February, 2009 Mrs. J. Peterson
It is hard to believe that we are half way through the school year. The time just goes by so quickly. All of the View Ridge students are busy in integrated arts with special projects right now.
The Kindergarten students are learning about watercolors: how to manage the tools and how to paint a picture with background and foreground. I think they just like painting and mixing colors.
The first and second grade students are weaving. We started with paper weavings and now are doing fiber weavings. The first grades are weaving fabric into new or different fabric. They are learning the process of weaving and how it is the way fabric for their clothing is made. The second grade students are weaving on cardboard looms with yarn. There is an undertone of "over and under and over and under" that can be heard while they are concentrating on the weaving. Watch for these projects to come home the first part of March.
The 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students are doing Australian Aboriginal style art. Some classes are doing X-ray art and others are doing dot art. We have looked at samples, watched a DVD, and are in the middle of our projects. The hardest part of these projects is the time. Students have to work, walk away, come back and work some more. This is hard; so many want to be done in a few minutes that having a project that is planned to take four or five visits is hard. They want to finish and move on. The work they are doing as a group is very nice. I look forward to sending the finished projects home sometime in early March. For those that don't finish by then I will be holding them until after Spring break. I want them finished and I have something else planned for March that I need to get to.
March will be kite month in Pt 21. Each grade will be making and flying their own kites. We will measure, cut, tape, glue, tie and fly our kites. I hope some of you will join us March 25th for our kite fly in. We will go out by grades to the old Jr. High field and have a great try at flying. When the day is done the kites will all go home and I hope will be flown many more times over the Spring break.
One last piece to share, in January the 5th grade classes made snowflake trees to be the center pieces for the Bremerton Rehab. Center. For February, the 1st grade students made Valentine's cards. It was so hard for them to give up the cards. Everyone of them wanted to take their card home to family. The seniors and others that live at the rehabilitation center here in east Bremerton are so thankful for the student's work that brightens their day. It has been a very good project for View Ridge students to be doing. Each month a different grade has done something.
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