Fourth and Fifth Graders Drawing a Bicycle

                     Students drawing the road bike

The fourth and fifth grade students spent several classes closely observing a bicycle, carefully drawing it, adding a background and then adding a rider!

Fourth and Fifth Grade Historical Puppets

                     Harvey Milk, Gandhi, MLK, Helen Keller, and more

                       Lincoln, Louis Armstrong, Crazy Horse and more

The fourth and fifth graders spent the last few months creating extraordinary hand puppets of specific  historical characters they had studied in class. They made the heads from paper mache, painted them, added yarn hair, sewed their clothes and finally added an artifact to help the viewer accurately identify their character. They are amazing!

Middle School Students Drawing a Bicycle

                         Zara, Kiki, and Nora drawing the Bianchi

                       Zali and Zara looking at the bike

As an exercise in observational drawing, the middle school students closely observed Jack's Bianchi road bike, and discovered many intricate shapes and forms that presented fine drawing challenges. The results of their efforts were impressive.

K/1s Working on Self-Portraits

Working with great concentration

Painting in details

The K/1 students have taken on the task of looking carefully in the mirror and painting what they see.

2/3s Working on Their Self-Portraits

                                                    Hunter painting himself

                                                 Heath and Adam at work

The 2/3 students have been observing themselves in the mirror and painting their annual self- portraits trying hard to capture their likeness in paint.

4/5s Create Historical Puppets

                                               Stephen sewing on a hand

                                                  Jenna cutting her fabric

The 4/5 students have been building hand puppets of  historical characters they studied in class.

The heads were made from paper mache, painted and then the bodies were sewn with felt and adornments were added.

Middle School Painting the Hudson River

                                                      Sara texturing water

                                             A group at work

Middle school students added to the ongoing Hudson River hallway project by drawing mansions and skyscrapers and then painting river paper using a paste and paint mixture and then texturing the surface.