This winter students at PRES have been exploring various methods of 3D art making such as fiber arts, clay, cardboard sculpture, paper clay and much much more!
The Galleries
This is a great place to get a peek at students in the active process of creating alongside videos and images of completed work and reflections
*Click the images to view the Grade-Level galleries*
5th grade
4th grade
3rd grade
2nd grade
1st grade
Kindergarten
The Studio Stroll
Featured this quarter: 3rd Grade Mrs. Sachs' Class
IMG_3229.MOVArtist Cafe
TIPS on talking to your child about their art:
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:
What do artists do?
The child is the artist.
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!
What to expect each trimester?
This art newsletter will be blasted out each marking period/season (Fall, Winter, Spring) with new insights, featured artists, and updates from the art studio! Each grade will have a gallery where artists will post images of their creative explorations, some will include artist statements. Not every student will be featured every quarter so you will be surprised by new artists! By the end of the school year every student will have been featured at least once.
Our Artistic Community
Spotlight on art enrichment at PRES
In art enrichment this winter students in grades 3, 4, and 5 have been learning about the 6 stages of clay and have begun exploring hand building techniques to create coil pots or slab built containers and 3D letters. We talked about scratching and attaching to make your clay stick, glazing techniques as well as form vs. function.
Ms. Ferreira and Ms. Mazzili collaborated with 5th Grade students during their enrichment time to decorate wooden shoes so they can teach their kindergarten buddies how to tie their shoes. They decorated their shoes with their own interests as well as the things they learned about their buddies and added motivational messages to encourage their buddies to persist and learn this new skill.
