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Thank you for generously funding this project of getting Spanish and English books in the art room associated to 1 fun first grade project! When the vehicles zip and dash around in the story, now students can turn the pages themselves.
Your donation will be truly appreciated by all the first graders at Springwoods Elementary School!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Williams
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and one other donor.
Thank you for your generous donations to the art room at Springwoods elementary. Every time a student enters the art room. They get to spread out and create and take things digitally because of people as kind as you were excited to get our new table and light box and will definitely share some great pics of what we come up with when we work.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Williams
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and one other donor.
Our little Eagle Artists have been learning about self-portraits and facial proportions using the self-portrait mirrors that you funded. Older students will join them shortly as that will be an end of the year project for them. Next year those facial proportions will become a sketchbook activity and the mirrors will benefit us for years to come, helping students see themselves as special and unique and improving their observational skills and hand-eye coordination!
I substituted Crayola slick sticks when the extended oil pastel sets were not available. Bringing the smoothness of an oil pastel with a marker like applicator achieved the effect of making everyone feel special by getting them to see an unusual supply. We ended up using those more on snowmen in the wind pictures than on self-portraits...but I added some crayola colors of the world markers in for them to work with for the portraits.
Thanks a bunch for your support of our growing art program!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Williams
This classroom project was brought to life by an Anonymous Classroom Supporter and 7 other donors.
My students will be creating artwork digitally this year for the first time. A color printer in the art room would allow them to take their creations home immediately when this occurs.
When students take their digital artwork home to their parents, they get to share their beautiful artwork and explain the technical steps they took to make it, supporting both their artistic and technical education.
Without the color printer available on site, the students get to go through the magic of creating the digital artwork, but the experience isn't reinforced with shared reflection with their parents. The color printer will also be used to print student artwork for bulletin boards around the school and for the county-wide art show in the spring.
A future goal is to establish an after-school digital art club where students would get more complicated digital art projects and we would look for an audience beyond the home, both virtually and in the real world where print-outs would be necessary.
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My students will be creating artwork digitally this year for the first time. A color printer in the art room would allow them to take their creations home immediately when this occurs.
When students take their digital artwork home to their parents, they get to share their beautiful artwork and explain the technical steps they took to make it, supporting both their artistic and technical education.
Without the color printer available on site, the students get to go through the magic of creating the digital artwork, but the experience isn't reinforced with shared reflection with their parents. The color printer will also be used to print student artwork for bulletin boards around the school and for the county-wide art show in the spring.
A future goal is to establish an after-school digital art club where students would get more complicated digital art projects and we would look for an audience beyond the home, both virtually and in the real world where print-outs would be necessary.