Dia De Los Muertos Printmaking

We had a fabulous time in 3rd grade learning about the Mexican Halloween tradition of Dia De Los Muertos. We were able to learn some new Spanish words and become more culturally aware. We also learned about printmaking and we made our own prints with a Dia De Los Muertos theme!

Halloween Shrunken Heads!

Our Halloween Shrunken heads were part triumph and part tragedy. Tragically, about 70 percent of our heads got really moldy so we had to throw them out! Now we know that green apples work the best for this project. However, we had great success with our other apples, which actually dried out really cute. We had draculas, goblins, ogres, pirates and witches. Hopefully we can do this project again this year without mold because we had a great time making our apples.

6th Grade Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

In 6th grade, we just finished our unit on Ancient Egypt. We learned about Egyptian painting styles and created our own self-portrait as an Egyptian god or goddess.

5th Grade Colonial Silhouettes

In Fifth Grade we are studying the 13 colonies. We learned that in colonial times, painters were in short supply, so most people cut silhouettes out of paper to create a portrait of a person. We traced our own silhouettes and made a modern-day portrait to show the things that we enjoy most.

Hide and Seek Ghosts

Halloween is almost here! In first grade we played hide and seek ghosts. We drew our ghosts on white paper with a white crayon and then we painted over them with watercolor paints to make them magically appear. We had so much fun!

Mr. Picasso Head

In Second Grade, we are learning about polygons. We learned about Pablo Picasso, an artist who used alot of polygons in his work and also was part of the cubism movement. We did our own Picasso style faces with polygons in the background.

Kindergarten Sculptures

In Kindergarten we are learning about the Statue of Liberty. We learned alot about different types of sculptures in art class, and then constructed our own paper sculptures.

4th Grade Apple Witch Faces!

Apple witch faces are fun for Halloween, so we decided to make our own "shrunken heads" for Halloween. This week we carved our apple heads to look like scary witches!

Kindergarten does Kandinsky!

In Kindergarten we are working on cutting and pasting. We learned about artist Wassily Kandinsky and his colorful circle pictures. We practiced our cutting skills by picking out different colors and making our own circles!

3rd Grade outerspace art!

In Third grade we are learning about the Sun and the Moon. We created our own outerspace scenes with oil pastels and then painted over them with black paint to finish our cosmic creations!

Fifth Grade Native American Pottery Pumpkins

In Fifth Grade we learned about native american pottery designs. We then painted our pumpkins to look like pottery!

First Grade Healthy Art

In First Grade we learned about painter Guiseppe Archimboldo and his fantastic fruit and vegetable art. We decided to do our own tasty drawings after his unique style.

2nd Grade Matisse Cut-outs

In second grade we learned about the artist Henri Matisse and his work. We learned that Matisse lost the ability to paint later on in his life, so he cut out shapes using scissors. Here is one of his pieces called "Jazz"

6th Grade Ivory Soap Sphinx

In connection with our Egypt unit in 6th grade, the sixth graders all carved a bar of ivory soap into an Egyptian Sphinx. We learned alot about unlocking a shape out of something plain to make a sculpture!

Native American Sand Art

In Fourth Grade we are learning about Native Americans. In art class this week we learned about the sacred healing powers of Native American sand paintings. We then created our own sand paintings after the style of the Navajos.

Renee Magritte eyes

In Fifth Grade this week we learned about Surrealist Artist Renee Magritte. We looked at a bunch of his artwork and then created our own Surrealist artwork after the work of Renee Magritte. We created eyeballs and then inside of the eye we put something that might be a little surreal in nature.