Happy EARTH DAY, April 22nd!

Happy Earth Day!

Make Earth day EVERYDAY!

First Grade FUN

First Graders have been learning about Pablo Picasso and his Cubistic style of artwork. They created their self-portraits in the style of Picasso, using geometric shapes, frontal and profile like facial features and pattern! We had lots of fun laughing at our self-portraits when finished!

BEFORE PRINTING

AFTER PRINTING

Fifth grade students just completed creating their self portraits from clay. Students rolled out a sphere of clay to create a slab. Students added details to their self portriat using coils. Their self portrait was fired in the kiln after it dried completely. Students were able to glaze their self portraits many unique colors to reflect themselves! Be on the look out, students are taking them home this week.

Kindergartners were inspired to create African Kufi Hats after reading The Hatseller and the Monkeys, a West African folktale retold and written by Baba Wague Diakite. The book is about a hat peddler, whose colorful hats are ransacked by monkeys while taking a nap. The hat peddler has to do many things to get his hats back from the monkeys and learns an important lesson while doing so! My students loved this book, and believed that there were monkeys on our school roof waiting to get their colorful Kufi hats!

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Happy Chinese New Year! The Chinese New Year began on February 14th.

Second grade just completed their festive Chinese dragons for the New Year! Many are hanging in our front lobby of the school! Make sure to notice their wonderful use of symmetry. Gung hay fat choy, Happy Chinese New Year!

"A while ago I saw a painting of a heart, and it reminded me of a valentine that I loved as a kid." -Jim Dine, artist