from the Artists Workshop
                                                                 STEAM !!!!

Gearing Up   

When you visit the school to shop the book fair or to meet with a teacher, you will find the walls near the ramp going to fifth grade or kindergarten and the walls near the library have been decorated with some interesting art. These are the gears all the students have decorated, cut out, glued to another piece of oaktag and cutout again. They do spin and some even will turn their neighbors. I know they will be touched, please be careful. Some have designs, some have favorite imagery and some have abstract coloring. Together they make  fabulous, magical machines.

GEARS! GEARS! GEARS!                               STEAM
In keeping with the year's theme we've been doing art on a gear shaped canvas using paint or

sharpies . This project has included cutting and pasting! After the gears have been cut out and laminated, they will be arranged as a single machine and hung for display in the hall. These  machines will be up during the May parent conferences and  book fair.

As part of this project art classes have been building with blocks and gears. Working in 3-d is always fun. Some classes have been sketching the sculptures. Another art word we have been using is perspective.

Here are some structures built by the 5th graders