More pumpkin & studio fun!

Miss Wiemer's kindergarten class did a wonderful job of using paint for the first time this week!

These third grade friends created a sign to remind children of the "rules" of Rex! 

It's amazing how the children take ownership in all aspects of the Dragonfly Studio!  Have a fabulous weekend!

Welcome Rex!

Have you heard the Dragonfly Studio has a real, live dragon?!  It's true!  Rex the bearded dragon is here!  The kids have been wonderful with welcoming him to PES.

Our new kindergarten friends learned how to make orange paint this week by mixing red and yellow to make a pumpkin   for orange week!  We also mixed yellow and blue to make green leaves and stems!

What amazing artists we have!

Sorry, Mom! I ate my artwork!

One of my favorite end of the year art activities for kindergarten is the edible color wheel!  The kids had a great time mixing primary colored frosting into secondary colors! 

Older students were busy with the opening of our favorite, Inventors Studio! They love taking recycled materials and creating something new!

He made a droid to go with his shirt!  

We ended the week with Track and Field day and then the ever famous, pie the teacher assembly.  This year I watched my co-workers take numerous pies from the sidelines!

Leather Stamping Old School Style

Third and fourth grade students have been experiencing leather stamping, thanks to some generous donations a couple years ago!  

Many are so engaged they didn't want to stop for a photo!

Kindergarten friends had stations set up for making aliens after listening to Aliens Love Underpants.  

This week we will cut up our painted papers! 

Due to the announcement of the 5th Grade Wax Museum and being a parent to a 5th grader on April 28th, we will be rescheduling the Art Show to another night.  I will post it as soon as Mrs. Brockway, Mrs. Hickman and I can confirm a new date.  Thanks for your understanding!

Welcome 2016!

This week we discussed and brainstormed goals for the second half of the school year.  Everyone wants to earn opening more studios!

Kindergarten classes listened to What Do You Do With an Idea?  The children thought of ideas of how they could change the world.  They drew their ideas and then painted over the crayons with watercolors.  This was some of their first time painting with watercolors and they did awesome!

Kindergarten Corn Syrup Painting

It becomes difficult to take pictures during our really messy project days, but today I managed to get a couple of our kindergarteners painting with corn syrup and finishing with glitter.  The syrup dries shiny!  (I added a little dish soap to aid in cleanup).

Information about WOW piece number 3 came home in communicators last week with report cards.  Students in grades 1-4 should be working on either a toy or a game for the art show with support from home.  These pieces will be for our art show and must include a typed artist statement.  An artist statement includes the student's name, grade level, teacher, a little bit about what their artwork is, how it was made, their favorite part(s) and how they could make their piece even better.  WOW piece #3 is due April 27th for the art show on the 28th.  Please do not submit early as I have limited storage for pieces.  Parents were to have emailed me by last Monday if they were not able to work on these at home.  Please let me know ASAP if this is an issue so I can make arrangements to help.

Kindergarten students will be creating artwork for the art show in class.  If you are able to assist in set up and/or cleanup during the show, please send me an email.  Thank you always for your support!

Snow Paint is "snow" much fun!

Want a fun, cheap way to paint with your kids at home?  Snow paint!  You've seen it on Pinterest all over, so we tried it today.  Who better to try something new with?  Kindergarten!  It was "snow" much fun!  Students listened to The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats to tie literacy into our lesson.  We mixed equal parts of shaving cream (not gel) and drippy glue and painted with old paintbrushes.

At another studio, we made snowflakes with ripped aluminum foil.  Great fine motor practice!  Plus they handled the liquid glue beautifully!

We are so happy to get back into the routine and what better way to start the week than with art!

Purple Week!

Kindergarten students created purple shape artwork today after hearing, Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Some grades are earning new studio openings this week!  Looking forward to adding choice painting studio!

What a fun and busy week before Spring Break!

We started the week out on Monday with kindergarten experimenting with finger-painting.  I was shocked at how many kids had never experienced this medium.  They had a wonderful time and we will definitely be bringing the paints out again soon!

Finger-painting is F-U-N!

I was able to create another Animoto video about this year's Fun Fair last weekend.  This is a great website/ app to use!  You can make a 30 second video for free, or a longer one for a yearly subscription.  Super easy to use.  Thank you to all of our volunteers for the Fun Fair and a BIG shout-out to Ashley Hoffman for all her dedication to making kids smile!

On Friday, I had the pleasure of accompanying Miss Wiemer's class for our math rotations!  The kids had a great time playing different Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks games.

Hope everyone has a wonderful spring break!