Ms. Stewart's Class Show off their Snowy scenes!!!

Some 3rd Graders Paint their Animal Sculptures

Children paint their sculptures in 2 sessions. In one session they paint their sculptures one color. During the second session they paint them with small detail brushes to add hair, eyes, nose, mouth or other small identifying markings.

Wire sculptures of figures in motion are thickened using modeling clay (2nd grade)

To thicken their sculptures children used modeling clay and wrapped the wire in different widths. The torso had to have the most amount of clay and the arms and legs had to have the least. The head had to have a spherical shape versus a flat circle shape.

Children had to begin at the legs and move up the body until all of the figure was covered.

3rd Graders create skin tones on their Olympic figures using TINTS and SHADES

We begin our landscape paintings in 4th grade

The last two paintings have prepared us to create a painting in which various skills could be combined. In this painting children are expected to know about mixing colors. They are given 3 primaries, black and white and they are to use their knowledge about colors, tints and shades to render their landscapes. In addition, children are expected to work within the process which they have been learning about the past 3 weeks. They begin their painting with large areas of color. Details such as trees, homes, people will be added in the end with smaller, using detail brushes.

Children are shown how to use a palette to pre-mix their colors before using them.

Finished 4-legged animals (George's Class)