May is flying by fast!

Last week, kindergarteners ate their artwork!  This is one of my favorite annual projects where students create the

color wheel out of frosting and vanilla wafers and then eat it up!

We also used up our open glue bottles to make Flubber with grades 1 and 2!  Remember to be responsible with your Flubber!

We installed the Buddy Bench on the playground!

Plus two of the three 4th grade classes walked down to the Blacksmith Studio for a demonstration from Mr. D.

Friday was Track & Field day!  Thanks to Mrs. Peterson for all your work organizing this annual event!

Now it comes time to say goodbye to some amazing kids.  It has been my pleasure being your elementary (and some pre-school!) art teacher.  You are each special and wonderful in your own ways.  I cannot wait to see where life takes you!

Selfie fun!  

Hope everyone has a wonderful summer! 

Masks

I love these boys!  They are exploring the art of mask making together!  

When children are given the opportunity to take charge of their learning, amazing things take shape!  Students become more confident in their decision making skills and quickly learn there can be many outcomes to a situation.  The level of engagement is amazing.  My next step is to encourage them to make them again using different materials.  How could you make it better?  

What a fabulous week!

We started the week with a bang!  There were approximately 270 WOW pieces due on Monday.  My crews helped organize and tag all artworks for the show Tuesday evening.  A huge shout out to Mrs. VandeVoorde, Mrs. Brandenburg's fourth grade class, and Mrs. Laue's first grade class  for their help in transport and set up!  Thanks to our teachers for their patience and understanding, and assistance with organization of pieces as it is a huge task!   Thank you to Miss Weimer for helping with the cookies (provided as a donation from Mrs. Bell) table and Mrs. Brockway for working the Yuda Bands table.  There were other staff that gave help where needed that is so appreciated!  Thanks to our amazing families for creating with your children and having a wonderful involvement in the fine arts!  Your support of choice based art education has been such a rewarding experience.  Attendance was amazing and our Yuda Band table remained busy all evening with over 70 sales in two hours!  

Love our kindergarten dancing cows!   We  will begin a transition to more choice based lessons over the next few weeks.  I am excited to see what new ideas they will bring to studio!

This first grader's recycled robot golf was a very popular attraction!

Then, on Wednesday, we hosted WREX-13's Project Tornado for all our third and fourth graders!  

These girls took their weather "homework" from Miss Morgan very seriously!  

Emma and I delivered the 30 fleece tie blankets and braided ropes to Noah's Ark today and hung our 4th graders display (for the kids that chose to participate).  They were amazed at our students skills!  

These artworks were also photographed and uploaded to student's Artsonia accounts!