"Tar Beach" by Faith Ringgold was read by K/1 students. We talked about the quilt that Faith Ringgold made to go with the story. Students then decorated squares of paper with designs and patterns which they glued down to create a border for a paper story quilt.

Students finished their paper quilts by drawing a picture of themselves with their family doing something they like to do together.

Third grade students learned about Wayne Thiebaud and his paintings of sweets. The students learned about drawing cakes and used oil pastels to color their cakes.

Fourth grade students learned about Dia de las Muertos, Day of the Dead. The drew and colored sugar skulls. Their next class period they learned about about drawing faces in proper proportion. Their next assignment will be learning about Modigliani and drawing faces in his style.

 Fourth graders created radial name designs using a warm/cool color scheme.

Fifth Grade students created illuminated letters using the first letter of their first name. They wrote a paragraph about themselves to accompany their name.

Second grade students learned about Marc Chagall and multiple points of view. They have drawn their own pictures using multiple points of view and are using crayons to color them in. There is lots of creative thinking happening in these pictures.