Grades 4 & 5 enjoyed a Halloween visit from "Yayoi Kusama"!! They enjoyed the book "Yayoi Kusama, From Here to Infinity" by Sarah Suzuki. They know many facts about her life and created their own giant polka dot pumpkin paintings!
Pre-K Gallery
What a great way to start October with geometric, primary color bats! The children enjoyed adding stars and a big harvest moon to the backgrounds!
Literature - "Bat Loves the Night" by Nicola Davis & Sarah Fox-Davis
What a great way to start October with geometric, primary color bats! The children enjoyed adding stars and a big harvest moon to the backgrounds!
Literature - "Bat Loves the Night" by Nicola Davis & Sarah Fox-Davis
Kindergarten Gallery Shy Ghosts
Literature: "Gustavo the Shy Ghost" by Flavia Drago
Everyone enjoyed the sweet story of Gustavo! The children practiced their drawing and cutting skills to create their own Gustavo Ghosts!
Inca Pattern Rugs - Literature: "Maria had a Little LLama" by Angela Dominguez. The children loved creating and cutting simple lines. They finished their rugs by adding texture with pieces of yarn!
Literature: "Gustavo the Shy Ghost" by Flavia Drago
Everyone enjoyed the sweet story of Gustavo! The children practiced their drawing and cutting skills to create their own Gustavo Ghosts!
Inca Pattern Rugs - Literature: "Maria had a Little LLama" by Angela Dominguez. The children loved creating and cutting simple lines. They finished their rugs by adding texture with pieces of yarn!
Grade 1 Gallery Photo Bombing Llamas
Literature - "Maria Had a Little LLama" by Angela Dominguez. The children did a great job drawing their llamas! They used overlap while drawing their mountains and clouds to add a sense of depth to their artwork.
Literature - "Maria Had a Little LLama" by Angela Dominguez. The children did a great job drawing their llamas! They used overlap while drawing their mountains and clouds to add a sense of depth to their artwork.
Grade 2 Gallery Photo Bombing Llamas
Second Graders loved drawing their llamas and creating the beautiful Andes Mountains high above the clouds!
Literature - "Up and Down the Andes" by Laurie Krebs
Second Graders loved drawing their llamas and creating the beautiful Andes Mountains high above the clouds!
Literature - "Up and Down the Andes" by Laurie Krebs
Grade 3 Gallery Woven Ponchos
Literature: "Up and Down the Andes" by Laurie Krebs
Students drew a Peruvian person and background scene. They then used a small, simple loom in the center to create a beautiful woven yarn poncho!
Literature: "Up and Down the Andes" by Laurie Krebs
Students drew a Peruvian person and background scene. They then used a small, simple loom in the center to create a beautiful woven yarn poncho!
Grade 4 Gallery Woven Ponchos
Grade 4 Gallery - The Flashlight
Now that the days are getting shorter, students enjoyed using their imaginations to draw night scenes with white pencil on black paper. Their challenge was to Illuminate only what they would see with their flashlight!
Literature: "Flashlight" by Lizi Boyd
Now that the days are getting shorter, students enjoyed using their imaginations to draw night scenes with white pencil on black paper. Their challenge was to Illuminate only what they would see with their flashlight!
Literature: "Flashlight" by Lizi Boyd
Grade 4 Gallery Smiling Alpacas
Fourth graders enjoyed this cheery lesson drawing their smiling alpacas and adding implied texture in the alpaca's fleece.
Fourth graders enjoyed this cheery lesson drawing their smiling alpacas and adding implied texture in the alpaca's fleece.
Grade 5 Gallery Watercolor Sunflowers
After observing Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" the students created their own beautiful watercolor sunflowers with an added touch of inspirational words!
Literature: "Camille and the Sunflowers" by Laurence Anholt
After observing Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" the students created their own beautiful watercolor sunflowers with an added touch of inspirational words!
Literature: "Camille and the Sunflowers" by Laurence Anholt
Grade 5 Gallery Inca Yarn Line Design
Students were inspired by the rich, vibrant weavings created by the Incas. They did a super job "drawing" with glue. They used bright colors and focused on creating patterns through repetition to contrast against their dark background paper.
Students were inspired by the rich, vibrant weavings created by the Incas. They did a super job "drawing" with glue. They used bright colors and focused on creating patterns through repetition to contrast against their dark background paper.
Grade 6 Gallery Moonlit Macaws
Sixth graders used recycled envelopes and oil chalks to create a flock of macaws against a nighttime jungle sky!
Sixth graders used recycled envelopes and oil chalks to create a flock of macaws against a nighttime jungle sky!
Grade 7 Gallery Machu Picchu
A fun lesson inspired by the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. Students imagined their own ancient civilization high on top of a plateau.
A fun lesson inspired by the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. Students imagined their own ancient civilization high on top of a plateau.
Grade 8 Gallery Yayoi Kusama Inspired Pumpkins
After observing Yayoi Kusama's dot pumpkins, the 8th graders enjoyed using oil chalks, sharpie pens, watercolors and lots of colored paper to create their dot pumpkins! They know many facts about "the princess of polka dots", 91 year old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
After observing Yayoi Kusama's dot pumpkins, the 8th graders enjoyed using oil chalks, sharpie pens, watercolors and lots of colored paper to create their dot pumpkins! They know many facts about "the princess of polka dots", 91 year old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.