painting our background in 3 different shades of blue, adding white to each level. We also painted a sheet of paper in different green values to make our trees.

The following week, we cut out tree trunks and  cut out our trees in large triangles. We glued very carefully, making sure nothing was sticking up.

The last week, we added lines and designs to our winter trees with silver and gold pastels. Glue was added in fun patterns. Then it was over to the glitter station to add some pizzaz! The final step was to "paint" snowflakes and a blanket of snow on the ground using a Q-tip. They turned out beautiful!

First Grade

First graders have been working on creating Penguins. They started out by painting a background and drawing an iceberg with chalk pastels. The following week, they created their penguins and added them onto the iceberg. The final week was their favorite-- they got to add details to make their penguin unique. Students used fabric, paper, buttons, pom poms, beads, yarn and anything else they wanted to their penguin. They turned out so cute!!

Second Grade


Second graders have been creating an artwork based on the children's book Giraffes Can't Dance.
In this artwork, students are learning about how to create texture in their sky and grass by "drawing" with their paintbrush on wet paint.

Fall Fun!

We've been hard at work making fall themed artworks. Check it out!

Second Grade
 Students learned about color mixing, drawing, painting, cutting, gluing and adding details when creating these pumpkins.

Kindergarten

Kinders learned about shapes and how to cut them in this fun art project. I love how all of the pumpkins look like they have their own personality!

First Grade

First graders are busy creating Fall Leaves to decorate the gym for their fall concert. In this artwork, they learned about warm, cool and neutral colors.

Lines, Lines, Lines!

Second Grade

Students worked on drawing lions, adding different kinds of lines , coloring them in with layers and watercolored the manes.
Terrific work!!

Kindergarten

Kindergarten started off the year learning how to use their watercolors. They painted a picture based on the book The Dot.

After watercoloring, we worked on drawing several different kinds of lines. They did great and it was so fun to see the concentrations on their faces as they worked to make the lines.

Finally, they learned about how to glue artworks on and to sign their name on the front like real artists do!

First Grade

First graders learned about lines through making exploding silhouettes. They learned that silhouettes don't have details in them, and are the outside shape only. They worked hard on drawing and tracing over their lines with sharpies. 

Finally they used chalk pastels to help the lines explode with color out of the silhouette they made.

Welcome students!

I hope you all had a great summer and are ready for school.  This was a wonderful summer for me. My family went on a vacation to Universal Studios and also visited the beaches. I also went on a mission trip to the Appalachia area in Eastern Kentucky. I helped to fix up different homes.

I also taught 2 classes of art camp which was a blast. The kids made so many neat artworks.

Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades are going to begin the year with learning about different kinds of lines and incorporating watercolors into their art.

Looking forward to a great year!