K/1s Study Northeastern Animals

The fox

Opossum and offspring

Painting the frog

The squirrel and its background

Drawing the chipmunk

Working on the beaver

In conjunction with their classroom study of an animal of the Northeast the K/1s looked at a photo, and figured out the shapes they needed to draw it. They then drew their animal and a background, and added color with liquid water colors.

4/5 Iroquois Tunnel Books

Assembling the book

Drawing the back page

Figuring out the scene for the last page

Measuring the border pages

Cutting the border pages

The 4/5 students are demonstrating their knowledge of some aspect of Iroquois life by creating a tunnel book. The end page is a picture of the Iroquois involved in some specific task. The center pages are borders on which they have added details like trees or animals.

6/7/8 Op Art Boxes

A finished cube

Three more cubes

Working on the fourth side of the cube

Working from a sketch

After looking at the work of British Op Artist Bridget Riley and other eye-popping black and white designs, middle school students tried their hand at designing an Op Art cube with at least four different optical designs on the six sides of the cube.

Middle School Students Work on Positive/Negative Pictures

Finished work

One more

This image seemed to be swirling around

A positive and negative octopus

The middle school students spent a couple of classes considering positive and negative spaces while working on cut paper black and white designs.

K/1s Make Collages for Their Bees

A Bee on a Flower

Hovering Bee

Cutting flower shapes

Gluing down the ground line

Many drops of glue

The K/1s worked on large flower collages to create a background for their large bees.

Middle School Continuous Line Drawings

Keeping the pencil attached to the paper

Working across the composition

Getting in the details

The middle school students worked from a long, horizontal still life set-up to create continuous line drawings. They began at one end of the still life and couldn't lift their pencil off the paper until the whole set-up was captured. The results look a bit like wire sculptures while helping to build increased eye-hand coordination.

K/1s Draw Oil Pastel Bees

Mixing yellows and black

Large, clear stripes

Working first on the drawing

After some experimentation with color mixing with oil pastels, and in conjunction with science and classroom bee studies, the K/1s tried their hand at drawing bees while singing a song about their head, thorax and abdomen.