K-4 Art!

Hello art loving families!

After the birth of her son, Maximillian Danger, on January 16th, Ms. Beverage has been on maternity leave, placing me as the long-term subsitute K-4 art teacher. I am so excited to be working with more students in the FCCS community, as I am already the 5-8 art teacher. For those of you who do not know me yet, I have been teaching at FCCS since 2015 after I graduated from Hood College with a degree in Art & Archaeology with a concentration in Art Education PreK-12. I have always loved all kinds of art - when people ask me what my "specialty" is, I generally have a hard time just choosing one medium because I love just about every 2-D media, but I do really enjoy drawing in charcoal and painting with oil. After a few really great internships with FCPS teachers at Governor Thomas Johnson Middle, Walkersville High, Centerville Elementary, and Windsor Knolls Middle School, I had a difficult time deciding which age of children I wanted to teach, which is why FCCS is perfect because it allows me to work with both elementary and middle school students every day.

Currently, each grade is in the middle of a project. Kindergarten is learning about line types in a project titled Love Lines, where they are combining learning how to draw hearts and different lines. First grade is finishing up their unit on Ancient Egypt (my personal favorite ancient culture) by working in teams to create a drawing of a life-size sarcophagus. Second grade is working diligently to use the grid technique to recreate a drawing of a Viking ship, and thidr grade is also using the grid technique to recreate a version of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Fourth grade is almost complete with their paintings of Van Gogh's Starry Night, where they are using his Post-Impressionistic painting technique to show movement within the artwork.

I look forward to teaching your children for the next several weeks! If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to send me an email.

Thank you,

Ms. Strasser