Kindergartners and Ms. Natoli's students ave been creating LOVE art after looking at Robert Indiana's famous LOVE sculpture. We first learned how to paint with watercolor paints and brushes, creating color designs on four squares. We then glued these as straight as we could onto a larger paper and cut out the letters L, V, and E to glue on top of the painted squares. To finish we learned how to draw and cut out hearts and then used a heart to create the O in love. First graders continued an emphasis on warm and cool colors by creating a heart project. We learned about an artist named Jim Dine and the heart art he created. We practiced drawing hearts and then chose to make all warm or all cool hearts with marker on a piece of paper. A little magic occurred when Mrs. McKay ran our papers under the faucet. Some of the marker spread around the page creating some cool effects. These papers were cut into large hearts and we created background with paint sticks in the opposite colors. Warm hearts have cool backgrounds and cool hearts have warm backgrounds. The students did a fantastic job. Second grade and Ms. Wolf's students created landscapes after learning the parts of a landscape. There are five parts - foreground, middle ground, background, sky, and horizon line. Ask your second grader if he or she can point out which is which in a landscape photo. We drew lines, then traced them with glue to create a simple landscape. When the glue was dry, the students used construction paper crayons to color the spaces in between the glue lines, starting with the dark at the bottom and getting lighter as they get closer to the horizon line. Sunsets or sunrises were created to finish the skies. Third graders finished seascapes with boats, showing space by making the boats smaller as they get closer to the horizon line.
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Everyone has been participating in our clay unit over these past two weeks. In Kindergarten, the students heard the story The Pot That Juan Built which goes through the steps that potter Juan Quezada goes through to create his pottery. Mrs. McKay demonstrated how to make a pinch pot, and then we practiced making pinch pots with play dough. The next week we created our pinch pots out of clay. Boy was that clay cold and wet! In Ms. Natoli's class we created clay donuts after looking at American artist Wayne Thiebaud's work. We also illustrated the concept of size by making snowmen out of clay with small, medium and large balls of clay. In First Grade, we learned how to create a clay owl using a slab of clay rolled out with a rolling pin. We learned how to attach two pieces of clay together by using the score and slip method. Everyone had to think about the details that they had drawn in their sketchbooks while creating the owls. Ms. Wolf's class used the thumb method to create 3-D clay owls. The students squeezed the clay around their thumbs to create the owl's head and body. Second graders created clay sea turtles. The students practiced creating coils of clay and drawing symmetrical shell ideas in their sketchbooks. We looked at pictures to see what a sea turtle's legs and body look like. Third graders brought all of the skills learned from kindergarten, first grade, and second grade together to create clay fish using two pinch pots, slabs, coils, score & slip, and other methods. It is amazing to see what the students can accomplish with clay over their 4 years at Hilltop. The students make me proud!!
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