SOME FUN SITES FOR THOSE LONG DAYS OF VACATION!!!!

ENJOY!!!


Tour the Louvre Museum in Paris!
"http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/visite_virtuelle.jsp?bmLocale=en"


Dive into sealife at the Sydney Aquarium! http://www.sydneyaquarium.com.au/AquaTour/TOU010.asp"


Attention Animal Lovers! Go Around the World with Jeff Corbin.
http://animal.discovery.com/ads/ad_interstitial_fill2.htmldest=http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/jeffcorwin/games/around_03/around_03.html


Check out President Elect Obama's new digs with a Historical Tour of theWhite House http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/


Tour a different country with Global Trek: Virtual Travel Around the World. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/index.htm


Walk one of the seven wonders of the world! The Great Wall of China "http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html"

STAY TUNED...

...next year for some of the fabulous Egypt projects the children created...

THE SNOW IS HERE!!!!

Inspired by both the falling snow and this wonderful book,:

Children in all grades were learning how to create snowflakes.

Here are just a few of the amazing designs they created:





Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy, Healthy new year!!!

MRS. GORHAM'S CLASS

As part of an in-class project, the children were asked to design and illustrate their favorite holiday. During art class, utilizing their sketches, they translated their artwork onto heavyweight paper and then used sharpies and watercolors to create a dramatic filling effect.

NEW CONTEST FOR 4th-6th GRADERS

Here is an interesting contest somse of you might like to participate in:

http://www.space-explorers.com/internal/common/announce/2008_Patch_Contest.pdf

If you decide to submit something, let me know so I can fill out the appropriate paperwork for you.

CITYMEALS ON WHEELS

Our school has been hard at work creating season's greetings cards for the

citymeals-on-wheels organization.
Below you can see some of work:

Our school also chipped in by donating lots and lots of food for our food drive!

Thanks to the generous families of PS101 and the artistic talents of their children, many people will be happy and full!

Ms. Gaspari & Mrs. Klein's Classes

The children of Ms. Gapari & Mrs. Klein's classes had their Thanksgiving themed artwork submitted into a contest run by the 112th Police Precinct.
As you know, from a previous blog, we had a first place winner! The other gorgeous pieces of artwork submitted, will be on display at the 112th Precinct Christmas Party. I promised to post the date and exact location as soon as I knew it.

It will be on:

Wednesday, December 17th at 7:00pm

at

Russell Sage Junior High School 190

68-17 Austin Street

(across the street from the precinct)

There will be free refreshments, food, music & fun.

Even if your child is not in those classes, please feel free to join us!

It is for everyone in the neighborhood!

You never know who can show up to these events---at the ceremony for the winners last week, Anthony Weiner showed up to congratulate the winners personally!

Hope everyone can make it!

6th Grade EGYPT

We are into our 6th Grade Egypt projects.

As promised, I am posting the groups arranged with their classroom teachers and themselves, in addition to due dates.

The project is due mid December, before the holidays, and will be included as part of their art grade for this semester's report card.

Mrs. Bodenstein's Class:

Gods/Goddesses:

Kelly M.

Christina

Roxanne

Weaponry:

Brian

Yakubmier

Leon

Eugene

Economics/Clothing:

Diana

Leah

Claribel
Yasmina

Taylor

Art of War:

Max

Aaron

Nicholas

Invention:

Daniel

Yoni

Michal

Mythology:

Derek

Taro

Sebastian

Shawn

Farming/Food:

Carolyn

Savannah

Nile River:

Hatago

Godfrey

Louis

Alice
Kelly F.

Afterlife:

Nathalia

Mrs. Geier's Class:

Architecture:

Grant

Max F.

Adelqui

Sasha

Vitoria

War & Armies:

Bohdi

Josh

Harun

Waylon

David

Max H.

Mummification:

Sophia

Azi

Rafal

Adela

Alijandro

Art:

Emily

Mai

Alexa

Daisey

Adriano

Home Life:

Lydia

Anne

Luis

Gaby

Eileen

Religion:

Justin

Patrick

Charlie

Ian

Daniel

Neil

I encourage the children to either comment on here, email me, leave me a note on my desk or in my mailbox for any support they need in this project. We had a chance to speak today during class to give them artistic direction. There is also a little monetary reserve from a generous parent who has given us some money to work with. I don't want the children to feel limited with what they can do. With that being said, it isn't a million dollar reserve, but please reiterate to your child that we can definitely figure out the proper material and I will go and buy what they need.

A LITTLE BIT OF HOLIDAY THANKS

Hey All!

Hope your weekend went warm & well.

In keeping with our school year long trend of creating cards for the

Citymeals-On-Wheels organization,

I'd like you to see a website that is doing something great.

Last year we created a whole bunch of holiday well-wishing cards for wounded soldiers. Unfortunately they came back because the hospital would not accept packages of anything, for fear of something bad happening.

Needless to say, the children were pretty upset upon hearing of the return of their hard work.

This year, I found that XEROX is doing something wonderful.

You can all participate right from your own home and it takes no longer than a few minutes.

Go to this link and fill out an ECARD, which XEROX will then print and send out to our troops overseas.

I think that no matter what your position on the war is,

it would really be great to make someone who is far away from home and their family,

that much happier.

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html

Have a great Thanksgiving!!!

Eat lots, Hug lots, Take lots of pictures,

Create art

&

See ya after the holiday!

GO STINGERS!!!!

S.W.E.E.T. TIME!!

Our GO STINGERS! S.W.E.E.T. group has been working hard on their artwork for the Stingers basketball team.

They have finished their first assignment of creating posters for the pep rally today.

Here they are:

WELCOME!

Hello everyone!


Welcome to the PS101 art blog!


I'm relatively new at this, so bear with me if my blogging isn't up to par.

I'm beginning this as sort of an experiment in being able to reach out to all ages. I figure that since we are in the digital age and most of my students are online, some of the older ones are on social networks and most parents are able to go online, that this would be a really great platform for all of us to discuss together, our concerns, comments, etc...

Please feel free to comment back on anything that is on here--the more commentary and discussion we have, the better. I do have to say, though, that since undertaking the start-up of my own photo business, I can only promise to definitely read the blog every other day (even though it will probably be read at least once a day and I'm really just covering myself ;) )


I hope that this becomes a platform for us to discuss art programs, what is going on in the classroom during art and really any other arts related concerns you may have at PS101Q.



With that said, I'd LOVE to start this blog off with a supersonic piece of incredibly happy news...


CONGRATULATIONS to Jacqueline M in second grade!

She won First Place

in the 112th precinct's art contest about Thanksgiving!

Here is a picture of the winning piece of art:

Here are the others that were on display at the 112th precinct tonight. They consist of both Kindergarten and second grade artworks. All of these artworks will be on display at the Christmas Party given by the 112th precinct at Russell Sage Junior High School (in the cafeteria) on Wednesday, December 17th...
Starting time was still up in the air when I left the meeting this evening...