These are a brand new addition to our art choices: Keva planks. The students LOVE them. They are simple planks, that follow the fibonacci sequence . . . students can make all sorts of structures. We have 200 now, and I'm hoping to buy more soon.

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the beauty of student directed artwork

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is that they come up with ideas and creations that I would never think of. This first grader was simply creating, and decided that this was a butterfly. Do you see the symmetry?

watercolor crayons

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First graders were introduced to water soluble media

"I put glue and paper on. Lots of it. I really like the colorful paper."

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"I spent the whole class time

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working on this. It's name is colorful sculpture. I don't know what it is, but it was hard to make!"

~first grader

sixth graders

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"It's an ICU for pencils. You see, I'm emotionally attached to my pencils, and when they break, I HAVE to fix them!"

first graders . . .

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were excited to use slits to construct cardboard towers.

"These are all superheros. And they're friends!"

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kindergarten collage work