Kindergarten Up, Up, and Away Colors

Artwork by Rebekah (purple dinosaur)

This was a quick lesson for reviewing our primary colors and how they mix to make the secondary colors.  Kinders drew four overlapping balloons and colored them in the order red, yellow, blue, and red, making sure to leave the overlapping parts uncolored.  Using the color wheel (and what we have already learned during our color mixing lesson in the fall), the students filled in the overlapping balloon parts with the appropriate secondary color.  Then they were free to draw something - anything - that their balloons were carrying away.  One of my favorites was the picture one student drew of her balloons carrying away a...shirt!?

Artwork by Ben (a house above the city)

Artwork by Julian (primary colored ninjas!)

Artwork by Will (a duck-friendly elephant)

Artwork by Lily (Queen Elsa)

Art Show Time!

HES Dolphin Madison Orange shows fellow Dolphin Katee Suson

her beautiful sea turtle at the Orange County School Art Show

The fabulous works of approximately forty HES artists, along with works from many other student artists, are now on display at the downtown Hillsborough library as part of the annual Orange County Schools Art Show.  The show runs through May 3, and I encourage all parents to bring their Dolphins by the library to check out all the wonderful works of art by the County's talented artists!  

Dolphin artwork on display at the 2015 Orange County Schools Art Show

1st Grade Ceramic Turtles

First graders made these cute and colorful turtles by first using a template to cut a shell from a clay slab.  Then they added a head, four legs, and a tail by "scratching and attaching" their pieces together. Using a toothpick, the students inscribed their turtle shells with various designs ranging from realistic shell patterns to hearts and flowers.  After the turtles were fired, the first graders painted them from head to toe with tempura paints, using a smaller brush to for details.