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Scissor Painting
Students in grade 2 have been studying the art and life of French artist, Henri Matisse. After completing portraits of Mme. Matisse in oil pastel, we jumped to a new medium, cut-paper. Cut- paper...
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Be My Valentine, Jim Dine!
Wow! Students in grade one were introduced to American abstract expressionist, Jim Dine. After looking at a selection of Dine’s works, students used oil pastel to create their own creations. Just in...
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Printmaking: Expect the Unexpected
Students at McGlynn Elementary are experimenting with various forms of printmaking in the classroom. It is messy, time consuming, and loads of fun! Here is a small sampling of collaborative work from...
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Transportation Collage
*Click photos to enlarge Miss McGlynn’s second grade class worked very hard to create cut paper collage inspired by Henri Matisse. Each second grade class worked with a different theme. Similar to...
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Let There Be Light
The McGlynn School 3rd graders are finishing up their amazing lighthouses! Horizon, coast, foreground, middle ground, background, reflection, highlight, shadow, cylinder, and texture are all key...
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Toucan Do It!
Grids can help us simplify what is complicated. In grade four, we use grids to help us focus on the lines in complicated subject matter to recreate a picture. Students broke down their papers into four...
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Lighthouses from Miss Burke, Miss Baker and Mrs. Griffin are currently on display at the Medford Public Library! Mrs. Romano’s grade 3 lighthouses will be on display in the lobby of the McGlynn...
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*UPDATE* Spring Open House * UPDATE*
To maximize viewing opportunities for families, the Spring Art Display will run in conjunction with Sounds of Summer and Grade 5 Moving on Ceremony. Student work will be on display from Monday, June...
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Welcome Back!
Summer certainly was amazing! Welcome back McGlynn School! We had beautiful weather and so much to celebrate. This summer taught us so much about the power of social media and giving through the ALS...
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The Season for Cezanne
Apple picking time is here! What better way to incorporate the colors and sights of the season than through painting! Mrs. Bello’s first grade students have been hard at work over the past few...
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McGlynn Elementary Artist Spotlight
Our very own Victoria from grade 4 created this magnificent painting at home this past week. As a class we discussed her great use of line and color. We even thought her brush strokes were reminiscent...
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Grade 1 Fall Review
Students in grade 1 have been busy for weeks! For 3 months the art room has been busier than Grand Central Station! This season I was lucky enough to see Mrs. Bello’s class twice a week. These...
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Kindergarten Review
Kindergarten in the fall is a place like no other. Many students are seeing an art room for the first time and experience the tools we use with immeasurable excitement. We have been busy exposing our...
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Wet Paint
Students in grade 1, 2, 4 and 5 are beginning to explore the color wheel. How was the color wheel invented? How does it help us? How do we make it? Grade 5 has a unique opportunity to go beyond...
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Thie(baud) Time
Here is a sneak preview of my most favorite project of the year! Each year grade 3 impresses me with the ability to create a Wayne Thiebaud inspired Gumball machine. We discuss 3-d shapes, repetition,...
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Other People’s Trash…
After recycling thousands of colorful pouch caps, an idea HIT me! I reached out to my friends and family, all of whom have young children, and asked for them to save their pouch caps. I wasn’t sure...
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Printing Makes Perfect
Kindergarten students have been working on the art of printmaking! What fun we have had in the art room! Printmaking can be done in various ways using a myriad of media. For this lesson, students...
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Spring is Popp(y)n
Mrs. Ellis’ grade 2 students have been working very hard on their version of Georgia O’Keefe’s Red Poppy. We studied organic shapes as well as the life and motivation of Georgia O’Keefe. Students...
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Bravo!
Two of our amazing students really got to work over April vacation! Atkea (K) and Tanha (3) were inspired by Earth Day and set off to work finding materials that they could repurpose for art. Upon...
View ArticleISO Bottle Caps
Mrs. Belanger’s art room is in search of clean bottle caps (plastic only). In addition to the pouch caps we have been collecting, I thought it would be amazing to have an assortment of colors and...
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