Youth Art Month

The annual Youth Art Month Show is this Thursday at the CATE Center in Frisco.  There will be amazing works of art displayed from all the elementary schools in FISD.  If you have a student who has art in the show you recieved an invitaion last Friday or today.  Anderson's viewing time is from 7-8pm on Thursday evening.  I will be there to give your student their YAM certificate.  If you are unable to attend I will give your student their certificate at School and all the art from the YAM show will be displayed during open house at Anderson. Can't wait to see all my awesome artists I am so proud of all of you!!

PTA Reflections

3rd Grade Polar Bears with Norhtern Lights

I found this awesome lesson on a fellow art teacher blog. http://marymaking.blogspot.com/2011/12/polar-bears-with-northern-lights.html

It is such a great lesson on working with chalk, learning about the Northern Lights and drawing Polar Bears.  My students really enjoyed the final project and were so proud of their art.  I can't wait to show some of these off in our annual Youth Art Month Show in February.

Happy New Year Anderson Artists and Families

Well, I can not believe it is 2012 already!!!!!  You know what they say time flies when you are having fun. 

The Frisco ISD Youth Art Month Show is fast approaching and I am looking for awesome pieces of art that are created in class at Anderson so make sure you are working hard and being creative in art.  I can only choose the 40-50 most outstanding pieces from over 700 students so my job is super hard.

The deadline to purchase a yearbook is also looming.  Please make sure you order yours during the month of January to ensure your student gets a copy.  You won't want to miss it because the yearbook staff has been hard at work creating an awesome yearbook.

Cool art created during free choice day at Anderson

My students are so creative.  During our art free choice day today Amelia created this cool 3-D house featuring Santa on the roof.  Way to think outside the box and come up with an original activity Amelia!!

One of my Fifth Grade Students, Ashley, created this beautiful collage snowman during her free choice time.  Wonderful Job!!!! It is creative , sweet, inspiring students like these that make my job so fantastic. 
Merry Christmas girls. Love Ms. Cromley

Fifth Grade Free Form Sculptures

Fifth grade is working on constructing free form sculptures with wire, wood and nylon.  This project is always a favorite with classes.  They enjoy the construction and especially enjoy getting to express themselves creatively when adding details to their finished sculptures.  Some students like to "bling" it up and others take a more Pollock approach with the splatter technique.  I love all of them and I especially love the smiles on the faces of my students as they are working.  Good job Fifth Grade.

First Grade Scarecrows

First grade students learned facts about scarecrows and used miniature scarecrows for observation drawing during class.  Each student used black oil pastel to draw their scarecrow and then colored their scarecrow with vibrant oil pastels.  First graders then added a background for their scarecrow using tempera paints. Great Job First Grade they look awesome!!!