Read about it below or click here to jump straight to the classroom & printable downloads. ******************************************************************** Hi, Friends! In preparation for our new class – BRAVE MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS – we held a Mother-Daughter Day Camp here at the clubhouse. It was a beautiful 2 days with many of our friends and their daughters. We loved …

Art. It's what we do.

2nd grade cubism-oil pastels

Self portrait hand prints - dewestudio lesson

Sometimes I like to bring to you more involved crafts, like when I turned my children’s photos into interchangeable blocks. I also loved turning my kids into their own magnet dolls. Apparently I like to manipulate my children’s images. I’ve done the same things in this craft. From where did this vision come? The principal...Read More

I always like to start the year with a review of lines. Every grade level does a project that reintroduces all the different ways to make lines. By 4th and 5th grade, we are ready to turn those lines into something really amazing! These projects are partially inspired by the many "zentangle" lessons out there, but I don't actually teach the zentangle method. I have the students start with a line pattern and then fill it with doodles. We focused on contrast-making some areas dark, and some…

Building block body sculptures

Minecraft Selfies - 5th grade

A day in the life of an urban art teacher!

Je suis content, vienne la pluie, vienne le vent, qu'importe! moi je suis content, du bon temps et du mauvais temps, content de vivre tout simplement, de me dire comme un enfant: "comme je suis content !"sans savoir pourquoi maintenant je le répète si souvent.

"Superhero portraits"

In this “classic” Calvert project, sixth graders first learned about the history of tessellations (and artist M.C. Escher, who is famous for his unique tessellations like the one pictured here) before creating one of their own. Tessellations, which have been around for thousands of years, are a special kind of pattern/design made from repeating shapes called polygons (closed shapes with three or more sides). In tessellation designs, congruent polygons fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces…

"I am" statements for beginning of year - I like adding pic of student looking up at statements!

While some of you lucky ducks are already on summer vacation some of us are still plugging away!!!

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