Back to Drawing!! Grades 1-5

We are back in school! Our first project was decorating the cover to our sketchbook. This year's group colors are orange, purple and green. Every class had the same guidelines of wavy line in middle, box on the wavy line, sun by their name as well of a zig-zag line, spirals and other shapes. Even with the same guidelines, everyone's unique style shined through!!
On the back side they had option of free draw and writing their name in different styles. Here are some of my favorites:

Sketchbook Covers by Avionne, Caiya, Sereniti, and Jaren
Sketchbook Covers by Kamaree and Carson
Sketchbook Covers by Jherrone and Marion
Free Draws by Joseph and Andre
Sketchbook Covers and Free Draws by James, Noah, Bianca, and Mikayla
Sketchbook Covers by Marquis, ChynaC
Sketchbook Covers by Shaionta and Amillion

What mood are you in today?

After reading "Glad Monster, Sad Monster" the K-2nd graders made their own mood monsters. You should be able to tell how their mood monsters are feeling depending on its color. When you see a blue painting does it make you more sad than a painting with bright yellow colors? When Pablo Picasso was really sad he painting only with blue colors! When Miss Reardon gets mad does her face turn red ?! ;-) Colors can show different moods.

Artwork by Joseph B and Kayla W
Artwork by Reggie

Artwork by Jherrone and Heaven

Artwork by Robert and Nygel

Artwork by Eddie, Daion, and Chyna

Artwork by Briannah, Eron, and Latricia

Max and the Wild Things come to Fernwood

The Lower Grades read the book "Where the Wild Things Are" in celebration of the movie coming out in theaters. They made a collage of their own Wild Thing. They learned how to draw stripes and feathers, and their Wild Things rolled their terrible yellow eyes, showed their terrible claws, and mashed their terrible teeth. I dressed up as Max on Halloween...I make a great Max, don't I! I learned my mischievous smile from my students :-)