The cold imagery themes continue in December as our whole school anticipates the chilling weather and our Family Night Winter Arts Festival featuring music, dance and visual art, taking place prior to winter break, December 18. Parents are invited to the morning and evening shows.

December 2024

SC KinderS & SC 1st GRADE

Handprint

Polar Bears

SC Kindergarten classes use their hands as templates to create Arctic Polar Bears floating on Icebergs, and hunting for fish. Wavy lines for water are created with paint sticks, and snowflakes added with stamps dipped in tempera paint.

KinderGARTEN

Chalk Pastel Shooting Stars

Kindergarten students learned that a shooting star isn’t a star at all. It’s a piece of rock melted together with other materials like metals floating in space. When this rock-like substance enters Earth's atmosphere, it's called a meteor, or shooting star. Meteors look like stars flying across the sky at super-fast speeds (e.g. 120,000 miles per hour) which causes the air in their trails to glow.

Students viewed some photos of shooting stars and then created an artwork of a shootingstar using chalk pastels which students blended with their fingers. They were amazed to discover that they could create stars by rubbing chalk outward from a star shaped piece of paper.

2nd Grade

Forest Moose, Mixed Media Landscape

Second graders studied the moose and created a mixed media landscape featuring them. A winter forest background was painted with fir trees using tempera paints. A mighty moose was drawn on brown paper and adorned with black charcoal for texture. This lesson also featured symmetry. To make matching moose horns, students folded paper in half to draw and cut a horn shape once, but producing two matching pieces which were collaged to the moose head..

Bilingual

5th Grade

Our bilingual classes have Art twice a week. Because they recieve more Art Classes, they produce extra projects. This 5th grade class invented and painted German-inspired Nutcrackers as seen in the Nutcracker Ballet they saw on a recent field trip. They explored painting their images with watercolors.