Art with Mrs. O'Neill

Last year was no doubt the hardest year teaching I’ve ever experienced. Teaching on a cart is very difficult and made me much more grateful for my beautiful classroom! 

I am blessed to have an amazing art room with lots of natural light and beautiful windows. Several friends had tagged me on a picture on facebook with a paint can window treatment, so I just had to try it! I am loving the results! I just asked our cafeteria manager to save me the large cans and our custodian drilled some holes for me to hang them. I have also included my door decoration, which I created with ideas inspired by T. Matthews blog. Thanks for the inspiration!

 I tried this GREAT Dream Catcher art Lesson I saw on: http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2016/03/dream-catchers.html Thank you to the Smart Art Class Blog for the inspiration! I had to share the results I got with my students on this project. We didn't have compasses so students used various sized circles to trace and make their circles. We traced with sharpie, colored in chosen areas with construction paper crayons and then dripped liquid watercolor over a wet paper. Some students chose to sprinkle salt for the additional effect it creates.

This year we have been working hard on a new garden project at our school. It has been a lot of fun and a lot of work, but totally worth it. We had the local newspaper come out and do an article about our project. Here is a link to the article and a little more about what we have done with our project: http://clarksvillenow.com/local/rossview-elementary-growing-carton2garden/     The carton2garden project at Rossview Elementary School   is the best of teaching STEM, using science, technology, math, and engineering lessons as well as the incorporation of health and nutrition, and sustainability practices. Our students are learning what it is to plant something from a seed, grow and take care, nurture it, and see it come to life to make a plant that they can actually harvest. This garden is something very special to our school that we want to use every year for our students to enjoy. Our garden is all STEM based and it has taught our students how importa...

Third graders just finished these gorgeous mixed media lions. We used some scrap paper to collage the mane & the kids used oil pastel to draw & color the lions face. 

1st graders just learned about matisse & we created some great goldfish collage artwork. Here's some of the completed work.

I saw this adorable idea on https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/ and asked her permission to post this after I used her idea. I painted this impressionist style hallway display and am hanging student artwork in the windows of the buildings. Thanks Cassie Stephens for the idea and letting me post about it!