Art Parents & Students,
Each week I communicate upcoming events, current units of study, classroom concerns and needs through the CTMS Art NewsFlash. Please sign-up if you are not receiving this information by selecting the email button at the bottom of this web page.
General Announcements:
Online Gallery Updated
Acrylic Self-Portraits coming soon! Check out work in our online
Cougar Art Gallery.
Artyouth
Artyouth this week. --- check the
Artyouth board outside Mrs. Kutz's class for updated information and a calendar.
Grades
We encourage parents to use the Home Access Center option of Gradespeed to check your child’s progress in not only our classes, but all their others at CTMS as well! Call the school at 464.2500 if you have questions on this monitoring option for parents.
We are reviewed
course organizers last week and went over our grades for the third six weeks. If you need extra help or studio time, please come to tutorials any morning beginning at 7:45 am.
Online Lesson Plans
We are changing the format of our campus-wide lesson plans online for our community as we work to develop a common academic language for student success. A brief synopsis of what will be done weekly is presented within my newsflash under Curriculum Focus. Check out
Advanced Art 8 Lesson Plans. You can also get an overview of the year by looking at the
Course Organizer. Plans for each course are posted online weekly.
Curriculum Focus for the week of
January 11-22, 2010
Advanced Art 8
This week we begin a relief printmaking project geared around subject themes of student artist's choice alongside a study of work by Andy Warhol. Remember there is an altered book project on
If I were a candy bar, what kind would I be and why? due on Thursday, January 14th. Be sure to check the
Altered Book page. Come ready to learn, experience and create! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Mr. Lowke
Have a GREAT week! Live art.
If you have questions or concerns please give me a call or email at:
Tim Lowke
428.2586