1. First you construct a figure from stuff you found at home. Masking tape is your friend.
2. Then you tear up newspaper and use wallpaper paste (a.k.a. whale snot) to stick it all over the outside of your project. It gets on your clothes.
3. Let it dry for a few days and its ready to cover in colorful tissue paper. Some of those results will be published SOON.
McGuffey Alumni Josh Haag Stopped by to say hello and to share videos of the industrial automated robotics he’s been working on. It fun to know that our kids can go from drawing robots to designing ways to use them in the big world. Josh and his brothers, Nathan and David were students at McGuffey in the mid 1980s.
While the weather felt more like summer than spring, we broke out the tie dye. Each child in school had a chance to dye their own shirt, and the result was a spectacular array of colors and designs.
Special thanks to Ingrid Schreiber for coordinating this activity!
What a wonderful day we had on March 14th to celebrate Pi Day. Students, teachers, and schools around the world celebrate the number pi (3.14…….), the ratio of the circumference to the diameter for any circle. It is also, ironically, the birthday of Albert Einstein.
We began our celebration at McGuffey by hearing the story of Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi. Then we had some partner activities. The Pre-Primary and 3/4 found out that the circumference is 3 times and a “little more” the diameter. 1/2 and 5/6 made Japanese tato envelopes and sent Pi Day messages to friends and family. Then we all went to the basketball court and formed the “Great Circle of Pi” and sang Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein. Art students unveiled a giant mural of Einsteins.
Students also had the chance to “dress up” for the day with tattoos and t-shirts.
Of course, at the end of the celebration, we all got to eat some great chocolate pies and cheese cake.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Audubon Art Show! We had many who won awards, but everyone who participated helped to create a spectacular flock of birds.
The Audubon Art Show Exhibit and Awards Ceremony will be at Alumni Hall, Miami University on Saturday, March 3, 2012, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm. Alumni Hall is located near Hall Auditorium and King Library off Campus Avenue. I hope that you and your student(s) will be able to attend. ALL the K-6 students who were entered will get a ribbon, a nice prize and a certificate. To see the list of all contestants and awards go to Art Contest Awards 2012.
The Awards Ceremony will begin at 2:00 pm followed by refreshments. Live Raptors (birds of prey) will be on hand at 3:00 pm. Student art entry pick-up begins at 4:00 pm. A McGuffey staff member will pick up all unclaimed art works.
Students who would like to help as hosts for the event should report to Janet Zieglar when they arrive.
A flock of many bird drawings will travel this weekend to be entered in Audubon Miami Valley’s (AMV) first Winter Art Show for area K-12 students. Though ribbons and prizes are going to be awarded to many participants, we concentrated on the joy encountered while drawing midwestern and endangered bird species. Learning about John James Audubon and Charley Harper helped spark and inspire the living artist inside our students.
The contest winners will be posted on the AMV website on February 25, 2012. Then, the award winning artwork from this competition will be part of a public art exhibit in the atrium, Alumni Hall, Miami University, Oxford campus. The exhibit will open at 12:00pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012 and end at 4:00pm. The exhibit is free and open to the public. The works of all student entered by all of the schools will be on exhibit.
The Saturday Art Program is staffed by faculty and students (both undergraduate and graduate) from the Art Education area. This very successful and popular program serves the greater Oxford community and is open to anyone from ages 5 through adult. Each student will experience a range of creative projects in a variety of mediums. Classes are designed to challenge students at their own level and new lessons are presented each week. Previous experience is not required!
McGuffey Students will be using their skills to draw, paint and cartoon midwestern and endangered species of birds. The students will also learn more about the lives of John James Audubon, Roger Tory Peterson and, still living artist, David Sibley.
The Project coincides with Audubon Miami Valley’s Art Contest for K–12 area students. In February several examples of our students’ work will be chosen for the contest and exhibited in the atrium at Alumni Hall, Miami University, Oxford campus on Saturday, March 3, 2012 and 12–4:00 pm.
All students will have a chance to choose what kind of birds they want to draw; select a media and catagory; and learn how to prepare a artwork for exhibit. We will have our own exhibit in the art room beginning next week until February 15.
Working with the 3/4/5/6 groups in doing M. C. Escher inspired tessellations has been mindblowing fun. The students started with two equilateral triangles and made drawings on one triangle that matched the sides of the other. Then, after making multiple copies of the drawings, we cut them out and tiled them together on a large sheet of heavy paper. It’s hard to see here, but when you stand back from the finished projects you can almost see math and art spin together in a most appealing way. Come down to the art room before winter break and be quite amazed.
Escher was inspired by the beautiful Moorish tiles and designs of medieval Spain. His works are one of the most commonly displayed art posters in the Math Academia. He makes even seemingly impossible of objects look so real! -Liz Woedl
