Art - Krista Geier and Marie Yarnell

Music - Amy Hiel and Rebekah Knitt

Physical Education - Jacob Breunig and Seth Kostroski

Email: contact@saukprairieschools.org
Website: www.saukprairieschools.org
Phone: (608) 643-1900

This newsletter is to help you stay connected to what is happening in the Grand Avenue Specials. The Specials are composed of Music, Art and Physical Education, each student has each specials class twice a week. We hope that you find the information useful and please feel free to contact your student's Specials teacher with questions or concerns.

ART Spirit Week!

It’s that time of year again! Break out those colorful clothes for Art Spirit Week and save the date for the opening of the K-12 Art Show at the River Arts Center!

Friday, March 7--Rainbow or ALL the COLORS!
Sport all the colors of the rainbow! Can you wear them in rainbow order?

Tuesday, March 11--Primary Colors
Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors. Try to incorporate all of these colors in your outfit.

Wednesday, March 12--Secondary Colors
Orange, green and purple are the secondary colors. Try to incorporate all three of these colors in your outfit.

Thursday, March 13--Monochromatic Day
Choose one color and use it in your entire outfit. Make it your favorite!

Friday, March 14--PATTERNS!
Go crazy and see how many patterns you can wear! (i.e. plaid, camo, floral, etc.)

YOUTH ART MONTH ART OPENING

Thursday, March 13

Stop by the Sauk Prairie School District River Arts Center between 3:30-6:00 pm to see artwork created by YOUR CHILD and all of the other talented SP artists!

WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON:

Fifth Grade: During February, 5th grade artists created a design in a quarter of a circle that was then pieced together with other artist's work to create a larger collaborative piece. Some of the requirements were to include their name in one of the spaces and fill the remaining spaces with Zentangle patterns. They worked on showing VARIETY with their patterns as well as CONTRAST. For example, if they did a pattern with curved lines, they were asked to use a pattern with straight lines next to it. Some patterns had parts colored in with black to make them stand out. As a final touch, color was added using colored pencils. Artists were able to choose between three different color schemes and were expected to show a gradient in at least one area when coloring. These were then cut to size and assembled by class.

Fourth Grade: During February, artists have been learning about Wisconsin born painter, Georgia O’Keeffe. O’Keeffe is best known for her paintings of enlarged blossoms and New Mexico inspired landscapes and skulls. Artists designed their own artwork inspired by O’Keeffe style. They traced their line drawings with glue and colored them with chalk pastel, using an analogous color scheme.

Third Grade: Third grade artists learned about the landscape painter Ted Harrison and his use of atmospheric perspective and abstract colors. Students drew landscapes and added implied texture with crayon using complementary colors to different areas of their drawing. When adding color with watercolor paint artists created tints and tones or lights and darks by adjusting the amount of water used.

Thursday, March 13th @ 7:00 p.m.- District-Wide Choralpalooza Concert at the High School (5th Grade Chorus)

Tuesday May 6th @ 6:00 p.m.- 3rd Grade Concert at Grand Avenue

Thursday May 8th @ 7:00 p.m.- District-Wide Band Concert at the High School (5th Grade Band)

Thursday, May 15th- 4th Grade Field Trip to Overture Center for the Link Up Concert

Wednesday, May 21st- 5th Grade Chorus Field Trip to perform at Bridges Elementary

Thursday, May 22nd @ 7:00 p.m.- 5th Grade Chorus to sing at Middle School Spring Concert

Fifth Grade started the month with a wonderful concert showcasing their learning so far this year! After the concert, we spent time learning about the music of Trombone Shorty, and completed a mini-unit on Hip Hop music! We are starting off March by beginning our ukulele unit.

Fourth Grade students are busy preparing for our May field trip to the orchestra! We have learned some songs we will be singing with the orchestra, and have been diligently practicing our recorder skills. This month we have doubled the amount of notes we know how to play, bringing our total up to 6! We can now play B, A, G, low E, high C and high D.

Grand Avenue 3rd Grade students have been practicing playing songs with B, A, and G on the recorder. We also spent some time learning about Lunar New Year, and even learned a ribbon dance to celebrate!

• We finished up gymnastics by taking some time to challenge ourselves at improving different gymnastics skills. Below are some videos of students hard at work!
• We then transitioned to kicking off our Kids Heart Challenge.
• We dedicated some time to developing our Team Building Skills. This was a fun way for students to work with classmates for the good of their group.
• We will be beginning our basketball unit the 3 classes before Spring Break and pick back up with it when we return.
• Have a fun and active Spring Break!