1st grade dinosaurs

We study DINOSAURS!  Always a favorite.  We read the book "Dad's Dinosaur Day" by author Diane Hearn.  (It's a wonderful story with amazing illistrations.)  We created wearable art by making dinosaur hats.

More cupcakes

Springfield Discovery Center Art Show

Bingham and Pershing Elementary are having an art show at the Springfield Discovery Center. 
March 13th - April 1st.

2nd and 3rd grade 3D Cupcakes

We studied careers that involve art and food: chef, baker, cake decorator, food artist. We used this knowledge to creat realistic 3D cupcakes. The students LOVED this project and the cupcakes look amazing!

Kindergarten and 1st grade Cupcake Creations

We studied careers that require art skills:  chef, baker, cake decorator, food artist....  We used this knowledge to create or own unique cupcake creations.  They look yummy!!!

Igloo.... enough said!

The finished product.

4th 3-D Shoes

One 4th grade class is working on building fully function shoes using papier-mâché and paper strips. It's a challenge, but they are persevering through it. We’re only in the beginning stages, but the students are already discovering it’s tougher than it looks. The objective is to create a REAL shoe. They will be graded on the durability of their shoe by wearing their creation and walking down the hallway and back without the shoe falling apart.

Igloo Update

The all-school Igloo is coming along.  My guess is we need about 150 more milk jugs!

All School Igloo

We've been working hard at collecting milk jugs in order to construct an igloo. The students have been bringing in jugs for the past two year! Our goal is to have the igloo completed by Valentine's Day.

5th grade Aboriginal Art

We studied art of the Aboriginal culture. We researched the history behind Aboriginal art and created our own Aborigine-inspired art using indigenous Australian animals.

Underwater World

The first graders are working on creating unique underwater scenes.  We are drawing in black crayon them unsing watercolor pait to creat an "underwater" look. 

4th grade portraits: United States Presidents

Each year the 4th graders study the Presidents of the United States.  They are allowed to select one president to create a bust portriat of.  They must also research their president outside of class and come up with three interesting facts about his presidency.

This year I have challenged the 4th grader and myself.  I have set a goal to for myself to memorize all of the presidents in order before this project comes to a close.  The class quizzed me today and I got 39 out of 44 correct... just a little more studying!

Sunsets

We created desert sunset using tempra cakes, watercolor paper, and silhouettes.  They turned out to be lots of fun and a beautiful scene hanging in our halways.

Surrealism:  We studies the art of surrealism.  We combined 13 different objects that had nothing in common with one another and put them into one piece of art.  The objective was to make art that is like a dream.