Miss Stevens' Art Classroom

DONORS CHOOSE: I am still missing many Donors Choose permission slips and need them back in as soon as possible! These permission slips allow me to use photos of students using the materials that we have received through DonorsChoose.org  Please see my earlier posts about the permission slips if you have any questions. We have 3 current projects live on Donors Choose. Please consider donating to, and/or sharing the links for our projects on your personal Facebook page! Every dollar helps to achieve our goal. CLASSROOM COLLECTIONS: Our newspaper supply is slowly dwindling, and we would appreciate any old newspapers that you have laying around. In addition to newspapers, I am looking for:  1) clean, old clear plastic liquid containers for water when students paint and use clay. 2) old Legos, and Lego people for stop motion animation 3)Paper Towel/Toilet Paper Rolls   4) Masking Tape 5) Liquid Glue 6) Leftover Yarn 7) Old (but worki

If you have not brought in your signed copy of the Donors Choose permission slip, please do so ASAP! We have our first Thank You package due the first week of February. T his is the link to download it in PDF form.

Grade 8 Art Quiz- STUDY GUIDE The midterm quiz will consist of information learned during semester 1 and 2. The test will include short answer, true false, fill in the blank and multiple choice, 20 questions total. Color Theory 1. Definitions: -Primary Colors: Colors that cannot be mixed, they create every other color on the color wheel. Ex: Red, Yellow, and Blue -Secondary Colors: Mixed from equal amounts of two primary colors. Ex: Orange, Violet, Green -Tertiary Colors: Mixed from a primary and secondary color. Hint: Their names tell you which colors it is made of, are mixed from ⅔ one color and ⅓ another. They also contain a hyphen.. Ex: Blue-Green= Blue+Green= Blue+(Blue+Yellow) -Analogous Colors: Colors that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel. -Complementary Colors: Colors that are ACROSS from each other on the color wheel. 2. How to create colors (mixing) -IE: What two colors make Violet? -How would you mix tertiary colors? ___+____+___ I

Grade 7 Art Quiz- STUDY GUIDE The midterm quiz will consist of information learned during semester 1 and 2. The test will include short answer, true false, fill in the blank and multiple choice, 20 questions total. Color Theory 1. Definitions: -Primary Colors: Colors that cannot be mixed, they create every other color on the color wheel. Ex: Red, Yellow, and Blue -Secondary Colors: Mixed from equal amounts of two primary colors. Ex: Orange, Violet, Green -Tertiary Colors: Mixed from a primary and secondary color. Hint: Their names tell you which colors it is made of, are mixed from ⅔ one color and ⅓ another. They also contain a hyphen.. Ex: Blue-Green= Blue+Green= Blue+(Blue+Yellow) -Analogous Colors: Colors that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel. -Complementary Colors: Colors that are ACROSS from each other on the color wheel. 2. How to create colors (mixing) -IE: What two colors make Violet? -How would you mix tertiary colors? ___+____+___ II

Grade 6 Art Quiz- STUDY GUIDE The midterm quiz will consist of information learned during semester 1 and 2. The test will include short answer, true false, fill in the blank and multiple choice, 20 questions total. Color Theory 1. Definitions: -Primary Colors: Colors that cannot be mixed, they create every other color on the color wheel. Ex: Red, Yellow, and Blue -Secondary Colors: Mixed from equal amounts of two primary colors. Ex: Orange, Violet, Green -Tertiary Colors: Mixed from a primary and secondary color. Hint: Their names tell you which colors it is made of, are mixed from ⅔ one color and ⅓ another. They also contain a hyphen.. Ex: Blue-Green= Blue+Green= Blue+(Blue+Yellow) -Analogous Colors: Colors that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel. -Complementary Colors: Colors that are ACROSS from each other on the color wheel. 2. How to create colors (mixing) -IE: What two colors make Violet? -How would you mix tertiary colors? ___+____+___ I

Happy New Year, I hope everyone had a restful break. Some classroom updates: Donors Choose Permission Slips : I am still missing a large amount of Donors Choose Permission Slips from students and need them turned in ASAP. I have updated and marked in Power School if I have received or am missing them. We will be receiving two more project donations this week, and our deadlines for "thank yous" is rapidly approaching. These permission slips allow me to use photographs of students on our Donors Choose page, which allows us to receive donations of much needed supplies for the art room. Additional copies will be sent home this week, and you can download a copy and read more about it in the previous post about the slips. Report Cards and Missing/Incomplete Work:  Grades will be closing for semester 2 on January 20. Any late/incomplete/missing art work will not be accepted after the 20th. I will be staying after school on Thursday January 19 for any students who need access t