ArtTeacher,
 Jan Sedalik 
James B. Edwards Elementary
School

 
First Grade

 
through


Fifth Grade

               
                 
         These third graders are showing off their work.
 

Art class is offered once a week for forty minutes to the first through the fifth grades. 

Students engage in many different activities that enhance their creativity and increase their  creative thinking and problem solving abilities.

Art class develops self esteem and helps students gain a more positive self concept.
 
 

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Second Grader's Drawing

Art class enables students to acquire aesthetic judgment and builds an understanding of diversity and the multi-cultural dimensions of our world. 


Art encourages high achievement.

Activities include  drawing,  painting,   printmaking,

sculpting with clay,  paper mache,  weaving,

and many different crafts.


         

                     

Third Grader weaving with yarn.







   
           

 
             Fourth Graders with their etchings.

 
                       

Art Activities

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Fifth Graders are hard at work
painting the mural they
designed  to improve our school's appearance.

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Welcome to the Art Room

 
The classroom is located in the new Special Area Pod.
and is adjacent to the cafeteria .


   

 
March is Youth Art Month

 
JBE  Virtual Art Museum  
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National Gallery of Art for Kids Activities click here

 
Lesson Plans  for each grade level  are related to the Standards for Art .

Students engage in many different "hands on " activities.    
 Every grade level is challenged with activities
appropriate for their age.




 
Art Exhibits 


 
Art is exhibited throughout the school in the hallways, office, media center, and cafeteria  all during the year. Different grades are featured each month.


 
  Units of Study


 
Projects often are related to units of study in the classroom. Tropical Rain Forest Birds are created by fourth graders when they study about rain forests in Social Studies. Third graders make Catawba Indian pottery with their study of S.C. Indians. Fifth Graders create an Iroquois Indian mask when they study Iroquois Indians. These are just a few examples.


 
Artist in Residence


      We have a different Artist visit our school each year for a week to work with one grade level each day for one hour to introduce a form of Art. We've had Visual Artists, Musicans, Creative Writers, etc.
 
The students learned how people long ago made rugs, cloth, bedspreads, etc. right in their own homes since there were no factories. They created a wall hanging to display in the media center with objects they brought in to weave on the 200 year old loom.                       
Artist in Residence, Emily Hyatt, a fiber artist, visited the second- fifth grade art classes.
Here you see Mrs. Hyatt weaving
with two students. 


 
Art Sale 

Every May during our May Day Festival we have an  Art Sale. Students make tissue flowers, hand painted pins , and hand painted cups that reflect the  theme for the year. These items are sold for $1.00 each. The cups are filled with lemonade to serve to the visitors at the festival.

(The money collected helps pay for the materials used
 and for supplies for the next year.)

 


These fifth grade students  are painting a mural
in the new 5th Grade Pod.
 
 

We have  very talented students at James B. Edwards Elementary!