Art: Triangles Everywhere

We started out the year making a mess...on paper.  The girls used crayons, oil pastels, colored pencils, markers, and water colors to "cover the page". They covered three pages - different sizes and different textured papers.  Then, inspired by the work of Lecia Dole-Recio, they made triangle compositions.  All the girls in the Lower School did this unit... each student's individual style, perspective, and problem solving strategies are unique and the whole body of work demonstrates our creative diversity!

Art: Play with Clay Day

The girls were very excited to discover the physical properties and possibilities with clay. It's cold, it's wet, it's gray, it is smooth, it makes my hands dusty... were some of their comments. Then, when we talked about what you can do with it, they said: break, pinch,  poke,  twist, slam, and roll. We named the list: "Things you can do with clay that you can not do on the playground."  After a few minutes of exploration, the girls were given a challenge to address texture and form.  Could they make a smooth place, a bumpy place, a piece that stands up and a place that holds water.  Here are some of the ways they discovered...