Kindergartners are creating a page for their Art Alphabet Book that will go home at the end of the school year.  We are reading a book about manners called The Monster’s Monster.  We are following up with “M” is for Making a Monster.  Students will be drawing, cutting and gluing circles and rectangles together to create a monster collage.  They will add details with black crayons.

1st graders are working on 3D monsters.  Learning to tear, bend, cut and glue papers together to create a 3D monster.

2nd graders are using a paper pattern, scissors, and glue to form a sphere.  They will then use more paper to create a cylinder for a stem, paper bending and curling techniques for leaves and vines to create a pumpkin from the sphere.  If students have time and desire they will use paper to cut and glue jack-o-lantern features onto their pumpkin.

3rd graders are creating “Witch Feet”.  We are connecting to language arts through the use of homophones and tongue twister.  “Which witch feet would you wish to wash?”  This is a 2D collage and pattern lesson.

4th graders are using a paper pattern, scissors, and glue to form a large sphere.  They will then use more paper to create a cylinder for a stem, paper bending and curling techniques for leaves and vines to create a pumpkin from the sphere.  If students have time and desire they will use paper to cut and glue jack-o-lantern features onto their pumpkin.

5th graders are completing the follow-up writing reflection for the group 3D Witch project and getting back to the completion of their VanGogh Impressionist Sunflower Still Life in tempera.

Next week we will all be finalizing our VanGogh lessons.  Look around the school for our displays.

We will also begin our Dale Chihuly “Glass Installation” for the foyer.  We are in need of empty plastic water bottles!