Kindergarten EYES are done and will be hanging in the hallways shortly to watch at the Halloween costumes walk by! We are finishing up our flower paintings and adding finishing touches with lines and patterns. Meanwhile, we read the book "The Very Last Castle" to help introduce our next set of lesson on castles, kings, queens and dragons! Students began drawing their castles using what they know about lines to make shapes like squares, rectangles, circles and triangles and we even practiced the most difficult castle line!
1st Grade
Our colorful multi-sized craft sticks have been glued down into all sorts of house sizes and styles! What imaginative architects we have in 1st grade! We just finished adding details such as doors, windows and chimneys with metallic color pencils! This week we are ready to move onto our next lesson!2nd grade
Our Sky Color skies have been painted and this week we worked on painting papers for our Egyptian desert land. We used the leftover brown paint from our cave animals; added white and yellow and a bit of red to make it desert color and painted a full paper using the back of our brush to scratch in some texture. In the next few classes we will be ripping up our painted paper into sections to glue down for our land and adding pyramids and camels to finish off our Egyptian landscapes!3rd grade
We are going dot crazy! Third grade has really been impressing me this week with their focus and attention to detail as they add their MANY dots to the Yayoi Kusama inspired pumpkins we have drawn. This week we work on stems (with even more dots) and backgrounds.4th grade
Students finished their watercolor backgrounds and are now designing their own cities. This week city drawings will be transferred to a piece of styrofoam that will be used to learn the printmaking process. Foam cities will be inked and printed onto their sky section of their watercolor paper. We will fold the paper in half so the city then transferred to the water part for the reflection! Students will also be introduced to the artist James Rizzi and see how he transforms cityscapes into cities that are alive!
