end of year odds and ends
School is just about over! I'm cleaning up my computer image files, and finding some images I'd meant to post. Here they are!







Fifth and sixth graders learned iris folding.

Students in all graders enjoy attribute blocks.

Painting:

The drawing center:

Collage:

The fifth graders loved weaving on homemade looms. Some used rulers as a shed holder.

This luscious painting was created by a first grader. She told me, "I'm just seeing how it looks to paint circles softly. Then sometimes I just put the brush on the paper. I'm trying different colors, too."

Here is a side by side of her two paintings. On the right is the rainbow, with a few experimental marks. I asked her if I could display the painting. She looked at both of them and handed me the rainbow. "You can keep this one," she said, "I can make other rainbows, but I don't think I'll ever be able to do one just like this [experimental painting]. My mom will really want to see it." Had I had my own classroom, I'd have shown her some work done by Kandinsky . . .