Superintendent Search
Dear Blackhawk Community and Staff,

Your local school board is about to launch a school superintendent search, and I have been selected to lead the effort.

My name is Dr. Edward Albert, former educator and school superintendent now serving as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools.  I am eager to get acquainted with as many of you as I can during this process because your input will have a crucial impact on the school board’s ultimate hiring decision.

I have created three activities for school and community involvement. My first priority is visiting schools (a date will be given shortly) to talk with staff. Next, I have planned a community night on to hear more about your interests and requirements for the next superintendent.

If you are unable to attend, you still have the opportunity to contribute. I have created an online survey to collect your thoughts and opinions. The survey will be accessible on the district website until October 31. I hope many of you will take the time to weigh in. We need to hear from you.

I look forward to conducting this search and working toward the ultimate goal of identifying the best candidate for your district.
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Fourth Grade - Art

Fourth Grade Art Week of May 26

This is an artist who pants using lots of pattern and color.
 
See her video below to draw your own art work like her.
 
 

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Fourth Grade Art Week of May 18

Many artists love their cats.  One artist made 40 art works of their cat to remember their cat.  Andy Warhol famously had 25 cats that he named Sam.  Cats can be found in many art works. You can discover more about cats in art and draw your own cats by looking at the video below Cats in a Barber Shop art work.
 

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Fourth Grade Art Lesson Week of May 11

This is the artist Carole Clark.  She makes brightly colored paintings of different things.
 
Some of these things are birds, people, and dogs.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fourth Grade Art Lesson Week of May 4

 Click on the painting of the Still Life to see a Mrs. Murtha explain how to draw a still life.
 Click on the painting of a landscape and you can draw a still life for me and send the picture to me.  It's a lot of fun!
 
 
 
Paul Cezanne is called the Father of Modern Art.  He made a bridge between the Impressionists like Claude Monet and the abstract artists like Pablo Picasso.  Paul Cezanne is called a Post Impressionist artist.  He was born in France.  His father was a wealthy banker.  He didn't want him to be an artist.  He wanted him to be a lawyer.  But eventually he supported his son and helped him by giving him money.  Paul Cezanne drew and painted by using simple shapes.  Does this sound familiar?  I have told you many times to start with simple shapes if you are having a hard time drawing something.  Paul Cezanne was rarely happy with with his work.  Many times he left work unfinished or destroyed.  He was always learning and changing what he made.
 
 
                                          

Fourth Grade Art Lesson Week of April 27

Your hands are with you everywhere you go.  You see them everyday.  But.... do you ever really look at them?  Our hands are something that artists study like a scientist.  The do many drawings of them in many different ways to study how they move, look and feel. The artist Durer drew these hands and many others.  They look as if they are moving even though we know they really aren't.
 
These are probably the one of most famous pairs of hands.  You could see them in the center of the Sistine Chapel.  They were made by the artist Michelangelo.  
 
 
To learn more about hands in art work and to make your own drawing of a hand click on the video below the drawing of a hand.
 
 
Fourth Grade Art Lesson Week of April 27 Video

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Fourth Grade Art Lesson Week of April 20

This week we are going to learn about Bridget Riley and her Op Art.  Op Art creates an optical illusion or makes your brain see something that really isn't there.  Then you will see how to make a quick optical illusion of your own using pencil and paper.  Click on the word "Op Art" below to see the video.  You can always send me a photo of your art work at [email protected] .  I would love to see them!
 

Fourth Grade Lesson #3

 Many say that the eye is the window to the soul, meaning that you can understand a person 's emotions by looking into their eyes.  There are many different artists with many different styles that have held this view.  We are going to look at two of these. 
 
 
 
 Margaret Keane is an artist who is famous for her paintings of people with large eyes.  She is called "the mother of big - eyed art".  Her paintings created a sensation in the art world.  She is also famous because of the fact that her ex husband tried to say that the paintings that she made were his.  She went along with this for a time because she believed that a woman would not be able to sell paintings as well as a man.  During this time she would paint day and night sometimes for sixteen hours a day.   Margaret Keane finally ended up taking him to court where the judge told each of them to make a painting.  He refused to due to a sore shoulder and she made a painting in 53 minutes.  Margaret Keane says that the eyes in her paintings show the inner feelings or emotions of the person she painted. Click on the words "MARGARET KEANE" to hear about Margaret Keane from the artist herself.  Click on the words "BIG-EYED" to see some of her paintings.
 
 
 
Click the word EYE to see Mrs. Murtha demonstarting how to draw an eye.
 
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Another type of art that is famous for the way that eyes are draw is Anime art.  In Anime younger characters are drawn with larger eyes.  Characters that are older or are not so nice are drawn with smaller eyes. 
 
 
The eyes are telling us about personality of the character.   Osamu Tezuka is called the "father of manga".  He created the character of Astro Boy in 1952.  This character was inspired by Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop.  The large eyes that he made on Astro Boy continued with the other characters of Anime. 
 
You can use any of the supplies at home to make an art work of an eye.  Click on the word "EYE" below to see a video of Mrs. Murtha drawing an eye.  Then send me a photo or scanned image of your drawing or you and your drawing.  I would love to see it. My email address is [email protected]
 
 

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Fourth Grade Lesson: Lesson #2

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Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, land artist and photographer. At your age he worked on a farm when he wasn’t at school. While working on the farm he developed an interest in nature and being outdoors. He views his art work as being a collaboration with nature. He wants to discover what nature can do. Any Goldsworthy uses the natural materials that are available to him such as stones, sticks, leaves, snow, and ice. Watch this short slide show that show us Andy Goldsworthy’s art.

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Answers these 2 questions about Andy Goldsworthy and his art.

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My daughter Adaline helped me by making this art work outside of our house. She used materials she found in
nature from our backyard. If you are able to make your own art work using materials from your backyard and send
 
me a picture to my email at [email protected] with Nature as the subject.

Fourth Grade Lesson #1

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Design and engineering work closely together.  You can't make a product without thinking about wether someone will want to buy it and use it.  Watch the video below by clicking on the word "Engineering".  This is a artrageous with Nate video about the art involved in engineering.
 
 
Tinkercad is a design program based CAD drawing.  Click on the word "Tinkercad" below to use the Tinkercad program to draw.  You do not need to join a class just choose start tinkering.   Tinkercad does use flash so if it doesn't work for you explore the option "Pixil"
 
 
 
There also optional art activities on my main webpage. 
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