2022-2023 School Year
Fantasy Maps
Burlap Sewing
Walrus Portrait
Thanksgiving Turkeys
The Scream
20 Color Challenge
Students learned about color theory and mixed 20 colors from just red, yellow, blue and white.
Alma Thomas Collage
Students learned about African American artist Alma Thomas. Students made radial collages without overlapping their strips of paper.
Beautiful Oops
Students read the book "Beautiful Oops" By Barney Saltzberg. Then they were given a paper with a "mistake". This mistake may have been an ink splot, tear, collage paper, or fold. Students used their imagination and creativity to make the mistake into something beautiful!
2019- 2020 School Year
Winter Watercolor Bears
25 Color Challenge
The Scream
Clay Frogs
Drawing Inside a Dwelling
2018-2019 School Year
Tropical Flamingo Party
Paper Parks
Faith Ringgold Inspired Story Quilts
Clay Frogs
Burlap Sewing
25 Color Challenge
2nd Graders mixed 25 colors on their own with only red, yellow, blue, black and white tempera paint. Wow!
Frida Kahlo Inspired Portraits
The Scream
Gaston the Dog
2017- 2018 School Year
Flamingos
Paper Parks
Faith Ringgold Story Quilts
Sewing
Hedgehogs
Students read the mitten by Jan Brett and painted hedgehogs. We learned how to work with watercolors and created texture by stamping with forks.
New Years Self Portraits
Students looked in a mirror to draw a self portrait while using a grid to learn about proportion. We picked a few goals for ourselves in 2018 and used letter stamps and metallic colored pencil to write them.
The Scream Parodies
Second graders learned about the artist Edvard Munch and expressionism. We used warm colors and wavy lines to depict the sky and cool colors for the water using chalk pastels. Students illustrated something that made them scream.
Pumpkin Watercolors
Clay Dinosaurs
Second graders learned about dinosaurs and how to draw a dinosaur by combining simple shapes. We then moved on to building shapes out of clay to make a 3D dinosaur. Students got to pick their own type of dinosaur to build and looked at 3D plastic dinosaurs while building.Dinosaurs were painted with acrylic paint and sealed with modge podge.
2016 - 2017 School Year
Trapeze Artists
Flamingos
Faith Ringgold Story Quilts
Paper Parks
Sewn Hearts
Jasper Johns Birthday Paintings
Clay Frogs/Turtles
Edvard Munch "The Scream" Chalk Drawings
Leroy Neiman Lions
Second grade students mixed oil pastels and baby oil to design their own colors. Students drew and painted a colorful lion inspired by the artist Leroy Neiman using their made up color. These turned out awesome!