1st Grade Art at the Oak Park Library!

Story quilts created by students in Mr. Degman's and Ms. Kekatos's classes can be seen on display in the children's section of the Main Library on Lake Street in Oak Park (through the end of January). Here are some pictures of the display and the opening we had on January 18th.

 

Irving artwork at Julian Middle School

4th and 5th grade band and orchestra students are performing in a Music Concert on January 24th at Julian Middle School. In honor of this, the art teachers decided to put up artwork by elementary students at Julian for parents and students to see when they come to the performance.

Irving's bulletin board is located right next to the door of the auditorium. Paintings by Irving 5th grade students are on display now until the first week of February.

Weaving

The second grade students are learning about weaving and making their own little blankets. We use pieces of cardboard as looms and the students were able to choose what size loom they wanted to work with, the bigger the loom, the larger the blanket will be. They all learned the over-under pattern needed to weave the weft yarn through the vertical warp threads. 

Some students chose to work together with a partner on one of the larger looms.

The loom is only needed as the base for weaving, once the weaving is complete, the students can take it off the cardboard and bring it home.

This student used mostly fabric to do his weaving and already finished!

Scavenger Hunt at Whole Foods – THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1 ONLY!

On Thursday, November 1 Whole Foods is donating 5% of sales to the Irving Schoolyard Project!

To support this effort over 30 teachers and staff from all District 97 schools volunteered to have their pictures placed in Whole Foods near their favorite food. You can find them! Go on a scavenger hunt to find them while also shopping to help the ISP! Get the full list of teachers when you come in the door, write down their favorite food when you find their picture, and enter the raffle to win a gift card from Whole Foods Market!  If time is an issue, please consider using their personal shopper (fee waived this day). All you do is place an order at least 48 hours in advance by emailing mw.rvf.marketing@wholefoods.com or calling 708.366.1045 (ask for Concierge Lauren) and then pick up your fulfilled order that day at a time specified by YOU! So head out to Whole Foods Market in River Forest on Thursday November 1st.

The Color Run

Some of you may have noticed my hair was a little greenish this week. That was some color left over from the Color Run that I ran on Sunday with Ms. Arroyo and Ms. Saliny. It was a 5K race where the runners got powdered with color throughout the course. It was a lot of fun!

Student Artwork featured at the Oak Park Housing Center Fundraiser

The Oak Park Regional Housing Center hosted their annual benefit on October 5th at Unity Temple. The organization assists families looking for apartments in the area and works towards creating lasting and meaningful diversity in our community.

To act as a visual representation of this diversity, student self portraits from Irving School were selected and displayed during the event. Students' whose portraits were chosen received a discounted invitation to the fundraiser.

What is a Self Portrait?

A portrait is a picture of a person.

A self portrait is a picture of yourself!

This is the second year the Irving students have drawn self portraits on the first day of art. 

Why are we drawing self portraits two years in a row? Because a lot has changed in a year! Not only have the students grown taller or changed their hair style, they have also become better artists.

Check out the students' drawings on ArtSonia.com: 
Self Portraits from 2011
Self Portraits from 2012