4/5 Historic Character Masks

Chuck Yaeger, Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dorothy Eustis, Thurgood Marshall, Amelia Earhart

Sacagawea

The 4/5s each picked a specific historical character who held a particular interest for them. They researched their person, wrote about them, made artifacts related to them, and in art class, made a paper mask representing their character.

Middle School Students Design Tee Shirts for Africa

Three shirts ready for Kenya

Three more ready to go

A chipmunk pilot!

Sliding the cardboard out from inside the shirt

Accenting with paint

Two cats and a dog

For the second year, Parker middle school students listened to Keela Dates' stories of the students at Jambo Jipya (something new) school in Kenya. To continue the connection begun last year, our students are again designing tee shirts for the boarders at Jambo Jipya. Keela will deliver the shirts along with photos of their creators in January and return with photos and shirts the Kenyan students will send back later in the winter.

2/3s Paint Dinosaurs

Iguanodon

Velociraptor

Ankylosaurus

Mixing colors

Adding detail

Making the teeth look fierce

Clarifying areas

Each student in the 2/3 class is studying a specific dinosaur. In art class they looked at the particulars of their dino.... size, proportion, texture, color (do we really know?). They drew their dinosaur, projected it onto large paper and then painted it. They then painted a background keeping in mind the scale of the trees and plants in relation to their dino.

Empty Bowls at Parker

Purchasing a K/1 bowl

Checking out the Pre-K 4s tissue paper bowls

Admiring everyones' work

A middle school bowl

A 4/5 bowl

K through 8th grade students finished building their ceramic bowls. On Dec 9th Parker community members and friends arrived to admire their work, purchase a bowl, and eat bread and soup the 8th grade cooked from vegetables they gleaned from Hancock Shaker Village. The 8th grade students talked about issues of world hunger. Tracy Neitzel from Joseph's House spoke about the issues of hunger and homelessness in our area. The event raised everyone's awareness of these important issues and raised $1156 for Joseph's House.

K/1s Paint Community Workers' Environments

The dentist appears behind the flap

The farmer and his farm

Adding watercolor

Selecting the appropriate colors

After drawing the community worker each student is researching in class, they painted their worker's environment trying to include details to help the viewer identify the worker's profession. The worker was then glued to the back of the painting and a flap cut to reveal the worker in their workplace. These will all be assembled into a classroom book.

4/5s Glaze Their Bowls

Making sure the glaze is thick enough

Applying black and violet glaze

The 4/5s are getting ready for Empty Bowls this week. They are putting the final touches of glaze on their bowls and then awaiting the results from the final firing.

K/1s Draw Community Workers' Environments

Going over lines with Sharpie

Carefully going over details

The K/1s are drawing their community workers' environments, being sure to include details that will help identify the worker they are studying. They will paint them with water colors and their workers to the back so they can appear through a cut flap!

K/1s Draw Community Workers

Adding color and details

Coloring the trash collector

The K/1s are each studying a specific community worker in the classroom. In art class they are drawing their worker, adding details to help identify what they do, and then painting their worker's environment.

K-3 Students Glaze Their Bowls

Glazing the motorcycle on the bowl's rim!

Concentrating on color selection

Covering the outside

Sharing the blue glaze

The students waited patiently for their clay bowls to be bisque fired and then went to work carefully applying glaze which will give the bowls color and a glass-like finish after the next and final firing.

Middle School Builds Bowls

Throwing on the wheels

Working with a large slab

Building up the sides

Each student in the school is making a clay bowl that will be used to raise money for Joseph's House at our Empty Bowls Event in December. The middle school students work on the wheel as well as hand building with slabs, coils, pinching, or a combination of any or all techniques.

2/3s Make Bowls

Working on the edges

Adding small details

Scoring the surface so the clay sticks together

Each student in the school is making a clay bowl that will be used to raise money for Joseph's House at our Empty Bowls Event in December. Here the 2/3s are at working on their unique designs.

K/1s Work on Clay Bowls

Getting the clay flat

Concentrating on the slab

Each student in the school is making a clay bowl that will be used to raise money for Joseph's House at our Empty Bowls Event in December. Here the K/1s are at work rolling out slabs.

K/1s' Paper Strip Constructions

Thoughtful folding

Deciding where it goes

Little drops of glue

The K/1s took a break from their careful observations to have fun making paper strip constructions of anything their imagination dreamed up.

K/1s Draw Monarch Butterflies

The finished work

And another one

Noticing the wing pattern

Drawing the second wing

The K/1s observed the symmetry of butterflies, and using a palette relating to the monarch butterfly they had observed in the classroom, they drew and colored their own. These were cut into parts and glued on blue paper leaving space between the segments.