January 2018

​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.