Thursday, December 19, 2013

8th Grade Eyes on You!

8th grade finished up the semester by painting eyes on a piece of wood. Students started project by doing an eye study and drawing human eyes in different expressions. Then students picked eyes of their choice, some human, some animals and completed a drawing. After learning about using acrylic paints students painted the eyes. Wow! What fun! This 8th grade class will be missed but we hope to see many of you in next semesters advanced art class. 












3rd Grade Dragons!

3rd grade read the poem "Dragon on the Playground" and learned many new vocabulary words. Students then created their own dragons. Here are some that they are working on. 





Read the poem! It is fun and maybe it will inspire you to draw your own dragon! 

There's a dragon on the playground
who descended from the skies.
He swooped down on the schoolyard
where he took us by surprise.

He leapt across the blacktop
in a single bounding stride,
erupting flames and lava
to incinerate the slide.

He reared his huge and scaly head
and flapped his leathery wings,
then set the soccer field ablaze
and blackened all the swings.

He cauterized the asphalt
with a sudden, fiery flash.
Then reeled upon the seesaw
and converted it to ash.

He melted all the monkey bars.
The sand was molten glass.
With nothing left to liquefy
he headed for our class.

I doubt we'll soon be rid of him
despite the fires he's set.
You see, our teacher likes him,
so he's now the teacher's pet.

-Kenn Nesbitt


 

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

7th Grade Animal Relief Print

What a beautiful job 7th grade did with their relief animal print. Students are still working on printing so more to come! 





Friday, December 6, 2013

2nd Grade Busy Work Day!

Today 2nd grade was busy finishing up one project their "Fall Birch Trees" by adding adding animals and insects other students were adding details to their "Reflective City" project. What a wonderful class and great clean up! Good work Mrs. Rodriguez's class!!

















Thursday, December 5, 2013

7th Grade Notan







Through the Keyhole - 8th Grade


8th graders have been examining themselves and what makes them unique. In the project “Through the Keyhole" students started by creating a web about themselves. They had to include 6 descriptive words and then symbols or items to represent the word.  Students had to include a total of 12 items on an unique web.

 Students then learned about creating textures with colored pencils.

Finally, students used the idea of looking through a keyhole to represent a world that represented them.  They had to incorporate the symbols from their web along with texture in some way. Students are still working hard on this project but here is a peek at what they have been doing.












In progress!!! 













MORE! Klimt Animals

Great work Ms. Maddock's 5th Grade!