Art Rocks!

Way to go kindergarten! For this project, we had a nice time creating a winter scene with birch trees and cardinals. As you may know from ye...

One of the coolest new things about our school year is the addition of an aquarium that has trout! The school received the trout eggs earlie...

 I am really excited that a new year of fifth grade art enrichment began this week. It is through this after-school class that I get to kn...

This was a fun one. When I was a child, I was OBSESSED with drawing sunflowers... and I wore a t-shirt with a huge sunflower on it and I do...

Almond Blossoms is one of my very favorite paintings. Vincent van Gogh painted it to hang in his nephews nursery. The flowering branches wer...

I LOVE the wonderfully executed water and the focus on the subject. Last month, my third graders and I discussed the paintings of Americ...

Such rock stars! Here are my 4th graders working on their first project of the year in early September. All grades created mixed media self-...

I just adore my 1st graders. On Friday, with Mrs. Weidman's class,  we had such a nice conversation about a new project we started. The...

I try not to repeat lessons with much frequency from year to year as there is no need. There are a million and one ways to teach the same co...