December 2019

The Kindergartners and Ms. Natoli’s students used their green collages to create a snowy landscape.  The students cut out large triangles from the collages for the trees.  A white piece of paper became the snowy ground.  All of these papers were arranged and glued with small amounts of glue to blue construction paper for the sky.   We finished by adding snow falling with white sparkly paint and cotton swabs.  First graders are currently creating octopuses using oil pastels and paint.  The students first watched a short video with 8 facts about octopuses.  Ask your student if they remember any of the facts.   We are learning about warm and cool colors and watercolor resist.  Ms. Wolf’s students and second grade are creating Native American kachina dolls.  The students first learned about kachina dolls and the concept of sculpture.  The students then created a list of things they are good at and things that they enjoy.  They are including some of these things from the list in the design of their dolls.  Construction paper, yarn, markers and a variety of other materials are being used to create the parts of the dolls.  The dolls will be attached to wood bases next week, so if you can grab some cut ends from the Christmas tree lot, that would be great! Third grade is continuing to learn about space in a landscape by looking at the work of Winslow Homer.  They are creating a collage' seascape with boats that show distance.