SPRING ARTS SHOWCASE!!!

SPRING ARTS SHOWCASE

ORCHARD GARDENS PILOT SCHOOL 

THURSDAY, May 25th 

5:00-7:00pm

Come walk the corridors,

view the amazing student art work, 

and stay to enjoy performances from 

music, dance and theater!

K0-K2 Strand Hungry Caterpillar 

1st grade Chalk Robots

2nd grade Laurel Birch Line & Patterns Cats

3rd grade Monet Landscapes  

3rd Grade Mixed Media Owl Biomes

5th grade Sumi Ink Exploration

Middle School Strand Russian Nesting Dolls

6th grade Folk Art Landscapes

6th grade Egyptian Profiles

7th grade London Postcards

Middle School Elective Modigliani Portraits

Radial Dream Catchers

The other night, I stumbled upon this amazing smART art blog and was able to gather some ideas for all my students.  The first project that caught my attention was a dream catcher with radial symmetry.

As a class, we discussed the following vocabulary words:

Vocabulary
Radial Symmetry
Dream Catcher

Students got busy creating 6-7 circles on their paper.  Since I lack enough compasses for the whole class to use, students traced circles to get their dream catcher started.  From there, student used designs - letters, shapes, patterns - to fill in their circles.  The concept of radial symmetry is simple, choose a shape and repeat along the edge of the circle until the pattern meets again.

Tree Sculptures

Spring time in New England has begun.  The trees are ready to burst yet visually, their limbs still expose the reality of the previous season.  My middle school students were given the task of creating their own spring tree by up-cycling branches and using yarn, tissue paper and a whole lot of critical thinking to get this project started.  Here's what the first class looked like:

More pictures to come as the project gets rolling.  Next steps, adding butterflies, leaves, and photos!