Art clubs!

On fridays the 5th grade goes to their choice of AMPt clubs, the art club has been busy working on making plaster masks.

Wonderful work guys!!!

Donations!

The art room is in need to tissues and bandaids!

If you would like to donate to the art room, please leave your donation with the front desk or have your child bring it to Ms. Seikaly in the art room!

Thank you so much!

I can not believe it is already the end of the first quarter! the time is flying by and we are in full art mode, I am excited to see the Kindergarten classes again after a 5 week brake. Some of the thing we are working on right now are-

1st grade - patterns and design

2nd grade - fall leaf designs, pumpkin patterns and art centers

3rd grade - fall leaf designs, animals in my window and patterns

4th grade - Greek temples, water color and tape designs

5th grade - Greek temples and learning about the artists Frank Stella.

I hope to be posting photos soon of the amazing work the students are doing!

collecting boxes!

The art room is looking for boxes!

food boxes, cereal boxes, shoe boxes.

aprox. 5in x 8in x 3in.

please save your boxes and send them to the art room!

Please join us for a night of fun and PANCAKES!

Please join us for ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Pancakes!

PANCAKE BREAKFAST is BACK!!

Served with SAUSAGE, ORANGE DRINK & COFFEE

BY: CHRIS CAKES

LOCATION: Ellen Thompson (front parking lot if weather permits)

Date: Thursday September 29, 2011

Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.

COST: $6.00 per person at the front desk

$7.00 per person at the door

(Children under 2 free)

This event is helping to rase money for the K-1 classes.

AMPT Times

New AMPT times for the year!

3rd grade 9:00-9:55

4th grade 10:00-10:55

2nd grade 11:00-11:55

Lunch 12:00-12:25

Kindergarten 12:30-1:25

1st grade 1:30 - 2:25

5th grade - 2:30-3:25

Please note the changes from last year.

Welcome Back!!!

Hello UPA families and friends!

My name is Danielle Seikaly and I am so excited to be starting my 4th year as your students visual art teacher. I am a highly qualified teacher receiving my BFA from the collage For Creative Studies in Detroit, my MTTC from CCS and I am now working on my masters in Art Education from Wayne State University.

This year in the art room we will be covering it all! from cutting and glueing to more advanced works of mixing colors and 3D wood sculptures all while achieving the Michigan Visual Art Standards for each grade and having fun!

Ghamba!

On Friday the 5th grade went to the Works:Detroit Gallery to see all of the amazing elephants that school from around the city made and to see our creation with the herd.

The students did a wonderful job in such a small space. Also a big THANK YOU to the 5th grade teachers and Deon Browns mother for attending.

Art Show!

The first annual night of the arts was on Wednesday and was an amazing success!

so many people showed up for the 6th annual all school art show, poetry cafe and the 3rd graders had a recorder show case!

Thank you to every one that cam out and enjoyed the night!

At the beginning of the school year, Mrs, Tigg's class learned about the artists FRank Stella, this is the movie that we made that shows what the students learned and some facts about the artists.

Not even 24 hours after i posted bout DonorsChoose.org we got our rug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all of the people that helped us get this amazing rug!

Donorschoose.org!!!

Help the Art Room Get a Rug for Reading and Learning!!

http://www.donorschoose.org/ms.seikaly

Donorschoose.org is a wonderful website and organization that helps school and teachers raise money for classroom supply's and special items that need funding.

I set up an account to get a new rug for the art room to define a space for reading and learning as a group and for sharing ideas with each other.

Please pass along the info to anyone who would be willing to help the cause and would like to help out our school.

Happy New Year!

A new year and new lessons for all!

Kindergarten - flower and animal drawing

1st grade - we are making books for the Kindergarten class about what it is like in the first garde.

2nd - 3 more weeks and you will have art again!

3rd - stamps! we are making our own stamps.

4th - birch tree collage.

5th - wire sculptures.

The Parade Company!

today was a momentous day in UPA art history, about 2 months ago the 4th and 5th grade students participated in a design contest for the Parade Company. It was a float design contest, the theme was "your Dream Neighborhood" one of our 4th grade students, Romance Keycer, won an honorable mention. out of hundreds of drawing, Romance and 4 other students got an honorable mention and one student got the grand prize, their drawing was turned into a larger than life float for the Thanksgiving Parade on Woodward Ave.

Romance, brother Romantic and Mom

He was one of 5 honorable mentions

so proud!

we were able to walk around the warehouse and see lots of the floats.

they were interviewed by WJR News Radio

lots of media were also there.

the winning float

2nd Grade overlapping circles.

ATTENTION!!!!!

the art room is looking for some donations!

White copy paper

Kleenex

Please help the art room stay healthy this year and bring in a box of Kleenex for us all to use!

also paper!

Thank you so much!

Ms. Seiklay

2nd 6 week change

It is now the start of the 2nd 6 weeks of school! that means AMPT changes, and KINDERGARTEN!!!! today Ms. Josephson's class was very good and had a lot to say about the art room, we also talked about shapes and colors and the class room procedures. The whole class did a wonderful job fallowing directions and staying in there seats! good job guys!

Ghamba is coming along!

The 5th grade classes are working hard to get Ghamba (Mrs. Tiggs class named him) ready for his debut at Marry Grover College.

They are using an art past that will dry clear so that they recycled news paper will be abele to be seen.