What a busy and fun time it has been this winter!


The 3-4 yr. old preschoolers were looking into caring for animals, and about animals.  In collaboration with this, we created little papier mache' eggs to go with their chickens, and they made twirly hanging snakes.  They've made 'junk' prints to look at different shapes and discovering how they print.  Just recently, in collaboration with their newest unit, looking into the different ways in which people express themselves, they watched a short video of a boy using sign language to express a poem about the moon while a narrater read it, and then they made brayer paings and used stencils of the moon to create beautiful paintings.

The 4-5 preschoolers have been studying families and different families around the world, so in collaboration with this, we made family collages on house shapes to create a representation of their own family.  Then they made little people out of recycled tp tubes and pipr cleaners and feathers, and thought about how people are related.


The K/1 classes have been studying houses and where and how different people live, and so we have been thinking about houses in art.  They thought about caves and cave people and the cave drawings that were done so long ago in what were the first houses.  They saw a video that showed lots of cave drawings, and then they made their own 'cave drawings' thinking about symbols and how they can make a story with pictures.  And now, continuing with the house idea, they making colorful, whimsical drawings of neighborhoods with oil pastel and watercolor paints.

In collaboration with their classroom study of the Rainforest, the 2/3 grade classes drew and colored in their individual Rainforest animals, and added them to the beautiful murals they made. Now they are learning about and creating self-portraits in the style of the artist Amadeos Modigliani, and they're coming out great!!  I can't wait to hang them in the hallways!

The 4/5th graders have recently been working on self portraits as well and learning about facial propportions, and thinking about themselves.  In collaboration with their unit looking into heros real and imagined, the students are thinking of the hero qualities that they possess and adding those words to their drawings...

The middle schoolers have been quite busy this semester as well, and I have included a link to view a slideshow, with captions for explanations, showing what they've all been up too!
Select the following link, and then click on 'slideshow' in the upper left corner.....

click here to see the art of the Middle School Artists!