This week we created door hangers with our name from card board and tissue papers. Some kids created cardboard projects.
Fall
This week we created beaded pipe cleaner – inidian corn and other fall themed creations. We will continue to work on beaded pipe cleaner projects next week. We were sad to miss our electrons friends that were sick and we
Apples
We began the class with a reading of 10 Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss. Then we set up red, green, and brown paint and invited the children to use apples cut in half as stamps and create apples
3
In our last class we talked about 3 things to think about when taking photos. 1. When is permission appropriate vs. documentation. 2. The difference between horizontal and vertical. And how it changes the story of your photos. 3. The
Museum
Crayon class session 2. Students were asked to vote for which piece from the previous class they felt was most suitable to hang in a museum. Overwhelmingly they chose option 2, a drawing of a water tower. The main difference
Crayon
We started the crayon drawing class. Students were asked to draw something, anything, with crayons. All the students did what was asked. Magdelena introduced her idea also, and asked the students to start collecting things for a portrait project that
Focus and Exposure
This week we talked about how important a foundation is when learning anything. Most of the kids worked on practicing with focus and exposure. A few kids continued working on family portraits for our bulletin board.
Native American’s Day
For our first art project of the new session, we talked about Native Americans’ Day which was celebrated Friday, Sept 27 in some parts of the country. We discussed that all tribes are unique with unique cultures, beliefs, and histories.
Portraits
On our first day of Electrons Art, we started an investigation of portraits. We looked into the creative artist Hanoch Piven, a collage artist that creates portraits made of household objects. We created portraits and other artistic creations that were
Photography
Today we looked at two bodies of work by photographer Whitney Bradshaw. http://whitneybradshaw.com/ We also talked about how we would like to proceed with this photography class. Lastly the kids split themselves up into groups to complete the task of