Kinder Snowmen

Kindergarteners are also making some clay snowmen! We are using white ceramic clay. When they are finished, we will paint them. Snowmen should be coming home right around the end of February!!

SECOND QUARTER: SNOWPEOPLE CLAY RATTLES! 4th, 5th, and Upper El. Montessori classes

Students have designed creative snowpeople that will be transformed into clay rattles.
These little guys are not only cool, but useful as well! The bodies, which are the rattle part, are being constructed this week, and next week, the transformation to snow dude (or dudette) will be complete!

SECOND QUARTER: Inuit Art and Magic Owls: 2nd, 3rd, and Lower El. Montessori Classes

Our study of North American Indian art is taking us to a very cold place (yes, even colder than Holland, Michigan!)--BAFFIN ISLAND, a large island that is northeast of Hudson Bay, and almost to the Arctic Circle.
There, many Inuit Indians make beautiful works of art in their fine traditions of soapstone carving, drawing and printmaking. Our Star Artist, Kenojuak Ashevak, was born in an igloo, and through the years, besides having fourteen children, became one of the area's most well-known artists. Students are inspired by her magical owls to create their own.

FIRST GRADERS MAKE SPACE BUGS!!!

Wow! Take a look at these weird insects! First graders are doing just that in art class--and using them as inspiration for some very weird "Space Bugs"! We are constructing these bugs out of paper and other materials.