September

Mid September to mid October is National Hispanic and Indigenous People's Month. 

All grades I am teaching this year - kindergarten, 2nd and 5th grades are celebrating via Artmaking!

Kindergarten students are learning about line-making and creating a paper version of a Mexican blanket, (sometimes worn as a poncho) adorned with lines they are practicing to draw with crayons. Through this project, students are also learning to use a glue stick to paste colorful paper lines on brightly colored sheets of paper to suggest the blanket designs. In addition, they are learning to use a pair of scissors to cut various lines and create fringe. Some of the student work will be displayed on the bulletin board in the mini school in October (top photo).

Second graders will be practicing their line making skills via a Peruvian llama and carpet-inspired collage. It will feature a friendly shaded llama and a variety of lines created with colorful paint sticks and watercolor painted backgrounds suggesting a Peruvian carpet (middle photo). 

Fifth graders will create paper molas, inspired by the brightly colored fabrics created by the indigenous people of the San Blas Islands, which are found off the coast of Panama. Molas literally means cloth in the local language. The designs used for molas are also used for pillows and quilts, and they are sold as art to tourists who visit the islands on cruise ships and art galleries in Panama. Our students will create paper designs that have meaning for themselves, inspired by the brightly-colored art style of the San Blas indigenous people (bottom photo).