Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Clay is coming!

We are starting to learn about clay and sculpture. The younger grades are starting out with a video and some experimentation. Kindergarten (shown above) first works with modeling clay before starting with clay that comes from the earth. 
We will be starting to make our clay projects very soon. However, it will be many months until they come home. The construction, drying, firing and glazing of clay is a very time consuming process. Please be patient waiting for the clay projects to come home. It will be worth the wait!

Ice Skaters by First Grade


First grade learned how to draw a cartoon ice skater following step by step directions. They completed their drawings with a watercolor/crayon resist. Our final step was to add a frame with a patterned border. Beautiful work first grade!
 

Monday, January 6, 2014

Board room display!


Kindergarten trees were on display in the board room during the month of December! Many thanks to our kindergarten artists for sharing their work!