Bell Organic Garden Celebration

2018 Bell Organic Garden Celebration!

Bell art students created Japanese Carp Windsocks to celebrate the 1st annual Bell Organic Garden fundraiser celebration.

“Koinobori, meaning "carp streamer" in Japanese, are carp-shaped windsocks traditionally flown in Japan to celebrate a traditional calendar event which is now designated a national holiday; Children’s Day.

Children's Day takes place on May 5, landscapes across Japan are decorated with koinobori from April to early May, in honor of children for a good future and in the hope that they will grow up healthy and strong.”

Kindergarten Last of the Snowmen!

During one of our last cold snaps we finished up our lessons on mixed media in Kindergarten art. Here are a few examples or our kinder snowmen. I had received some very nice recycled wrapping paper that worked great for this project. Using the wrapping paper I let the kids use to create ksnowmen accessories. I was able to use this process to assess their shape recognition, ability to cut and understanding of spacial relations between the size of the snowmen and the size of their accessories. The kids really enjoyed this project.

LAMP Newsletter - Bell Visual Arts Fall 2013

Visual Arts In Review- By Mrs. Nohelty

Throughout the course of the school year, every class from Kindergarten to Third grade meets once a week for 45 minutes in the art classroom. Bell Students will have art for approximately 12 art classes each grading period.

The program is designed to provide an enriching Fine Art experience for every student regardless of their skill-level, talent, or aptitude. All students have the opportunity to create and participate in an individualized yet cooperative artistic environment. 

In the Bell Elementary art program we focus on creativity and expression of individual artistic accomplishment. The students, regardless of age, are encouraged to engage in the visual arts while working within the structure and expectations of the Marblehead Public School Fine Arts Curriculum, and the Massachusetts State Visual Arts Educational Frameworks. Art lessons within the Bell School program are developed with a strong emphasis age appropriate artistic skills while integrating the theories of Elements and Principals around Art and Design.  Students are graded according to their willingness to participate, age appropriate visual art skill sets and classroom behavior.

 

Kindergarten Shape Assessment

A directed drawing activity with the Kindergarteners to assess their knowledge about and their ability to render simple shapes. The assessment artwork from the beginning of the year will be saved in a portfolio. At the end of the year the portfolio will be reviewed to mark each students development and growth.

Getting ready for the Bell School Fine Art Exhbition!

 

Thanks to my daughter Lauren for spending this beautiful beach day hanging artwork

for the Bell School Fine Arts Night with her mom rather than going to the beach. We are almost ready to go. The kids work looks great. As soon as school is out I owe her a lobster roll and day at Good Harbor Beach!

 

 

 

 

 

Self Portrait End of Year Unit - Image and Identity

 

Self Portrait Unit

Year end review - image and identity

Bell Fine Arts Night - June 5th!

 

Bell School Library with Art from our Bell School Students

 

Bell School Library ready to go.

Third Grade Art in the third grade wing. Self Portraits and Georgia O'keeffe Floral Studies.

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Winter Cardinal Paintings

One of my favorite winter images is a Cardinal in the snow. Prior to leaving for winter break I decided to introduce a directed painting assignment with the Kindergarten and 1st grade art students on a cardinal in the winter woods.

Owl Moon 1st Grade Enrichment Program

Our 1st grade students had the opportunity to have an enrichment program come in last week called WingMasters. This is a program that brings birds of prey, primarily owls into elementary schools to introduce them to the kids and discuss interesting facts about the birds. This program has been around for a number of years. My daughter, who is a junior in high school still remembers WingMasters visit when she was a kindergartner many years ago.
I found a really interesting owl painting project that works with basic shape recognition in observational painting, the technique of developing an underpainting and working with various paint colors and applications to create texture.
The kids really loved this project.

Kindergarten Project - Jan Brett's "The Mitten" focus on Shape, Line and Color

We started the class by reading the story "The Mitten" about a boy who asks his grandmother to knit him white mittens. She's hesitant to make him a pair of "snow white" mittens, but finally agrees as long as he doesn't loose them. When the boy loses his white mitten in the snow a whole list of woodland animals move in to the abandoned mitten. The kindergartners love the story and Jan Brett's beautiful illustrations.  

Once the story is finished I ask the students if they could design a mitten that couldn't be "lost" in the snow. The challenge was to design their own mittens that would stand out against a white snowy background using shapes, line, and color in patterns and designs that were interesting and appealing to them. Students used mitten tracers to trace the shape of a mitten onto white card stock. They were then asked to design a mitten using basic geometric shapes and lines. They were provided with rulers to help create a geometric repeating patterns to organize their shape motif. The finished the mitten with bright colors from construction paper crayons.

This was an interesting project for the kids. The feedback from the kids was very positive. They were so excited about the book "The Mitten" and loved designing their own huge colorful mittens for display.

Kindergarten Student - The Mitten Project