Fractions are Everywhere!

1st Grade artists connected math with art when they created designs from fraction pieces they cut themselves.  Students practiced making and writing fractions that represented 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8. 

To make lifelike backgrounds, students learned how to blend chalk pastels smoothly or use various line types to add texture.



The Spring Field by Clarissa



How can art show emotion?

After viewing the life-size plaster sculptures of George Segal, fourth grade artists were given the task of making a plaster sculpture that captured a human emotion.  Students created show cards to display their writing alongside their artwork, and this writing explained how the artist used visual clues to portray their chosen emotion.

by Ethan

Klimt Trees of Life



Recycling Tree by Anan



Second grade artists studied the meaning of the tree of life symbol and how it relates to a symbol of a leaning tree that we have at STEM.  One student remarked,

"I think it means that we are learning in a new way at STEM."

  After viewing Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life painting as inspiration, students created their own tree symbol to send a message of how to take care of our Earth.

What are Masks For?

Third grade explored many purposes of masks as they designed their own interpretation of a plaster mask.  Students chose their own materials to add clues that would make viewers guess the purpose of their mask. 

Spanish Dancer mask by Isabel

Earth Day Still Life Flowers

In order to pay tribute to flowers that make our earth so beautiful, Kindergarten artists designed a mixed-media paint and oil pastel background that would show off their bright tissue paper flowers and crafted a vase to display the flowers in with colorful plastic.  They learned that painting objects from life that are not moving is called a still life.

by Marina




 

by Jacob