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.

Metal Tooling by Grade 5

Fifth graders discussed the purpose of masks in our society, and viewed and discussed masks from all over Africa.  These are made by metal tooling, and are based on animal masks from Africa.

Texture Owls by Grade 1

First graders used a variety of tools to stamp texture into their clay owls.  They finished their pieces by painting them with either warm or cool colors.