For our open house this year, each of our classes focused on a book to weave throughout their learning this month. Here are the books and their lessons.
PreK 3 - Dr. Seuss - students made the Cat in the Hat as well as Thing 1 and Thing 2 using paint sticks and collage.
PreK 4 - Pete the Cat - students made a torn paper Pete the Cat and a Pete the Cat Puppet using paint sticks and practicing their cutting.
Kindergarten - A Pen Pal for Max by Gloria Rand - students made Chilean Tree Frogs using marker painting and collage to represent the home country of their story's main character
1st Grade - Sunset of the Sabertooth by Mary Pope Osborne - students drew Wooly Mammoths and painted them with both watercolors and tempera paints.
2nd Grade - If I Built A House by Chris Van Dusen - students drew an adobe house in the southwest and added color using chalk pastels.
3rd Grade - The Curious Garden by Peter Brown - students made a "Window into Winter" to represent the portion of the book where the young man's garden was covered under the winter snow.
4th Grade - Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith - students created collage designs using "entire" circles cut into equivalent fractional pieces.
5th Grade - Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner - students created an ecosystem centered around a fresh water pond landscape
6th Grade - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - students created Grecian style "marble" busts using oil and chalk pastels focusing on symmetry and pattern.
7th Grade - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - students studied artist Wayne Thiebaud and his Pop Art patterns to create painted cakes to represent the bakery in the story.
8th Grade - Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum - students created the Field of Poppies scene from the story using paint sticks, watercolors and perspective.
