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Art Contest and Artsonia Coupon

11/25/2013

"Art is Everywhere"
Illinois Arts Education Week Poster Contest.
Learn more here
Download the form here.
Due to Mrs. Fuglestad by Monday, Dec. 2nd

3 years ago we had two honorable mentions in this poster contest. View their trip to Springfield for the award reception here.

Our Honorable Mentions from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Artsonia Coupon Code until 12/15

Any of the art uploaded to your child's portfolio can be made into a keepsake through Artsonia. You can even upload your own photos from your camera or Facebook and have it made into a mug, shirt, phone case, mouse pad, magnet, card, etc.
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Every purchase gives back 20% to the art program which will help us buy iPad for the art room. Learn more about our iPad campaign here.

My cabinets are filled with Artsonia Mugs

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Youth Art Month-Four amazing events!

3/16/2013

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View all four events in one short animoto video below orat this link.

TWO Dryden Artists have their art featured on the Youth Art Month Poster for the state of Illinois. These posters are distributed to every school building and legislator in the state to celebrate Art Education. We are so proud of our two winners! They were recognized at the school board meeting on March 14th.
See this post for more photos.

A group of 5 students worked on a Fugleflick movie over a period of 5 months that uses art as a metaphor for embracing diversity, Different is Good. This movie was debuted to a large audience as the Cultural Arts Fair and introduced by the filmmakers themselves. Congrats to Isabelle, Marion, Ciara, Ryan, and Brianna (not shown). View the movie and take the quiz here on my previous blog post.

The District's Cultural Arts Fair was held on March 7th. I was not able to attend because I was at the NAEA conference in Texas, but Mrs. Beihoffer (thank you!) volunteered to hang our art banners and photograph the Dryden Artists who stopped by. Congratulations to those with art selected for this exhibit. The beautiful work is worth celebrating! See more photos below.

Four Dryden Artists had artwork chosen for permanent display at the new St. Alexius Children's and Women's Hospital in Hoffman Estates. The organizers wanted local student art and selected Dryden pieces from last year's Artsonia Gallery. The families brought the original pieces in to be scanned and judged by a committee. The ones selected were blown enlarge and professionally displayed in the hallways and/or in the patient's rooms. How wonderful that our wish for the world project inspired by Robert Indiana's LOVE image will be spreading a message of kindness to the future patients of this hospital. Jack's art was a watercolor of fall leaves. See more images from the VIP artist's reception at the hospital on Friday, March 15th below.

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Congratulations to 3 Dryden Artists

2/22/2013

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We have some wonderful news for three of our Dryden Artists this March (Which happens to be Youth Art Month). Jack B., currently in 4th grade, had his art, "KIND" selected for permanent display at the new St. Alexius Women and Children's Hospital in Hoffman Estates. He has been invited to VIP reception along with other student artists who have also had pieces chosen to add cheer to the halls of this institution.

Ben G., currently a 4th grader, had his piece, "ART SMART" chosen for the Illinois Youth Art Month poster that will be distributed to every school and congressional leader in the state to help celebrate art education in our schools during the month of March.

Robert J., currently a 3rd grader, had his piece, "Different is Good" chosen for the Illinois Youth Art Month poster also! How amazing to have both artists chosen in one year from the hundreds that were submitted across the state of Illinois.

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Posters for Classroom Management

8/24/2012

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As I put my art room together for the start of the school year, I realized how much I depend on these three classroom management "posters". They were not bought from a storehouse of art supplies but rather designed by art teachers as solutions to behavior management issues. Thankfully these teachers have shared their ideas and helped make my art room run much smoother. I would like to share them here:

The Mona Lisa is an awesome example of how to be a good listener. I first learned this idea from Scott Russell. He also shared that he does a call and response with his students. He says "Mona" they respond with "Lisa" and pose quietly like her. This simple poster expresses my wishes for my students perfectly. Samantha Melvin has her students look at the Mona Lisa and sit like her to calm their minds before they begin art class. I used BlockPosters.com to make this poster a bit bigger than my school printer can. You can download the image here and larger poster here .

This info graphic is beautiful, artistic, and SO HELPFUL in my elementary art room. I love being able to say, "We will need to concentrate now so our voice level should not be above a 1 (spy talk)" or "Turn to your neighbor and discuss the solution. Keep your voices at a 2 (low flow)." This image came from Theresa Gillespie. She shared it out last school year and it changed the way I approach everything now. Having a concrete way to discuss my expectations with the students helps them self-monitor rather than just wait for me to tell them they are too loud. I love how it also gives me a chance to explain that noise and learning can go together if we are all on task. Download the image from her Teachers Pay Teacher's Store here & follow Theresa on Twitter @greeneyegal. Tip: if you need the poster a different size upload the image to http://www.blockposters.com/

The Scoreboard is my simple incentive plan in the art room. I write 1st-5th grade classrooms on each of the lines. Every week when students arrive in art class they get 4 points. One point for each of the classroom rules (see them on display in my room):
Listen, Be Polite, Show Respect, Clean Up
At the end of class I ask a student who was good at keeping the rules to mark the scoreboard. They work their way towards the star and gain a visual to judge how their class is doing against the rest of the school. When students reach the star I give them a smiley face eraser cap, the star of our Fugleflick movie, Be Kind to Your Erasers.
If you want to download the poster to print for your classroom go to my TPT site here.

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Eat Your Veggies!

10/6/2011

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First Graders advocate for healthy eating with their
Lima Bean Monster Posters!
See the gallery of images here.
Watch the How to tutorial below or click here.