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Mrs. Z’s
ART ROOM NEWS

Welcome to the Art Room!

It is my greatest excitement to be teaching Art at Hunt Valley Elementary School this year. Thank you for the opportunity to work with your children.  I am planning on having a very productive school year fill with different art disciplines!

In Fairfax County, art education is a core discipline, essential to the growth and development of the creative and expressive mind of all students.  Through instruction in all four of the disciplines of artistic study -- art production, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics, students will be provided with the opportunities to:

• Recognize the role and importance of art and artists in society, culture, and history.
• Critically assess works of art from many aesthetic and cultural perspectives.
• Express their own ideas and feelings; think visually and creatively.
• Enhance their self-image. 

Each one of your children has a natural creative ability that can be nurtured. 

Students will…
... Learn about safety in the art room and how to use safe procedures when handling art materials and tools
... Learn to use a variety of artist’s materials and tools 
... Learn to think creatively and critically when talking about art, looking at art and creating art
... See how art is integrated with other curricular areas of study
... Have the opportunity to make connections among concepts, processes and content learned in art and other subject areas
... Learn about the history of art including the cultural, social and historic context of art
... Learn about and recognize great works of art
... Learn to form and express opinions about their art and the art of others, using art vocabulary.

The content we will be covering in the four disciplines of artistic study will include drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, commercial art, and architecture. 

I hope this will give you a broad idea of where we will be going.  It will be an extraordinary journey for all of us!  Thank you for your time and support, we look forward to a great year of art with your children!

            Ming Zaleski,
            Your Children’s Art Teacher

Art Room’s
Wish List

Parent volunteers are an important part of the art room – because you care about the children! If you would like to help us in art, please don’t hesitate to sign up.  You could sign up to help with your child’s class when he/she has art with the classroom teacher during the Back to School Nights or you may send a note to me at my email address MingYi.Zaleski@fcps.edu.

I will also need helps hanging your children’s artwork.  We will have displays throughout the school. 

Also, please think of the art room before you recycle!!!!

I will need the following recyclable items for art:

* Clean baby food jar.
* Clean plastic yogurt containers, cottage cheese containers, ice cream buckets, or any large plastic tubs.
* Lean cuisine or similar plastic dishes.
* Old shirts.
* Assorted objects that could be used for making a print or indentations, such as: plastic forks, corks, wooden alphabet blocks, combs, or any objects with interesting surfaces.
* Small objects that may be used for found material collages – think creatively!

Your donations are truly appreciated!!!

Thank you for donating your valuable time and energy to supporting the arts.  I look forward to working with you this year!

Art Smocks
 
This year our students will be working with a variety of art materials that will require their own art smock to protect clothing.  You do not need to buy a smock.  
Old t-shirts and dress shirts with the sleeves cut off work very well.  Please make sure your child has a smock they can wear the entire year. Your child should keep his or her smock in their backpack pocket and bring it to every art class. 

Thank you for your help in supporting the arts!