​Kindergarteners have worked on their illustrating and imagination skills by drawing a line story. Their projects were inspired by the book collection Harold and the Purple Crayon.  First Graders & Ms. Dressel’s class worked on drawing heart this week in honor of Valentine’s Day. Inspired by the book The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond they learned the difference between warm and cool colors and created a heart collage with the color family of their choice.  Second Graders are learning the Rule of 3’s when drawing human forms. They practiced drawing Olympic athletes in action in their sketch books.  Third Graders have continued to work on their Alien project. They have learned the difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical to create a space themed back ground and a space alien. They are using various materials to create their aliens body and are creating the aliens face out of repurposed CD’s.
 

​All of our students are currently working on their two-week clay unit, one of the most favorite things we do in art class!  Kindergartners are experiencing clay for the first time by creating pinch pots.  Our first graders are learning how to make slabs and attach two pieces of clay together with the score and slip method.  They are making owls.  Ms. Dressel's students are creating cupcakes with two pinch pots and also learning how to attach two pieces of clay.  Second graders are continuing to learn methods of building with clay with slabs, incised and relief designs, and attaching clay pieces together.  Third graders do a culminating project that brings together everything they have learned about clay at Hilltop by creating 3D fish using two pinch pots,  It is amazing to see what they can do with the clay after the other projects they have done over the years.
 

​Kindergartners have continued to work on their cutting skills in art.  We finished our landscapes and are now making robots inspired by the book Robot Zot! by Jon Scieszka.  First graders & Ms. Dressel’s class are working on the parts of the face.  We are drawing each part in our sketchbooks and then will put the parts together to create our self-portraits.  Second graders are learning about the parts of a landscape, which are foreground, middle ground and background.  We are creating a "cityscape" based on the book If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most.  
Third graders are using their monoprints to create two projects.  They have created collages with a print and a contrasting color.  We then attached a leaf texture project where we glued leaves to cardboard and wrapped it in      aluminium foil.  The foil was rubbed with our fingers to bring out the textures and Mrs. McKay applied spray paint.  We used steel wool to rub off some of the paint.  Other prints were used to created weavings.  
 

​Kindergartners have been working hard on their cutting skills in art.  They created a giraffe and included lots of details to make them look like giraffes!  Now we are continuing to work on our scissor skills by working on landscapes, which are pictures of the outdoors.  First graders & Ms. Dressel’s class are working on a color theory project by making a picture of Chicken Little.  We read the book and painted paper in different colors.  We mixed secondary colors from primary colors.  Now we are cutting out the various parts of the chicken.  Second graders are working on a weaving project to use as a placemat at their feast later this month.  The important words for weaving are over and under.  Third graders are currently working on a texture monoprinting project.  They are using various objects to create prints using paint and Gelli-Plates.  These prints will be used with another project later this month.  We have been having a lot of fun creating these prints and seeing our results!