The first 2016-17 Art Club will meet December 7th from 3:30-4:30.
Please pick up your students outside the art room doors in front of the school.
Can't wait to create!!

Art to Remember Coming Home

All but 4th grade, Art to Remember Products are coming home today. Fourth grade will have theirs tomorrow.   If you have any problems with your order or something was damaged, please let me know ASAP and I will see if we can get it replaced.  Thanks again for all of the orders!
   kyle.sircy@sumnerschools.org

Art to Remember

Dear Parents,

Your child is coming home today with the “Art to Remember” fundraiser forms.  A picture of the artwork that they have worked so hard to complete is printed on the front cover. Please take a look at the many options and consider purchasing some of the merchandise.  All of the money raised will go straight to the art department to help buy the many art supplies that we use throughout the year. 

Anything you purchase will be sent back to ILE (or to you if you have the products sent straight to your home), before Christmas! These make great gifts for loved ones! Art to Remember will send the original artwork back to me after all of the orders are processed, and I will send it home with the kids. 

ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED ONLINE AND/OR SENT INTO MRS. SIRCY BY OCTOBER 26^TH!! 

Thank you for all that you do for our awesome school.

Artfully yours,

Kyle Sircy

Art To Remember Fundraiser

Attention Parents!

Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember that allows you to purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art.  Your child's  personalized artwork order form will be coming home on Wednesday!  Please be on the lookout for it!! 

Fundraiser Facts:

Over 40 keepsake products available, all featuring your child's artwork.
Many of the products are less than $15.
Safe, online ordering is available.
You can share your code with other family members and invite them to order.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Art to Remember keepsakes are perfect for gift giving occasions.

Your purchase captures a moment in time and raises funds for our school!

Welcome Back

Welcome Back!

I am excited to start off a new school year with your child and look forward to creating many new projects!

This year we have an exciting opportunity for you.  Parents love collecting their children's artwork, so we are teaming up with "Art to Remember" , a company with the mission of supporting and promoting art education.  Art to Remember transfers children's artwork onto wonderful keepsake items, such as phone covers, mugs, necklaces, and many other useful things!  This is a unique way for you to enjoy your  child's artwork and for the children to see you appreciate their accomplishments.  This is a great gift idea for friends and family members, (all orders will be back in time for Christmas) and  it supports our school!

After the artwork your child is creating right now in art, is finished, we will be sending home order forms with their artwork printed on the cover!  I am so excited to be able to do this program this year.

I plan on making art class a fun experience for your child, helping them to see where their imagination can take them!

Thanks,
Kyle Sircy

1st Grade Art Show at Ellis Middle School

Dear 1^st Grade Parents,                                                                                                       April 4, 2016

 

At the very beginning of school this year in August, all of my 1^st Grade Art classes drew ROBOTS!  The robots were supposed to “do” something for them.  We talked about verbs and how they show action.  The robots were drawn with pencil and colored in with oil pastel.  The results were amazing. 

And then…

I sent the robots to Ms. Stephanie Preston, the art teacher at Ellis Middle School.  Her students then turned the first grader’s robots into 3 dimensional works of art!

The kids are so excited to see what the middle schoolers did with their creations.  So please join me at the…

Indian Lake Elementary / Ellis Middle School

                 Collaborative Art Show

Monday April 11^th, 2016

From 4-5 p.m.

in the

Ellis Middle School Library

                         100 Indian Lake Rd.

Hendersonville, TN 37075

 

Come and take pictures and possibly meet the middle schooler who chose your robot. All artwork will be returned to Indian Lake later that week and given back to the student in their art class.  Elementary students will NOT be taking home the art work created by the middle schoolers. This is an art SHOW and not an art Sale.  J

Hope to see you there!

 

Mrs. Kyle Sircy

Art Teacher

Indian Lake Elementary

Art Club Canceled this Thursday!

Sorry but Art Club is canceled for Thursday April 9th, 2016.  I have an Art Show to attend. 

After Spring Break!!

Art Club Parents,

I had planned to end Art Club at Spring Break.  
However, we are not finished and need more time!!

Almost everyone has finished the building stage of their papier-mâché dogs., but now we need to paint them. 

We will go 3 more weeks of Thursday afternoon art club days,  making the last day April 21st. 

 If your child does not finish by then, they will need to make special arrangements with me to come in before school starts to finish their project. 

So the following dates for art club are: April 7th, 14th, and 21st from 3:30-4:30. 

Thanks for being the best on time parents for pick up that I've ever had, and for letting me hang out with your kids and make crazy fun art after school!!

Mrs. Sircy

art club

All Art Club members need to bring a newspaper and an empty bread sack to class this Thursday the 4th.

10 Things Learned in Art

10 things learned in Art

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.  When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

Thank you so much to all of the many Indian Lake Families that so generously gave of your money and gifts and  thought of me over Christmas.  I am so blessed to work at your school and for your children! Thank you!!