November 2025

Parent Teacher Conferences

November 6, 2025

Parents and Guardians can meet with me virtually to discuss your child's progress in Art, this Thursday, November 6 in one of two sessions:

Afternoon Session: 12:20 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.

Evening Session: 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

If you would like to schedule a specific time to meet, send me a note via my email:

sbogolubov@schools.nyc.gov

The link for meeting is:

https://meet.google.com/mwx-dgkb-gee?authuser=0

SC K, 1st Grade

Squirrel Collage and

Fall Leaf Sponge Stamping

Our SC Kindergarten and 1st graders stamped backgrounds of leaf shapes in warm fall colors and produced squirrel collages following sequenced directions that included creating texture with line.

1st Grade

Native American Heritage Teepee

Recognizing National Native American Heritage month, 1st graders designed mixed media teepees using the primary colors of red, yellow and blue. Students conceptualized themselves living in the past when Native Americans had nomadic lives and used teepees made from animal hides and furs for mobile homes. Like some of the nomadic peoples, students decorated their teepees to tell imagined stories of daily life.

3RD Grade

Folk-Styled Forest Landscapes

Third grade classes learned to draw folk-styled forest trees. They were also challenged to invent some folk-styled trees from their imaginations and paint their artworks with a variety of crayons. Watercolors were applied for sky and land creating a wax resist effect.

Thanksgiving

Textured Turkey

Some 3rd grade classed drew and colored turkeys using colored pencils in recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday. Students were specifically required to focus on texture with a variety of lines and to use their imaginations to provide settings for their texture-styled turkeys.

4th Grade

Complementary Colored Landscape

Many 4th grade classes continued to complete their landscapes that were begun last month showcasing complementary colors. Complementary colors are those that sit across the color wheel e.g., red and green, orange and blue, and yellow and purple.

1st - 5th GrAdeS

Stop Motion Animation

Film-Making

Three years ago I had a dream to develop a media arts filmmaking program at PS 008. After attending numerous Department of Education Professional Development Programs for enhancing the Arts in our schools and meeting many Arts Professionals in the community, I was inspired to write a grant proposal to begin this process via the creation of a Stop Motion Animation Artist Residency.

Supported by our Principal Ms. Tahiraj-Sadrija and Assistant Principal Mr. Dipaola along with securing a partnership with Magic Box Productions, this dream has become a reality. Beginning this past October and continuing through March 2026 with the support of our administration and many staff members, students in five classes including bilingual groups and self-contained classes are receiving filmmaking experience designed to enhance language development, build computer skills, expand creativity, expression and collaboration via the arts. This effort is being led by practicing filmmaker Danilo Randjic-Coleman.

To date, student groups have developed plots and designed colored paper film sets including a desert, beach, forest and outer space locations among many others.

Stay tuned. A culminating Film Festival to view the films will be offered to the PS 008 community in celebration of this very special program in the new year.