CTMS ArtNewsFlash

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