Elementary Grade 5, January 24-28, 2011

We are taking a giant leap from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century - to a world of imagination and image making. How does our culture personify the creatures in our surroundings. We will look at examples of contemporary animation and then select an animal native to Honduras and give it form and persnality.

Elementary Grade 4 Janaury 24-28, 2011

Our Fish are Flying...They all have their fishing line attached and are ready to be painted in their exotic colors and patterns. They can't wait to get to their new home in the Library Coral Reef.

Elementary Grade 3 January 24-28, 2011

Grade three students will put the finishing touches on their stripe paintings. Then they will begin taking a closer look at Mayan artifacts - wht is an artifact? Then they will make some of their own.

Elementary Grade 2 January 24-28, 2011

Second graders will become portrait artists when they look at famous self portraits and then try an expressive portrait of their own. This is an introduction to proportion - where are the features placed - look closely in the mirror. What emotion do you want to show? How will you show it? What happens to the features when our expessions change.

Elementary Grade 5 January 18-21, 2011

How is Your Mummy?

Final touches are being put on the mummy cases and the mummies are waiting patiently to be tucked inside. The papyrus boat model has been completed and is ready to be tested in the water. The press has been opend and the papyrus paper is ready for display.

Murals will be moved to the fifth grade classroom Tuesday ready for everyone to come and see the Egyptian Museum. We hope students and parents will enjoy this very special exhibition and cross curricular collaboration. Congratulations to all of the students and to Miss Mary Carmen and Mr. Warren.

Hmm...what will we do next?

Elementary Grade 4 January 18-21, 2011

Gone Fishing!
We are still "fishing" in the art room. Some students are putting the last layer of papier-mache on their fish forms and will begin designing their colorful patterns. Soon they will all be ready to hang in the library coral reef.

Elementary Grade 3 January 18-21, 2011

Stripes, Stripes and More Stripes!
Horizontal, vertical, curving and zig-zagging we have lots of stripes. We have explored tints and this week we will add shades to the compositions and see what effect that has on our work. It is so much fun playing with color and moving paint across the paper.

Elementary Grade 2 January 18-21, 2011

Second Graders are completing their paintings inspired by Paul Klee. They are learning about tints and secondary colors. They are also getting some good practice on how to set up and clean up their painting station and putting on and taking off their art aprons.

Elementary Grade 5 January 5-14, 2011

So many things to finish and get ready for display at the Egyptian museum next week.

We will be laying gold on our mummy sarcophagues, wrapping our mummies, finishing the model papyrus boat and completing our murals. See you at the exhibit!

Elementary Grade 4 January 5-14, 2011

More and more layers of papier-mache! We are making our fish forms good and strong. This week we will add the nylon fishing line that our fish will ultimately hang from in the library coral reef.

Elementary Grade 3 January 5-14, 2011

Third graders looked at stripe paintings by several artists. Then they put on their aprons and started painting their own versions of stripe paintings. They used one color and white to make a variety of tints. Next they will experiment with shades adding very small amounts of black to change the intensity of the color.

Elementary Grade 2 January 5-14, 2011

Grade 2 students have completed their research on Paul Klee and have moved into the studio to create paintings inspired by his work. They are working with our new liquid tempera paints to get the tints and shades that characterize his work.