The Bacich K-4th grade art program is off to a fabulous start. During our first art lesson of the new school year, we established routines and rules and each one of our 708 students got to decorate their very own art journals. Each grade level had the opportunity to explore a grade-level appropriate art technique. For example, Kindergarden made bubble prints, and first grade students designed their journal covers with shapes and scrambled their names in a “crayon resists watercolor” technique. Second and third grade students experimented with one-line drawings, representing their imaginary friends. Our fourth grade artists created “character critters” using felt tip pen and contour lines, incorporating designs and a positive adjective that describes the critter.
The Art Journal
Students will have the opportunity to use their Art Journals thought the school year in a combination of sketching, note taking and personal journal writing. Students reflect on and evaluate their own learning. This helps the students place reading and writing in a context that is functional and personally relevant.
TK- 4th Grade Printmaking Project:
During the last two weeks of September all Bacich students, TK-4th grade had the opportunity to participate in a printmaking workshop. Students were introduced to Johannes Gutenber's invention of the movable type printing press (around 1440), which set the stage to modern printing techniques of printing multiple copies of an image or text.
First through Fourth grade prepared printing plates by carving an image into a piece of scratch foam. Students loved the hands on activity of printmaking creating 4 copies of their images in a variety of colors and color transitions. TK and Kindergarten got their taste of printmaking by printing with objects dipped in ink such as; tubes, containers, paper rolls, and halved apples. All together we created around 2500 amazing looking prints.
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