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May 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten observed and discussed artwork by Piet Mondrian. They looked at the colors, shapes, and lines used in his w ...
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Self Portrait
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May 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Second grade drew above/below the sea plant/animal life on sheets of muslin and painted them with watercolors. Then they ...
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Warm/Cool Owls
(129 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
First grade read a story called "Owl at Home" by Arnold Lobel. We then drew and traced our owls with a black paint and g ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten made owls out of black paper backs and construction paper after reading "Owl at Home" by Arnold Lobel. We i ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten discussed the things that we find in and on the ground when spring arrives. We used our index finger to mak ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Mrs. Ey's class used straws and watercolors to create a tye dye effects on their t-shirts.
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Second grade designed and built their rabbit puppets. They could add clothing or make a natural rabbit with fur.
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
First grade read "Hopper Hunts for Spring" by Marcus Pfister. We then drew hopper and colored him in with other pastels ...
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Martha Rabbit
(152 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
We read "Martha B. Rabbit" by Shirley Barber. Then we made Martha rabbit with a paper plate, oil pastels, and buttons.
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Apr 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten traced and cut out 3 hearts to make a shamrock. Then painted a rainbow and added a pot of gold.
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Mar 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Second grade examined artwork by Georges Seurat. We discussed the style, technique, colors, and history of Impressionism ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
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Mar 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten read "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Suess for Dr. Suess's birthday. We used Model Magic to create our eggs and ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
We used stamps to create a landscape.
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Mar 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten had a discussion about sunsets and the many different colors we see. Then we painted with glue and tissue p ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Stephen Rishko
It's raining color by melting crayons and creating secondary colors mixing the primary colors.
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
First grade went over what a mandala was and how others express themselves using a mandala. We interpreted mandalas made ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Kindergarten created a cut paper collage of a yellow bird sitting on a perch, next to its birdhouse, during the winter. ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
We read "Snowtime" by Dave and Julie Saunders. A story about two ducks that get stuck in a snow storm and end up on stag ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
We made masquerade masks after reading "Carl's Masquerade" by Alexandra Day. The masks are made of paper plates. We drew ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
Second grade used their imaginations and drew a picture of what they would see out of their window if they were living i ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
First grade used scratch-art paper to create and snowman landscape. We learned about foreground, middle ground, and back ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Katie Wasco
We read "Snowflake Bentley" by Jacqueline Briggs Martin about a boy who loved snowflakes so much that he figured out how ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Our kindergarten classes made reindeer with cut paper and tie-dyed noses! If you look closely, many of these reindeer w ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We read the book, The Little Fir Tree, by Margaret Wise Brown.
We then created these beautiful trees by "stamping" the ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We used sponges to create these radial designs in the shape of a poinsettia.
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Emphasizing radial symmetry, our second grade students created these beautiful poinsettias.
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Our first grade students rolled out clay to create these gingerbread houses. The natural color of the clay created the ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Kindergarten did a lacing project and practiced their cutting skills to create these whimsical stockings!
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
These "keepers" were created by little hands in real clay! After they were formed, I fired them for the first time in t ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
After a discussion of Pop Art and an introduction to the works of Any Warhol and Oldenburg, our Kindergarten students cr ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
My pre-student teacher, Ms. Zappala, read the book, "THE DOT" to our kindergarten students. She explained pointillism a ...
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November Skies
(126 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
This exciting projects began with a rubber cement moon. We then blew waterproof black India Ink through straws to creat ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We drew Native American children on brown kraft paper and colored in the drawings with crayons. Just in time for Thanks ...
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Over The River
(71 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We read a book, Over the River A Turkey's Tale, and draw and paint a colorful turkey, just in time for Thanksgiving.
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We study the works of Vincent Van Gogh and emphasize color, texture and movement. These wonderful tempera paintings on ...
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Witches' Legs
(59 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We saw a short clip from the Wizard of Oz and read the book, "Miss Nelson is Missing" to create these fun collages.
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We painted our black and white directed drawings to reflect the colors used in the story.
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We read the book, Humbug Witch, about a little girl dressed as a witch for Halloween. She had a good sturdy broom, a sl ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Each year at the beginning of the school year, we draw a self-portrait, emphasizing the proper proportions and placement ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Notice the remendous difference between Kindergarten and 1st grade self-portraits!
We emphasize the proper placement an ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
What great smiles! Aren't they just precious?
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Just For Fun
(16 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We had a few minutes between projects, so we read PICTURE PERFECT written and illustrated by a group of 2nd graders from ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We mixed red and yellow to make orange and blue and yellow to make green. We are working on our color theory and cuttin ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We drew spider webs and cut out an oval and 8 legs to create our spiders. See how we folded the legs and glued them to ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Our Kindergarten students mixed their own orange paint and green paint as the basis for this Halloween-inspired color th ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We did a directed drawing with marker and then squeezed black glue over the lines. After the glue dried, we used liquid ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Working with the concept of symmetry, we folded a large piece of paper in half horizontally. After spraying the paper w ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We talked about OP Art and created these Stars & Stripes project just in time for Veteran's Day. Come to the Music conc ...
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Self Portraits
(24 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Stephen Rishko
Self Portraits on white paper with tempera paint.
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
When a student finishes their art project, they are allowed to do a free choice drawing. Occasionally, they'll ask to h ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
After reading a silly book about a scarecrow, we painted the sky, ground and wheat field for the background of our scare ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We had a shortened art class after an assembly on weather. The instructor showed us a cloud, a volcano and lightning in ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Just in time for Halloween, our first grade students made friendly Frankenstein posters. (Hats off to Mary Shelley, the ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Just in time to honor Christopher Columbus, our Kindergarten students drew multi-sail ships with marker, colored with cr ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Kindergarten students created wax resist leaves with oil pastels and then painted over the entire paper.
Everywhere tha ...
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Autumn Trees
(125 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We drew the letter "Y", covered it with glue and torn brown paper to indicate bark, and sponge painted 6 different color ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Our first grade students learned about the warm and cool colors and painted a seascape using the warm colors in the sky, ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Our Kindergarten students studied the color wheel and created their own color wheels using the three primary colors, the ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Our kindergarten students saw a video about Johnny Appleseed who planted apple trees across the country.
We practiced o ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Paul Cezanne said "I will astonish Paris with an apple". His still life paintings of fruits and flowers are filled with ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Second grade tried their hands at weaving using an Op Art theme.
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Grey Mouse
(115 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
We read the story of Grey Mouse (by Anke de Vries) who was "blue" because she was a boring grey color. She painted her ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
Second grade created these fun weavings on a pre-cut Op Art paper loom!
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
After reading a poem about fireworks, our first graders created these wonderful oil pastel drawings on black paper!
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
First grade created All Star Readers banners and megaphones for the book fair.
Pencil and markers drawings were enhan ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Margaret Melody
In our first art class, we read a book about shapes. We then drew a Zebra using rectangles!
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Dec 2012
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