Art classes this
year kept extremely busy with upper classes creating unique clay sculptures or
clay pots. First through third grades painted clay pots for Mother's Day. They
also spent an art class outside potting dirt and burying seeds in their lovely art
pieces. Kinders spent a lot
of energy cutting out hearts out of clay to create a gift for their
mothers or some special in their life. Students learned a lot about the nature
of clay or simply the nature of nature through all of these projects. Clay
while quite fun to work sometimes will break when drying or delicate pieces can
break when being handled while painting. Seeds sometimes without the right
amount of water and light might not grow. Some of our students learned these
lessons first hand. I tried to make sure my students know that sometimes these
things happened. All we can do sometimes in these instances is take the
information we learned and apply it to future explorations in art and
nature.
The school year is
over now for the summer; however surprises await because I plan to add more to
the blog over the summer. Stay tuned for more art related news when you and the
kids feels it is too hot to enjoy the great outdoors.
Signing off for
now,
Miss. Damore
