April 2018

Kindergarten created pencil-drawn self portraits.  The students looked very carefully at themselves in a mirror and tried to draw what they could see.  They have also started learning about texture and will add "furry lines" to a wolf          drawing.  First graders and Ms. Dressel’s class learned how to draw Snoopy after hearing a biography about Charles Schulz.  They are wrapping up a hedgehog drawing this week where they are adding texture for the hedgehog's      prickles.  Second grade classes are learning about space and the different ways of showing distance by completing a mystery drawing of a boat.  They had to make careful observations of different lines and shapes and copy them to their papers.  As the lines and shapes were put together, the boat was revealed.  The drawings are being finished by applying what was learned about showing distance.  Third graders are drawing self-portraits after learning about 2 different artists, Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso.  We are following da Vinci's ideas about proportion and then we are putting a Picasso twist on them with color.