Up! Balloon House

Our SC kindergarten and 1st grade students are reviewing shapes and learning to use them to create a collage of a house floating in the sky carried up by a group of balloons, inspired by the movie Up!.  Students Identified and named the basic geometric shapes: triangle, rectangle, square, and circle. They stamped dots for balloons, assembled  geometric shapes to build  a house and expressed their creativity  while practicing fine motor coordination.

Fireflies

This first grade lesson blends nature, imagination, and storytelling— all while teaching students how to use shape and color to express light and movement. First graders learned to draw fireflies and add the beetle's glow by collaging their drawings on yellow-colored paper circles pasted to black paper. Students also learned the meaning of translucent as they drew with white oil pastels, contour lines of mason jars onto the black paper. A splash of white dots completes the illusion of an evening scene.

Dinosaurs in the City

Second graders are Inspired by Barnard Most’s book, If the Dinosaurs Came Back, in which the author/artist envisions dinosaurs as helpful to humans. Students are creating their own magical citiscapes in which a favorite friendly dinosaur visits. Students are exploring a variety of lines to draw their cities and learning to use emphasis in their work by limiting their use of color to only the three primary colors - red, yellow, and blue! They are also learning to shade their dinosaurs to look three-dimensional.

Mexican Sombreros

In celebration of National Hispanic Month, all 3rd graders are designed and produced sombreros, a cultural icon recognized nationally in Mexico. 

PS 008 student sombreros are made of paper and can actually be worn. Each hat is unique and made of colorful shapes and lines. Some feature beads on pipe cleaners sparked by each student's creativity and imagination.