Well, it's that time of year.  Another class of 5th graders is getting ready to spread their wings.  But first a little unstructured fun time! Best of luck and love to all!

Here are some masks that my 3rd graders are working on.  They are made of foil-covered poster board. They are colored with permanent markers...acrylic jewels, ribbons, pipe cleaners, and feathers add some pizzazz.  Enjoy!

It's been quite a week with the Spring Show installed at the Althareta Yeargin Museum at WAIS.  It will be up for the week with late night on Wednesday April 30 from 5 - 7:30. Will post pictures from the show in 2 weeks.
Here are some pics of bowls inspired by American glass-blowing legend Dale Chihuly.  These are a special project that Ms. Perdomo's second graders were selected to make.

This is how they looked when dry (green ware).

They were fired and then students painted them with glazes and they were fired again.

Here's two of them all shiny and finished.

Pretty fabulous if I say so myself!!

Sunflowers

Getting ready for Mother's Day.  We made flowers with pinch pots.  We are glazing them to look like sunflowers.  This is a project for 1st and 2nd grade.  Next we'll be glazing them.

Well it's the week before the holiday break and we've been busy finishing up our projects and wrapping them for the journey home.  I'm going to enjoy the break and will be working on plans for the New Year.So stay tuned!

BFFs

Holiday Houses.  I love to do this lesson because it ties in a few of my favorite things: geometry, geometric shapes, architecture, texture,clay, paint, and of course glitter paint. The geometric terminology has stuck with me, as I passed out "lemon squares" at a recent party and found myself refering to them as "lemon rectangular prisms".   Enjoy!!!

Elizabeth and David



Whoa!!

My kind of house!



Holiday Workshop

Hey there!!  It's been a very busy last month!!  Right before Thanksgiving I went to San Antonio for the Texas Art Education Association Convention.  I had a great time and learned lots of new things to start teaching in January, so stay tuned!

 We finished up class projects to make way for holiday decorations....third grade is finishing up on some Picasso/Cubism-inspired artworks that they started back before the Holiday Play rehearsals began. Here are some of them from today's class.  Above are some first grade students painting on their ceramic ornaments!  So lovely and so much fun!