We have been very busy trying to wrap up various projects before school gets out.  In Kindergarten, the students created their last self portraits using collage materials.  We will be putting our ME books together with all of our self portraits next week.  We also practiced using paintbrushes including cleaning the brush between colors to make a flower painting. First graders learned about creating texture after reading Hedgie Blasts Off! by Jan Brett.  We drew hedgehogs along with Jan Brett and then created the furry and prickly textures with a pencil.  We have also been learning about the art of sculpture by creating papier-mache' cupcakes and paper sculptures of playground climbing structures.  Second graders have been working on the concept of space by creating seascapes.  We used markers like watercolor paints in order to make the water.  The students also created tiger face symmetrical prints after reading the book Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown.  In third grade the students finished their self-portraits with Picasso-like angles. They also have done research on various wildflowers in order to make identification cards for the PTO sponsored wildflower garden being created on Discovery Day.  Have a wonderful summer and BE CREATIVE!!
 

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.