Sunday, November 15, 2015

Healthy Eating Cafeteria Mural

3rd grade students created this EAT BETTER, FEEL BETTER mural in the cafeteria.

Frida Kahlo's The Frame

2nd grade students learned about the life and career of Frida Kahlo for Hispanic Heritage Month. They re-created her The Frame self-portrait, each student making a separate part. 

Hispanic Heritage Month Display

Students from each grade level learned about a Hispanic Artist or a Hispanic Tradition. Kindergarten students learned about Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, 1st grade students learned about Mexico's Day of the Dead, 2nd grade students learned about Spanish artist Joan Miro, 3rd grade students learned about Spanish artist Salvador Dali, 4th grade students also learned about Mexico's Day of the Dead and 5th grade students learned about the significance of the sun in Mexican culture.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Self-Portrait Puppets

Students built these self-portrait puppets out of a soda bottle with the bottom cut off, newspaper and plaster gauze.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Cheetahs in the Wild

1st grade students drew these cheetahs and glued then upon a tissue paper "wild" background.

Foil Fish

Students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade created fish using tacky glue, cardboard, aluminum foil and sharpie markers. 



Clay Mandalas

Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 used uncooked pasta to create radial symmetry in a slab of clay. After bisque fired, students painted the mandalas with watercolor.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Bean and Button Mosaics

Fifth grade students created these Mosaic Designs with beans and buttons.






Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The Color Wheel

Fourth grade students mixed primary colors into secondary colors and then primary and secondary into tertiary colors. Students chose a shape, traced that shape onto their paper and arranged the shapes into an accurate color wheel.


Paper Mosaics

Third grade students mixed primary colors into secondary colors on paper.They used the paper by cutting it up into little pieces and creating a mosaic.

Illuminated Text

Fourth grade students created the letter of their first name and accented the letter with gold and silver.



Shape Animals

Kindergarten students used shapes to create an animal after listening to Color Zoo and Color Farm by Lois Ehlert.



Egyptian Cartouches

Students used Egyptian Hieroglyphics of the alphabet to create their name in a cartouche.

Ariana


Ashley