Charcoal Art
7th Grade has focused on the techniques of using graphite and charcoal: hatching, cross-hatching, blending, reductive drawing and shading, using various tools.
Miss Kleinschuster
Let’s build a building
6th Grade is full of budding architects! They have learned to draw buildings in one- and two-point perspectives.
Radial Designs
Students in Fifth Grade have been mirroring their own work and making radial designs. They have been practicing with a rough and final draft before painting.
Miss Kleinschuster
Color Wheel Fun
Students have been focusing on color theory: naming and mixing colors on the color wheel. Did you know that combining opposite (complementary) colors makes the color brown?
Miss Kleinschuster
Self Portraits
Students have been having lots of fun making Heuri Matisse-style self portraits and practicing with the color wheel.
Miss Kleinschuster
Fall into Fall
Lower elementary has been practicing and reviewing their simple shapes and celebrating the Fall season with Autumn-themed projects. Thanks for helping Miss Kleinschuster decorate her door!
Harder than it looks
Beginning a business is hard work. My 11th graders are discovering it takes more than a good idea to get a business off the ground. We worked on inventory and potential client lists. We came up with a name, logo and slogan for our company. Next month we will take our start-up loans and set up a repayment plan as we begin making profit. My 11th graders have already begun selling items they have made and are discovering how difficult profit really is.
Miss Stahler
Circus time
So far this month, Pre-K students have been able to enjoy Literacy Day and the circus. They enjoyed the circus so much that they came back very excited. They were able to watch us teachers balance a peacock feather on our noses.
Mrs. Colon
Learning our ABC’s
October has been a very informative month. The class has learned their letters from A – F. Our children have enjoyed playing games with our letter rugs. Each child had the chance to tell me about the letter and what it stood for, whether it was a fruit, vegetable, animal, etc. Out of 15 tiles, each child got five of his or her own. They have been a delightful bunch, and they are very willing to learn. They ask for more to do every day.
Mrs. Colon
What do you like?
We began our first few weeks learning about the possible reasons why people behave the way the they do and think the way they think. We are now working on how to research some interesting things about our peers. Psychologists follow the same research methods as other scientists. Because of this, we are establishing this project using the psychological methods of research. Students are using the survey method to find out what students like and why.