Gong Xi Fa Cai
20 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
Wishing you a happy Lunar New Year.
Madeleine – Grade Four
Libby – Grade Four
John – Grade Four
Christian – Grade Four
Jakub – Grade Four
Merry Christmas
16 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
Here are a few festive artist trading cards done my grade four students.
Jade- Grade four
Radhe
Shreya
Mia
Kenny
Student Picks!
14 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
I haven’t had a chance to go through the cards in the last couple of weeks so today I had some of my grade five students pick the five that they liked best. Here they are. 
Marcus – Grade Four
Dylan – Grade Four
Artist Unknown
Sarah
Kelly McFadzen – Elementary Art Teacher
(This was a sample that I made for one of my grade four classes.)
Running A Little Behind
01 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
With holidays and Halloween, things have been a little crazy here so I am a little late getting the next batch of cards out. Here are this week’s selections.
Lili – Grade Five
Katherine – Grade Four
Kalia- Grade Five
Mason – Grade Five
Mehek- Grade Four
Guest Curator
18 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
This week we have a guest curator. Luis from grade three. Here are his selections and his reasons for picks.
Libby – Grade Four
Luis says that he picked this one because of the rainbowish colours and he thought
that using the torn paper was very creative.
Nicholas- Grade Four
Luis really liked the fish on this card. He also liked the way Nicholas used foil paper
to make the sun look like it was shinning.
Sarah – Grade Four
Luis likes they way Sarah decorated her card and liked the different textures of the paper.
Innes – Grade Four
Luis really liked the way the big star sparkles. He thought the way Innes outlined
the star really helped to make it shine.
Shreya – Grade Four
Luis picked this card because he liked the “shinny pop up glittery swirl.”
Better Late Than Never
09 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
Running a little late posting these cards.
Dante – Grade Four
Elisa – Grade One
Kate – Grade Five
Whitman – Grade Four
Alec – Grade Four
This Week’s Cards
28 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
Again this week we have a mixture of student and adult work. We get close up with Doc Emery, one of our elementary art teachers, while Ken Schunk, our Primary Deputy Principal adds a little sparkle to the exhibition. We also have an entry this week from a grade one student and once again two more grade four students.
Grade Four
Anslie
Grade Four
Ann
Primary Deputy Vice Principal
Ken Schunk
Everyone Wants to Be Creative.
21 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
This week a sent a message out to the Primary and Intermediate teachers at SAS, asking if they would like to make an Artist Trading Card for me. Honestly, I expected everyone to hit the delete button immediately. Instead I was overwhelmed with requests for blank cards. I have started to get the cards back this week and I am amazed by the creativity of my colleagues as well as my students. This week I have chosen three cards created by teachers and two by students.
The first card was created by Jane Dodge one of our grade three teachers. She is an avid quilter and has taken her skills and created an Artist Trading Card using sun dyed cotton, hand painted silk. This tiny masterpiece is hand appliqued and quilted.
Jessie Brown, one of our Intermediate Chinese teachers, as well as an accomplished artist, created a whymsical and butterfly card for our collection. One of our new music teachers Tracy Craig, created a bold musically inspired card.
The student work this week comes from two very different ends of the grade levels I teach. Kalia one of my grade five students and Anya a kindergartener who likes to drop by for a visit on her way to class in the mornings.
Hope that these works inspire you to create your own mini masterpiece.
Jane Dodge
Grade Three Teacher
Kalia
Grade 5
Jessie Brown
PS Chinese Teacher
Anya
Kindergarten
Tracy Craig
PS/IS Music Teacher
A Day Late
15 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
Posting this week’s cards really was on my To Do List yesterday, but there are so many great things going on in the art room these days that I just couldn’t get to it before the end of the day. So, better late than never, here are this week’s cards. Once again they are from my grade 4 students.
Dante – Grade Four
Christine – Grade Four
Alec – Grade Four
Ann – Grade Four
Karly – Grade Four
Grade Four Artists Love Artist Trading Cards
07 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
Today all of our Artist Trading Cards are from my grade four classes. It was hard to just pick 5 out of all the ones that were submitted. If you would like to see the originals they are on display outside my classroom door.
Dante
Grade Four
Evelyn
Grade Four
Mason
Grade Four
Marnie
Grade Four
Whitman
Grade Four
