I am excited for this school year and teaching in the classroom and virtually!  We will be having so much fun with art this year!  This is where you will find all of your weekly assignments while you are learning from home.  Please keep up with your work so that you do not have multiple assignments to complete at the very end of the quarter.

All assignments will be graded at the end of the quarter and are due on or before October 8th.  This gives me time to review the artwork and get the grades into the gradebook before report cards are printed.  See the recent posts on submitting work and grading.  

​DO NOT BRING ANY ARTWORKS TO THE SCHOOL AND DO NOT EMAIL ARTWORKS AS THEY ARE FINISHED.

Parents, please see this post on talking to your kids about art.  Talking to kids about their creations and process is one of my favorite parts of my job!

If you have any questions throughout the year, feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Keep art in your heart!

Madeleine Pinaire 

Week 1: Kids Tag Art
Week 2: Color Wheel
Week 3: Create a Cake
Week 4: Salt Dough Sculptures
Week 5: Foil Printing
Week 6: Florida State Parks Sheets
Week 7: Collecting Textures

All assignments are due on or before October 8th.  See this post on submitting work.  See this post on grading.

​DO NOT BRING ANY ARTWORKS TO THE SCHOOL AND DO NOT EMAIL ARTWORKS AS THEY ARE FINISHED.

Note that the dates on some of the lesson posts are from last school year and include Prek.  We are revisiting these lessons this year with grades K-5 only.  If you did the lessons last year, recreate them for this school year.  Try new ideas and have fun!  I can't wait to see all that you create!  

Columbia Homeroom students are required to submit their artwork for grading towards the end of the quarter.  The deadline for Quarter One is on or before October 8th.  The deadline for Quarter Two is December 11th.  This gives me time to review artwork and enter the grades into the gradebook.  Late work will impact grades.

You will send one email with all artworks towards the end of the quarter.  Please do not send artwork as you finish it throughout the quarter.  Do not bring artwork to the school.

To submit work, send images to my email [email protected]
The subject of the email needs to be your child's first and last name, grade (K, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5), and then Columbia Homeroom.  For example: John Smith 2 Columbia Homeroom.

In one email, attach quality images of the artworks.  Only have one artwork in each picture so that I can more clearly see the work.  Try to have good lighting and do not take the pictures at night.  Sometimes natural light outside makes artwork look its best.  The one email that you send this quarter to submit work will have multiple images attached to it.  Provide at least one picture for each assignment.  

​Send all images at once so that they stay together and I can grade everything at that time.  You will be sending only one email with artwork for the entire quarter, like a portfolio of the work.  Please do not send each artwork as it is finished.  

If your child is returning to school in person, artwork still needs to be submitted for a grade for the first part of the quarter.   Submit the artwork when students return.

​I can't wait to see what you created this quarter!  

In art, all students from K-5th receive a grade.  Pre-K and VPK students do not have a grade for art and do not need to submit work.

For my virtual learners, I am looking for:
1.  All assignments are completed by the quarterly deadline
2.  Assignments are completed by the student themselves
3.  Creativity!  Go above and beyond!
4. Growth in craftsmanship
5.  Following directions ​

E- Excellent 
      You impressed me with your work!  You exceeded requirements.  E grades are not easy to earn!
S- Satisfactory
      You followed all of the directions and met requirements.
N- Needs Improvement 
     Maybe late, maybe missing assignments, maybe work done by someone other than the student, declining effort or craftsmanship
U- Unsatisfactory
     Late, missing assignments, maybe work done by someone other than student, lacking effort or craftsmanship

Kids Tag Art is the first lesson of the school year!  This is a special project created by the Columbia County Tax Collector that helps to raise money for all public school elementary art programs in the county.  Without this amazing program, there would be no art budget at Eastside!

​All grades from K-5th will be doing Tag Art this year!  Students design a license plate tag and then it can be printed on a metal car tag, coffee mug, key chain, or Christmas ornament.

Virtual learners will need to pick up the drawing template in the front office during the first week of school.  The artwork cannot be done on any other paper and the template is only available at school in the front office. 

I recommend practicing drawing on a separate piece of paper first, because each child only gets one template.  Order forms and more information on ordering will be available later.  I will let you know as soon as I have the order forms.  Orders will be delivered to school before Winter Break.
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On the Kids Tag Art paper, fill in the blank spaces at the bottom:
School:  Eastside 
Teacher:  Columbia Homeroom
Name:  Student first and last name


Kindergarten and First Grade:  Create a Rainbow

Materials:  Pencil, markers and/ or colored pencils, and a black permanent marker
*Do not write any words on your tag art design*

1.  From the bottom left corner, draw an upside down U shape that touches the top of the paper and then goes down to the right corner.  Trace with your finger first to practice.  Parents, feel free to demo on a separate piece of paper, but please don't draw for them on their Tag Art paper.  
2.  Next, copy that shape again under the upside down U for the next color.  
3.  Do this again and again until you have six spaces to fill with color.
4. Carefully trace all of the lines with a permanent marker.  Erase any extra lines.
5.  Color the rainbow stripes in order from top to bottom.  The rainbow is the same order as the color wheel.  Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.  Which three colors are the primary colors?  Which are the secondary colors?
6.  Color the background however you want!  Make sure to get all of the white spaces, unless you have clouds, of course.  



2nd- 5th Grade: Design your own Tag!  

Materials:  Pencil, eraser, black permanent marker, colored pencil
*Do not write any words on your tag art design*

1. Your tag needs to have a main idea or subject that is BIG in the middle.  Maybe your subject is a cat, a person, a car, or a dolphin.  Be creative!  Pick something you like to draw and that you want on a tag or coffee mug!  Remember, do not draw anything from games, television shows, movies, etc.  Someone else already owns those pictures and we can't use them on this project.  The KTA and sponsor logos will go on the very bottom of the tag.  Do not put the most important part of your artwork on the bottom line of the tag.  Move it up about an inch and a half.  Draw your subject with pencil.
2. Then, you need to design a background.  Think of what is happening in your artwork.  Pretend it is a like a story and start to add the details.  Draw with pencil.  You will need to trace everything with a marker later, so do not draw tiny tiny things.  Remember, this artwork will go on a car later and no one will be able to see tiny drawings.
3.   When your entire tag is filled, then you can trace all of your lines with a permanent marker.  Do the eraser trick and see if you missed any!
4.  Color with colored pencil.  The best tags are bright and filled in with no white space.  Be sure to press down hard and color slow and small.  You need to color the very bottom where the logo will go, too.  Maybe make it something like grass, water, or a road.