DLBE @ MKES

Art Studio Newsletter *Spring Edition*

Our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade artists have been working with clay!

Grade Level Galleries

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Artists teaching artists!

The studio stroll

Featured this quarter: Mrs. Castillo's Kindergarten Class! They are glazing their clay butterflies!


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Our artistic Community

Enrichment spotlight!


Earth day!

This year on Earth day each grade level participated in different activities to help clean and beautify our school! We made a weaving that will be hung in the school out of recycled materials and fabrics. 2nd grade decorated butterflies made out of recycled materials that will be hung on the fences around our school!




Family art festival

On May 19th students got to create art outside on the field with their families after school! There were 6 stations with different art supplies where kids made paper bag puppets, spin art, marble painting, paper hats and crowns and much more! We also had a face and hand painting table! Looking forward to next year!


A little about our art program

Here in BCSD our elementary school art experience for your children is the philosophy "Teaching for artistic behavior" aka TAB. The guiding principles of TAB are:


  1. What do artists do?

  2. The child is the artist

  3. The classroom is the child's studio


TAB is a choice-based art program where students work in media centers to create authentic, student-driven work. Students determine what their artwork is about, what it looks like, and what materials or media to use.

The learning focus is on developing student creativity, creative process, composition, communication, craftsmanship and community. Opportunities for skill-development happen frequently in different ways that appeal to the different needs, interests, and learning styles of each individual student.

To sum it up, we provide a space for young artists to be themselves, explore and express their ideas/interests/emotions, challenge themselves, discover new things, connect with each other and be creatively empowered and celebrated as they grow every day!