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4th Grade Light house Fun

This year, our 4th graders explored the unique purpose and architecture of North Carolina's iconic Light houses. They use Google Maps to tour each light house location and selected one of these landmarks as the inspiration for their clay project. We had a blast sculpting each light house in a low relief clay tile. They carefully painted their clay to resemble their inspiration. They were so proud!

At the end of the project, they wrapped their tiles carefully to prepare them for transport home. I always enjoy reading their artist reflection at the end of the projects! They enjoyed explaining their connection to their light house choice. Some wrote about family trips, background knowledge of the structures history, or just an aesthetic connection to it's patterns... I love seeing them connect!

Using inspiration from Georgia O'Keeffe, our 3rd graders created awesome clay flowers. The kiddos were so excited to wrap them up and take them home!

Spring is surely in FULL bloom in the Art Room!

After being inspired by the beautiful flower painting of Georgia O'Keeffe, our 3rd graders studied silk flower and drew up plans for their clay creations.

All loaded up in the kiln and ready to fire!

While we did model the structure of our clay flower to resemble real flowers, we did cut loose and get creative with the colors!

2nd Grade

Chinese New Year

Clay Dragons

To help bring in the New Year, our 2nd graders have created clay dragons! We compared the similarities and differences between the symbols and traditions of the Chinese New Year celebrations and our own. We learned that, in China, the dragon is a symbol good luck, wisdom, and strength for the new year. We looked at how the traditional Chinese Dragon has different characteristics than the traditional dragons in our western fairy tales. These 2nd grade sculptors did a grade job!