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The Art is Walking Around

05/21/2013

Matt wears his creature on the chair.

I love when the art we make in class ends up walking around the building! Part of what makes having our online digital art gallery on Artsonia so fun is the gift shop where you can purchase customized items that feature your favorite artists' work. Artsonia donates 20% back to the art program for every purchase made.

--> Take a look our ARTSONIA gallery <--

I love to photograph students wearing their art. Sometimes I put the photos in the display case at the end of the school year. Please stop in the art room if you happen to be walking around wearing your art!

Alec wears his Wild Thing

Owen wears his Wild Thing

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Dryden Art News May 18th

05/18/2013

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Keeping an eye on my students

Dryden Art News, May 18, 2013
from Mrs. Tricia Fuglestad

Thank you so much for taking a moment to learn about the great things happening in our art program:
View online here.

iPad Painting Party (Dryden Raffle Winners)
In the Guinness Book of World Records? (Environmental Art)
Clay Mask Monsters (iPads, Green Screen, and Silliness)
Kindergarten Song and Wear-a-bows (Photos, recording, & video from K-Tea)
Origami Day with Mrs. Sessler (4th grade)
Digital Citizenship via Artsonia (Learning to be Kind Online)
Burning Digital Porfolios (5th grade culminating art education event)
EdBacker :: LEGO Wall for Dryden Art Program (More Legos are coming!)
Hall of Fame Raffle - Dryden Art (Congrats Filip Kdg, Connor T.1st, & Jack P. 4th)
Digital Cats in the Style of Laurel Birch (2nd grade iPad project)
Percolated Landscapes (First grade added an FX to their Landscapes)
Artist Statements for 5th grade Flying Animation (Read their stories about flying)

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Burning Digital Porfolios

05/16/2013

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This week our fifth graders had a culminating event in their elementary art education. I have been saving and storing files of art, photos and videos for each of our students since the moment they began attending Dryden School. Today we burned them all onto keepsake discs

Digital Portfolio Day from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Our portfolios are full of memories from art making, movie-making, and other related experiences. Make sure you look at your students' portfolio and sign the feedback form. This form is their ticket to a raffle for art goodies. Due May 23rd.

First day of school

Kindergarten Tea

Art Olympics 3rd grade

Painting 4th grade

This one minute Fugleflick is our commercial for Digital Portfolios. Watch this to learn a little more about why we think they are so valuable to our students.

Digital Portfolio from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Digital Citizenship via Artsonia

05/16/2013

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This week we spent some time focusing on Digital Citizenship in the art room using our online digital art gallery. Students learned to write kind and encouraging comments to fellow Dryden Artists. (See our internet safety fugleflick.)
We tried to find students who didn't have many comments on their artwork yet so they could experience the fun of participating onArtsonia.
Participation is really the key to making our Artsonia experience fun. When a student has fan club members they get an email for each newly published piece of artwork. The hope is that they will comment and encourage the young artists. These comments are then approved by the parents who then share them with the child. When every piece of this network participates, the young artists are encouraged and motivated to do their best!

We visually filled a bucket as we metaphorically filled buckets with our encouraging and kind comments online.
Every time a student wrote a comment they put a letter in the bucket to symbolize how they are filling up the spirits of the people they write to. This metaphor is based on a book called: Have you Filled a Bucket Today?
The third graders not only filled this bucket but I had to pull out a large vase, and create an over flow area! We counted out the pieces at the end of class and applauded their efforts to share kind words with others.We hope that the parents take a moment to approve and share these comments with their young artists. Below are some approved comments just posted this morning.

Don't know how to check comments? watch this video
Ready to login to your child's account? Click here.
Need help with your login or security key? tfuglestad@sd25.org

Below is our Fugleflick video about our Online Art Gallery on Artsonia. Students love it!

Our Online Art Gallery from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Origami Day with Mrs. Sessler

05/15/2013

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We were so fortunate to have Mrs. Sessler teach an origami lesson to each of the fourth grade classes. She shared about her Japanese heritage, showed us her mother's artistry, told the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, and lead all the students through the steps to make an origami paper crane. This was such a meaningful experience for all our students. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and culture, Mrs. Sessler!

Learn more about Sadako's story with this sweet child made stop motion animation.
View all of our paper cranes in our online art gallery on Artsonia.
Watch the animato video of our time with Mrs. Sessler below or at this link.
When Japan suffered from an earthquake an tsunami in 2011, Dryden Students joined Students Rebuild to show we cared with paper cranes.
Learn about this here.

The fourth graders signed a big thank you origami crane for Mrs. Sessler.

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Kindergarten Song and Wear-a-bows

05/10/2013

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Our kindergarten students had their musical today. They wore the bows that we made in art class and sang the song that I wrote about the things we learned this year.
View all their bows on Artsonia.

You can listen to the recording of their performance captured on Audioboo below.

listen to ‘Our #artsed Kindergarten Song ’ on Audioboo

Thanks to Mr. Robinson, our wonderful & techy assistant principal, we have a video recording of the song below. View the whole musical here.

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Clay Mask Monsters

05/09/2013

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Much earlier in the school year 5th graders created an additive and subtractive clay masks.
One silly day, I took out all my art room props, stuffed animal, and wings and had them pose before our green screen to become the monster body that matched their clay mask. Well, I thought we could work on putting this together on iPads during their rotation, but the animation idea took our entire time. But luckily our art room now has iPads!

Here is how we layer the pieces together:
1. Choose a background (save to photos)
2. Find your monster pose (save to photos)
3. Find your mask (save to photos)

Click image to chose a background

Click image to find your pose

Click image to find your mask

4. Open up the Brushes app.
5. Click the photo button to bring in the background layer
6. Click the photo button to bring in the pose layer, resize and reposition
7. Click the photo button to bring in the mask layer, resize and reposition
8. Save to the gallery and email it to me (subject line=your name and class)

View the finished artwork on Artsonia at this link or few a few examples below.

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In the Guinness Book of World Records?

05/08/2013

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Dryden artists that have classes on Wednesday were busy creating environmental art the day I was with the fourth grade annual field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. The completed artwork was photographed for Artsonia and organized into a binder. This was shipped to Chicago where the 105 images contributed to an attempt to break a world's record. Learn more here. See our gallery here.

This isn't the first time Dryden Artists have done something to help the environment. A few years back, a group of Fugleflick Filmmakers made this award-winning video to encourage students to be green when they clean the art room (or any space).

Let's Be Green when We Clean from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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iPad Painting Party

05/07/2013

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Dryden Raffle Winners had an after school art class on Monday where we painted our self-portraits digitally using the Brushes app. You can see I kept a close eye on everyone.