Collecting Tissue Boxes!!

The Art Room is still collecting empty tissue boxes of all shapes and sizes.  Drop boxes are in the office and outside the Art Room.  Please donate, and support art projects using recycled materials!!Thank you!

Decorating our Reading Bags

Students were all given Reading Bags to keep their reading supplies in.  They were very plain bags, so we decided to decorate them with student names and drawings about reading and literature!  Here are some first graders and their bags in progress...

Laurel Burch Cats by Grade 3

Third graders viewed images of Laurel Burch's artwork, and were inspired by all the lines, designs and patterns that they saw.  Here are some Grade 3 cats, inspired by Burch, and using color-changing markers...

Fauvist Landscapes by Grade 2

We read the book When Pigasso Met Mootisse by Nina Laden to introduce this lesson.  Second graders learned that Henri Matisse was a member of the Fauves, or Wild Beasts, because of the wild and unusual colors that he used.  They created these landscapes using glue outlines, and chalk pastel in the style of the Fauves.

Value Hand Drawings by Grade 4

Fourth graders learned about using value to create an illusion.  In these drawings, the idea is to have the hand look like it is coming out of the paper.  It was a difficult challenge, but I think the fourth graders did an excellent job!

Free Choice Day!

Students in grades 1-5 have the chance to earn a Free Choice Day each trimester.  There are a variety of stations set up and students are able to make choices about what they want to work on and explore that day.  Here are some photos from a third grade class...

3-D Paper Hats by Kindergarden

Kindergardeners used many different paper-folding techniques to create these amazing hats.

We are on Center School Sightings!

Follow the link below to see the newest episode of the Center School news program, Center School Sightings, (Episode 4).  Our segment is all about the new iPad drawing project that fifth graders are working on, it starts at about 1.38 minutes in.
Enjoy!!

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Warm and Cool Dinos by Grade 1

First graders have been learning all about warm and cool colors.  For this project they learned how to draw dinosaurs using ovals and rectangles, and then used either warm or cool colors for the dinosaur and the opposite for the background.